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Quiet year for asylum and citizenship in Albania

Quiet year for asylum and citizenship in Albania

Albania registered a steep decline in asylum requests in 2024, with just 104 applications, down from 261 the year before. Most asylum seekers originated from Afghanistan (27.9%), Syria (17.3%), and Pakistan (10.6%). More than half of all...

Albania’s ‘Lads of London’ Create Bigger Problems for Their Home Country

Albania’s ‘Lads of London’ Create Bigger Problems for Their Home Country

A dry season, newswise, from the Balkans, has been filled a bit over the last week by a series of posts on X exchanged between British far-right leader Nigel Farage and Albanian MP Edi Rama over the level of criminality among Albanians living in...

Lessons Albania Can Teach the World

Lessons Albania Can Teach the World

Dr Khaled El-Enany, former minister of Tourism and Antiquities in Egypt and candidate of Egypt, the League of Arab States and the African Union for the post of Director -General of UNESCO, visited the Albanian capital as part of his campaign for...

Customs corruption ring at border crossing with Albania dismantled

Customs corruption ring at border crossing with Albania dismantled

NEWS [InTime News] Thirteen customs officials – including the supervisor – stationed at the Mavromati border crossing to Albania have appeared before an investigating magistrate following their arrest by the police’s internal affairs division. The...

Bankers Petroleum Albania Ltd Evaded Taxes by Declaring Losses for 20 Years; Fier Prosecution Issues 14 Precautionary Measures

Bankers Petroleum Albania Ltd Evaded Taxes by Declaring Losses for 20 Years; Fier Prosecution Issues 14 Precautionary Measures

Fier Prosecution has issued 14 precautionary measures against Bankers Petroleum Albania Ltd, accused for “Creation of fraudulent schemes regarding value added tax,” “Concealment of income,” “Laundering the proceeds of criminal offense or criminal...

Albania evacuates citizens from Iran amid strained ties

Albania evacuates citizens from Iran amid strained ties

TIRANA, July 1 – Albania has evacuated a family of five from Iran, despite having no diplomatic relations with Tehran, Foreign Minister Igli Hasani confirmed in a televised interview. Hasani told Top Channel the operation was completed five days...

The not-so-affordable housing in the Balkans

The not-so-affordable housing in the Balkans

For the past seven years, Dejana Stosic, a 26-year-old, has been renting in Serbia’s capital after relocating from a small town in the south of the country. Stostic recently found a job with a higher salary as a coordinator at a private company in...

The Sordid History of Offshoring Migrants

The Sordid History of Offshoring Migrants

Just weeks into Donald Trump’s second presidency, the Department of Homeland Security began sending immigrants living in the United States to prisons in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Panama and to the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. At the...

Albanian Parliament Speaker Elisa Spiropali Lays Wreath at Monument to Unknown Soldier in Sofia

Albanian Parliament Speaker Elisa Spiropali Lays Wreath at Monument to Unknown Soldier in Sofia

Albanian Parliament Speaker Elisa Spiropali Thursday laid a wreath at the Monument to the Unknown Soldier in central Sofia. The ceremony is part of her two-day visit at the invitation of National Assembly Chair Nataliya Kiselova. The two...

Albania’s manufacturing sector faces fresh job cuts

Albania’s manufacturing sector faces fresh job cuts

Albania’s garment and footwear industry faces new factory closures and layoffs after summer, driven by falling orders, euro depreciation, and rising costs, industry leaders warned. Edvin Prençe, head of ProEksport Albania, said the sector employs...

Tourism lifts Albania’s fuel and beer sales

Tourism lifts Albania’s fuel and beer sales

A surge in tourist arrivals is boosting consumption of excise goods in Albania, including fuel, beer, cigarettes, and coffee, according to customs data for the first half of 2025. Fuel use hit a record 357,000 tonnes, up 14% year-on-year, driven...

Armenia, Azerbaijan leaders meet for peace negotiations in UAE

Armenia, Azerbaijan leaders meet for peace negotiations in UAE

The meeting in Abu Dhabi on Thursday between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, confirmed by both their governments, comes after the two countries finalised a draft peace deal in March. The South...

Armenia, Azerbaijan hold ‘constructive’ peace talks in UAE

Armenia, Azerbaijan hold ‘constructive’ peace talks in UAE

ABU DHABI The crucial meeting between Azerbaijani President İlham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in the United Arab Emirates took place in a “constructive atmosphere,” diplomatic sources from Baku informed on July 10. Held in...

The former CNA director, appointed to the Vetting Commission

The former CNA director, appointed to the Vetting Commission

0 The former director of the National Anti-Corruption Center, Iulian Rusu, has been appointed as a member of the Commission for the external evaluation of the ethical and financial integrity of judges and candidates for the position of judge at...

America Has Never Seen Corruption Like This

America Has Never Seen Corruption Like This

The White House has seen its share of shady deals. Ulysses S. Grant’s brother-in-law used his family ties to engineer an insider-trading scheme that tanked the gold market. Warren Harding’s secretary of the interior secretly leased land to oil...

Albania sees strong deposit and lending growth

Albania sees strong deposit and lending growth

Deposits in both the lek and euro have surged in Albania, according to Bank of Albania data as of the end of May. Lek-denominated savings reached 645 billion leks, rising by 5 billion from April, largely driven by businesses but significantly...

Albania’s anti-corruption office probes DP’s $6M US lobbying deal

Albania’s anti-corruption office probes DP’s $6M US lobbying deal

Albania’s anti-corruption office has opened a criminal investigation into the Democratic Party’s (DP) $6 million lobbying contract with a Washington-based consulting firm. Signed on April 4, 2025, the contract was brokered through the “Make...

Bankers Petroleum Albania Ltd Evaded Taxes by Declaring Losses for 20 Years; Fier Prosecution Issues 14 Precautionary Measures, Executes 9, Declares 5 Wanted

Bankers Petroleum Albania Ltd Evaded Taxes by Declaring Losses for 20 Years; Fier Prosecution Issues 14 Precautionary Measures, Executes 9, Declares 5 Wanted

Fier Prosecution issued 14 precautionary measures against Bankers Petroleum Albania Ltd, accused for “Creation of fraudulent schemes regarding value added tax,” “Concealment of income,” “Laundering the proceeds of criminal offense or criminal...

Moldova and Albania Share Best Practices in the EU Accession Process

Moldova and Albania Share Best Practices in the EU Accession Process

Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Cristina Gherasimov discussed the stages of EU accession negotiations and best practices for European integration with Albania’s Ambassador to the European Union, Ferit Hoxha, during a recent meeting...

Opposition leader calls Albania 'Europe’s first narco-state' at OSCE

Opposition leader calls Albania 'Europe’s first narco-state' at OSCE

TIRANA, July 3 — Albanian opposition leader Sali Berisha told the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and members of the European People’s Party (EPP) that Albania has become “Europe’s first and only narco-state,” accusing the government of systemic...

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