para 6 orë - Albanian Daily News
US President Donald Trump says he would offer every adult American a $5,000 (£3,700) payout if Republicans win both chambers of Congress in November's midterm elections - a plan that would cost more than...
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Europol has supported an international operation targeting a criminal network linked to the Italian mafia-type organisation Camorra. The operation, coordinated by the Baden-Württemberg State Criminal Police...
The inflation rate reached 3.2% in August 2026, up from 2.3% in the same month last year, while compared to July, consumer prices increased by 0.1%. Compared to August 2025, the largest price increase...
A dispute over the payment of magistrates’ salaries has triggered a wave of work stoppages at courts across Albania, with judges challenging the situation before the country’s Administrative Court. The...
Democratic Party lawmaker Luan Baçi appeared before Albania’s Special Prosecution Against Corruption and Organized Crime (SPAK) on Friday morning in connection with a complaint filed by his former business...
Prime Minister Edi Rama has responded to the criminal complaint filed with Albania’s Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPAK) against Finance Minister Petrit Malaj over the non-payment of magistrates’ salaries...
A plane carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was delayed by a Russian drone as he prepared to fly to attend a state funeral in Oslo, Moldovan and Norwegian authorities say. Zelensky and his...
para 8 orë - Tirana Examiner
Serbia’s ruling party set out its position on Mladić the day after he died. Ten days later the president of France received the man at the centre of its system. Drizan Shala (Security Desk) On 28 August,...
The Constitutional Court gave parliament a duty and the magistrates a fallback. The Judicial Council took a power the judgment gave to no one, and its supporters asked a prosecutor to punish the officials...
The Constitution did not create a power above the powers. A decade of guardianship around the justice reform helped produce one, and on Thursday 271 judges invited its foreign guardians to enforce the...
para 11 orë - Tirana Examiner
Tirana Examiner Newsroom Tirana Examiner’s own political and diplomatic commentator Albatros Rexhaj was the studio guest on ABC Albania’s late-night prime-time news on the evening Prime Minister Edi Rama...
para 22 orë - Albanian Daily News
Finance Minister Petrit Malaj has defended the Ministry of Finance’s decision to block additional salary payments requested for judges and prosecutors, days after a criminal complaint was filed with the...
The Bank of Albania and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) organized on Tuesday the launch ceremony of the “WE Finance Code Albania – Code for Financing Women Entrepreneurs”, marking...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has clashed with AfD leader Alice Weidel in parliament, calling her party a "destructive force" with a migration policy that amounts to "ethnic cleansing" for skilled workers....
para 24 orë - Albanian Daily News
In February 2025, Albanian prosecutors arrested Erion Veliaj, the three-term mayor of Tirana. Eighteen months later, he is still in jail. He has not been convicted of anything. His detention has simply...
para një dite - Scan TV
Judges and prosecutors are demanding 40 million euros in additional salaries per year. For the Minister of Finance, Petrit Malaj, this is a very high burden on the budget. The head of the Finance Department...
Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Ferit Hoxha announced on the social network X the establishment of direct flights between Luxembourg and Tirana through the company Luxair. The Minister considered...
para një dite - Tirana Examiner
Editorial Board The Prime Minister spent Wednesday arguing with a party that holds ten seats in a parliament of seven hundred and twenty. Two posts, two videos, a Latin proverb from his grandmother, a...
Ana Brnabić has placed a demonstration for men presumed innocent beside state honours for a man finally convicted of genocide. Her argument depends on treating those as the same thing. By Ardit Rada (Tirana)...
para një dite - Albanian Daily News
Europol has supported a major operation against a criminal network suspected of trafficking horses across Europe using falsified documents and manipulated microchips to conceal the animals’ true identities....
Albanian magistrates have filed a criminal complaint with the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPAK) over the failure to pay their August salaries under a new pay formula, naming Finance Minister Petrit Malaj,...
New programme focuses on human capital, inclusive economic transformation, governance, environmental sustainability and human rights to support Albania’s EU accession and sustainable development ambitions....
As 271 judges gathered in an extraordinary meeting at the Justice Pole to demand implementation of a Constitutional Court ruling on judicial salaries, Albania’s Justice Minister Toni Gogu faced questions...
The Albanian Development Fund (ADF) said on Tuesday it has launched a tender for the renovation of Tirana's Mother Teresa square and construction of an underground parking facility with a total estimated...
During the month of August, 651 taxpayers benefited from the automatic forgiveness of tax liabilities, with a total value of 1.95 million euros. The news was announced by the General Directorate of Taxes,...
Twenty persons have been remanded in custody at the request of the Saranda Prosecution Office, accused of the criminal offence of production and sale of narcotics. The investigation into criminal proceeding...
para një dite - Albeu
Traffic on state roads is moving without obstacles, while roads are dry, according to LAMM. Outside urban areas, vehicle flow has increased. At border crossing points on the Macedonian side, both for entry...
A possible race for the future leadership of the Democratic League of Kosovo is being accompanied by stances and proposals that have opened a debate on the party’s future direction. Avdullah Hoti has proposed...
The Ministry of Finance and the French Development Agency (AFD) have signed an agreement to finance the rehabilitation of the sewage network and improve wastewater treatment in the city of Durrës. The...
The Special Court will hear closing statements in the case against Hashim Thaçi and the others, which concerns charges related to the administration of justice. The Kosovo Specialist Chambers announced...
A ferry caught fire on Wednesday in waters near Palawan in the Philippines, killing at least five people, while 87 others remain missing. The figures were released by the Philippine Coast Guard and reported...
This Thursday, citizens are expected to gather again in front of the Prime Minister’s Office, marking the 103rd day of protest against the government. The rally follows yesterday’s protest, which also...
Drizan Shala , Security Desk Major General Jasper Jeffers, commander of the International Stabilization Force for Gaza, was received in Tirana on Tuesday by Ferit Hoxha at the foreign ministry and then...
The Black Sea is facing a newly designated high-risk area following a Ukrainian strike on military and energy infrastructure at the Russian port of Novorossiysk. EOS Marine issued a maritime security alert...
International diplomacy could bring Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping together at a single summit. According to media reports, the Kremlin has announced that the possibility of a trilateral meeting...
Martin Rolfe, Nats’ chief executive, has been tasked with submitting within a week a report on the technical fault that caused major disruption to British air traffic and led to the cancellation of nearly...
A technical failure in the flight processing system of Nats, the company responsible for air traffic control in the United Kingdom, occurred around 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday and paralyzed some of the country’s...
Deputy Fitore Pacolli announced that another inspection was carried out today at the “Dukagjini Lake” restaurant after the order issued by the Ministry of Environment’s Inspectorate to immediately halt...
After the massive and illegal arrival of migrants from Morocco at the end of July, the European Union today granted Spain emergency aid of around 115 million euros for managing the crisis in the Ceuta...
Following the speeches held in front of the Prime Minister’s Office, the protest has taken a different turn, with citizens beginning to march along Tirana’s boulevards. As they moved, protesters halted...
Dejan Jovanov Deko, the owner of the Pulse nightclub in Kočani, where a tragic fire caused the deaths of 63 people, is expected to be released from pretrial detention in less than a month. The news was...
Acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti said that Kosovo’s relationship with the United States remains a special and stable alliance. In a Facebook post, he said cooperation with the US would expand further...
Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Kosovo (CBK) Ahmet Ismaili held a meeting with the Ambassador of the Republic of Albania to Kosovo, Petrit Malaj, focusing on developments in the financial...
The price of oil has risen above $100 per barrel, as the escalation of the conflict near the Strait of Hormuz has heightened fears over global energy supplies. Iran said it had attacked 10 vessels in the...
The protest by 102 citizens against the government of Prime Minister Edi Rama is taking place today, September 9. During the gathering, one of the protesters declared that the country is being looted by...
Patos Municipality held a public hearing with citizens on Wednesday afternoon as part of consultations on the new administrative-territorial reform, which envisages the merger of Patos with Fier Municipality....
The chairman of the Democratic League of Kosovo, Lumir Abdixhiku, held a meeting today with a delegation of 14 representatives from the United States Senate and House of Representatives, who are part of...
The chairman of the Democratic League of Kosovo, Lumir Abdixhiku, held a meeting today with a delegation of 14 representatives from the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States. The delegation...
Kosovo’s caretaker Prime Minister Albin Kurti held a meeting today with Switzerland’s new ambassador to Kosovo, Anne-Lise Cattin Hennin. During the meeting, Kurti welcomed the ambassador and wished her...
Socialist Party MP Erion Braçe said this Wednesday in an interview with Mirela Milori on Euronews Albania that the incident a day earlier, in which several protesters followed and insulted MP Iris Luarasi,...
Gazment Bardhi, head of the Democratic Party’s Parliamentary Group, has reacted to the expansion of SPAK’s allegations against Belinda Balluku, reiterating his call for her parliamentary immunity to be...
para 2 dite - Albeu
“Bringing the state closer to citizens” was the message with which the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Ferit Hoxha, presented the new mechanism for citizens to evaluate consular services. Starting...
para një dite - Tirana Times
Tirana Times, September 09, 2026 — Albania’s Special Prosecution Office Against Corruption and Organized Crime has uncovered new evidence in its widening investigation of former Deputy Prime Minister Belinda...
The Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPAK) has seized a villa in the Green Coast complex in Palasë as part of its ongoing investigation into former Infrastructure and Energy Minister Belinda Balluku. According...
Around Euro 140 million is the value of the fiscal cost was saved by taxpayers through the real estate revaluation process during the period March-August 2026. According to data published on Monday by...
Klevis Qose, Director General of Albania’s Police Oversight Agency, met with Paolo Zampolli, the United States President’s Special Envoy for Global Partnerships, to discuss bilateral relations and cooperation...
Albania enters the second half of the 2020s as one of Europe's faster-growing economies, but international financial institutions flag several risks that could weigh on that trajectory over the next five...
When a judge earns ten times what a police chief earns and twelve times what a teacher earns, the argument has stopped being about judicial independence. It is about a caste the state itself is minting....
The telephone call scheduled for today, September 9, between German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and US President Donald Trump has been postponed at the request of the German side. The decision was announced...
The retrial that reinstated the conviction of Pal Lekaj in the case known as the “53-million case” has reopened the debate over how public money is managed in Kosovo. Beyond responsibility for the specific...
The Special Prosecutor’s Office has published new information concerning the investigation into former Minister of Infrastructure and Energy Belinda Balluku. According to SPAK, investigative actions have...
