para 7 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...
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 9 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 10 orë - Scan TV
Prime Minister Edi Rama has announced a change in the leadership of the Ministry of Interior. Besfort Lamallari will be leaving the ministry, and Ervin Demo, who has until now held the position of minister...
para 13 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 23 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...
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 një dite - 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...
Brussels is preparing a new law to crack down on non-compliant imports, as part of a broader effort to limit the entry of illegal Chinese products into the EU market. The draft proposal also includes liability...
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)...
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,...
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....
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...
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
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 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...
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...
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...
A new technology project of Albanian origin is seeking to establish a presence in the European artificial intelligence market. “Lumi” is a platform developed by Clirim Uskana and his team at the technology...
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...
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...
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...
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...
para 2 dite - Albeu
The citizen march from Skanderbeg Square toward the Prime Minister’s Office continues amid chants of “Albania is making a revolution” and “Arrest Rama and Balluku.” Carrying national flags, the protesters...
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....
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 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...
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....
