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Albanian dictator’s fortress-like palace becomes ‘hub for artistic experimentation’
The Art Newspaper
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June 9, 2025
Vila 31, a Brutalist compound in the Albanian capital Tirana, was once home to Enver Hoxha—the hardline communist who ruled for more than four decades. Long after his death, the site was a symbol of exclusion, isolation and repression. Now the Art...
GRETA report: Albania makes progress on human trafficking
Gazeta Tema
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June 17, 2025
A Council of Europe report welcomes Albania’s progress against human trafficking but calls for stronger victim protections, child safeguards, and legal remedies. STRASBOURG, June 17 (TemA) – The Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in...
OECD Report: Workforce Skills in Albania Far Below EU Standards
Euronews Albania
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June 16, 2025
A recent OECD report highlights significant challenges in Albania’s labor market, with one of the main issues being the lack of adequate skills—far below those in European Union countries. Although Albania is committed to meeting its EU accession...
University of Library Studies and Information Technologies Has 79 Foreign Students
Bulgarian News Agency
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Seventy-nine foreigners study at the University of Library Studies and Information Technologies (UniBIT) in Sofia, one is from a European Union country, the educational institution told BTA. Students from different countries choose the university...
INTERVIEW: Western Balkans attract tech and services FDI as manufacturing outlook dims
BNE Intellinews
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Export-oriented manufacturing in the Western Balkans, particularly in Serbia and North Macedonia, has been a success story in recent years, drawing substantial foreign investment into industrial sectors closely integrated with European value...
Bulgaria Will Continue to Support Albania's European Integration, President Radev Says in Tirana
Bulgarian News Agency
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Bulgaria will continue to support the European integration of Albania, which proves that it can successfully implement reforms for the sake of the European future of the region, President Rumen Radev said at a meeting with his Albanian...
Albania and Serbia face off in tense qualifier
Gazeta Tema
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June 7, 2025
TIRANA, 7 June 2025 - Albania and Serbia meet tonight in Tirana in their first World Cup qualifier clash since 2015, with tight security and no visiting fans amid lingering political tensions. The match, part of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers for...
Albania and Serbia face each other in a World Cup qualifier that’s about more than just football
The Independent
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June 6, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Albania vs Serbia Prediction and Betting Tips | June 7th 2025
Sportskeeda
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June 5, 2025
Albania will face Serbia at the Arena Kombëtare on Saturday in another round of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. The home side have had a mixed start to their qualifying campaign and now sit second in Group K with three points from an...
The Fantasy of a Grand Bargain Between America and China
Foreign Affairs
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July 3, 2025
Hope springs eternal in the world of great-power diplomacy. Even today, in the throes of a norm-busting trade war with China, there is talk of some kind of leader-to-leader grand bargain between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese...
Backpacking the Balkans, Part II
Sandpoint Reader - Idaho
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June 30, 2025
By Ben Olson Reader Staff In the first installment of this travelogue, my partner Cadie and I had just completed the arduous hike through the Accursed Mountains in northern Albania, arriving in the beautiful village of Theth. The day after our...
How TVALB Became a Cultural Bridge for the Albanian Diaspora in North America
The Santa Clarita Valley Signal - California
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June 12, 2025
In the early 2000s, amid the streets of New York City, home to one of the most vibrant Albanian-American communities in the world, a small team of immigrants and first-generation Albanians noticed a growing cultural gap. As new generations were...
First International Conference on Art and Education Held in Tirana
Euronews Albania
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June 12, 2025
The University of Arts in Tirana organized for the first time the International Conference on Art and Education—an important academic event aimed at building bridges of cooperation between researchers, artists, and educators from Albania and other...
'Innovation Now': Albania part of VivaTech 2025, in Paris
Albanian Daily News
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Paris will be the ultimate center of technology and innovation between June 11 to 14, 2025, thanks to the next edition of VivaTech, Europe’s largest conference for start-ups, innovative businesses and advanced technologies. Albania will be...
Channel migrants '24 times more likely to go to prison' than Britons
GB News
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July 3, 2025
New analysis has suggested small boat migrants are 24 times more likely to go to prison than the average British citizen. The rate of foreign citizens in jail when compared to the overall migrant population in the UK is 0.18 per cent, slightly...
Evelyn Albania "Bana" Morelock Fox, 90
Port City Daily - North Carolina
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June 11, 2025
WILMINGTON — In loving memory of Evelyn Albania “Bana” Morelock Fox, also affectionately known as “Nannie”, who peacefully transitioned to her heavenly home and embraced by the arms of Jesus while surrounded by family on Friday, April 25, 2025, at...
On holiday in Albania, I discovered the price of paradise
Metro
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June 11, 2025
Tourism has exploded in this tiny European country in a way few expected (Picture: Getty/Alice Murphy) In the ninth installment of Metro Travel Hot Takes, Travel Editor Alice Murphy recalls her visit to Albania’s TikTok-famous Riviera, where a...
Village Schools Left Behind by Albania’s Digital Rollout
Balkan Insight
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June 11, 2025
Digitalisation is the latest buzzword in Albania, hailed as a silver bullet for red tape and inefficiency. But while going digital can streamline bureaucracy and cut costs, “it can produce the opposite result when it comes to vulnerable...
Two Albanian Activists Earn Goldman Environmental Prize for Protecting One of Europe’s Last Remaining Wild Rivers
The Energy Mix
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June 10, 2025
Proud winners of this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize for their successful campaign to protect one of Europe’s last remaining wild rivers from hydropower development, Albanian activists Olsi Nika and Besjana Guri remain committed to protecting...
Ex-mayor charged in Albania over €275K procurement fraud
Gazeta Tema
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June 9, 2025
TIRANA, June 9 (TemA) – Albania’s Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor (SPAK) has filed charges against former mayor Elvis Roshi for abuse of office, following an investigation into public procurement irregularities during his tenure in 2013–2014....