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Iranian hackers target Albania in retaliation for hosting dissidents
Politico Europe
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June 21, 2025
"Your actions will cost you a heavy price,” the group said in a string of ominous messages on the messaging app, sharing screenshots of server login credentials, the names and details of employees as well as the personal details of Tirana...
Foreign capital finds new ground in Albania
Gazeta Tema
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June 22, 2025
About 5.3% of active companies in Albania now operate with foreign or joint capital, reflecting a growing international footprint in the country’s economy. Italian investors remain the largest group, accounting for 41.8% of all foreign...
River Residence Tirana / Davide Macullo Architects
ArchDaily
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June 22, 2025
© Leonit Ibrahimi+ 20 Share Share Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or https://www.archdaily.com/1030850/river-residence-tirana-davide-macullo-architects Design Team: Aileen Forbes-Munnelly, Andrea Carlotta Conti, Samantha Capoferri,...
Thales supports airspace sovereignty in Albania with Ground Master 400 Alpha surveillance radar
EDR Magazine
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June 20, 2025
20 June 2025 – In the presence of the French Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, and Albanian Defence Minister Pirro Vengu, Thales was selected as strategic industrial partner to support a short-delivery-time request to supply a...
Clean coastal push suspends works in Albania
Gazeta Tema
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June 20, 2025
Albania’s tourism minister has ordered a halt to coastal construction and warned of zero tolerance on pollution and beach encroachment before the summer season. Tourism and Environment Minister Mirela Kumbaro inspected Kavaja, home to 73 public...
Serbia's Vucic Reveals Secret Military Build-Up, Cites Threats from Kosovo, Croatia, Albania, and Bulgaria
Novinite
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has stated that Serbia has been secretly rearming its military in recent years, with the goal of significantly boosting its capabilities to ensure national freedom and security, BGNES repoirts. According to him,...
Vucic: I am secretly rearming the Serbian army to defend against Bulgaria, Kosovo, Croatia, and Albania
BGNES
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June 21, 2025
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said that the Serbian armed forces are “stronger than ever” and stressed that “few people know” what weapons have been acquired in recent years because this has been “done in secret.” According to him, Pristina,...
Council of Ministers Decision / Albania-Italy Joint Task Force on Migration Agreement Established
Euronews Albania
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June 19, 2025
On Thursday, June 19, 2025, the Albanian government approved the creation of a joint Task Force for the implementation of the protocol between the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Albania and the Government of the Republic of Italy, aimed...
EU reassesses Albania’s use of blocked farm funds
Gazeta Tema
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June 19, 2025
EU officials are back in Albania to review how the country has handled farm subsidies after suspending support over misuse of funds. Brussels froze funding in 2023 under the IPARD II program after fraud investigators found evidence of inflated...
Four Students from Ukraine and Russia Study at Trakia University's Yambol-based Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Bulgarian News Agency
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Four foreign students are studying at the Yambol-based Faculty of Engineering and Technology of Trakia University in Stara Zagora, Professor Vanya Stoykova, Dean of the Faculty, told BTA. Three students from Ukraine and one from Russia are...
Oil prices climb past $77 on Iran-Israel tension, hitting Albania
Gazeta Tema
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June 20, 2025
Global oil prices rose sharply this week, with Brent crude topping $77 per barrel—its highest level since January—amid rising tensions between Iran and Israel. The escalation has raised fears of supply disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz, a...
Balluku publishes WEF report: Albania ranks first in energy sustainability
Euronews Albania
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June 18, 2025
Albania ranks first in terms of sustainability in the energy sector. The World Economic Forum has published the ranking of countries based on three pillars considered the most important for energy development. In the sustainability column, Albania...
Bulgatransgaz CEO: Vertical Gas Corridor Will Transform Europe's Energy Independence
Bulgarian News Agency
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Bulgartransgaz CEO Vladimir Malinov took part in Energy Transition Summit: East Med and Southeastern Europe forum in Athens, Bulgartransgaz said on Thursday. "Thanks to the excellent regional cooperation and targeted investments to improve...
WEF: Global energy transition picks up pace
Balkan Green Energy News
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June 19, 2025
The report, titled Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2025, tracks the performance of energy systems of 118 countries across three dimensions – security, sustainability, and equity. The equity segment showed the strongest gains, thanks to...
Italy remains Albania’s top trading partner
Gazeta Tema
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June 19, 2025
Italy dominates both sides of Albania’s trade, supplying food, clothing, and machinery, while buying back textiles, shoes, and construction materials. In the first five months of 2025, Albania exported goods worth 73.3 billion leks to Italy and...
Committed to Strategic Projects in Energy
Albanian Daily News
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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Energy, Belinda Balluku, participated in the two-day Energy Transition Summit organized in Athens. This summit covered the region of Southeast Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean and the...
Three Views of Albania and the World Order
Albanian Daily News
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Les Nemethy, the founder and CEO of Euro-Phoenix, a financial advisory firm focused on emerging markets, a former World Banker, gives his impressions on the changes that have happened in Albania since his first stay in Albania as an expert of the...
Safety Warnings Follow Australia’s Woodside Energy to U.S. as $17 Billion LNG Project Moves Ahead
DeSmog
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June 18, 2025
As Woodside Energy investors convened for their annual meeting in Perth, Australia, on May 8, they were met by protests and heckling. Activists, angered over the fossil fuel company’s climate impacts and accidents, repeatedly disrupted speeches by...
Championing diversity in the structural engineering space
Silicon Republic
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June 18, 2025
We spoke with Anisa Pjetri about establishing herself in a dynamic, ever-changing and typically male-dominated field. According to Anisa Pjetri, a senior structural engineer and project manager at AtkinsRéalis, Ireland’s engineering landscape is...
Cooperation is the key to pulling down the ‘energy curtain’ dividing the EU
Kathimerini
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‘We should disengage from Russian gas,’ Greek Energy Minister Stavros Papastavrou, seen on the monitor, told a panel on ‘Strategic insights on Eastern Mediterranean and Southeast Europe energy policy,’ at the Energy Transition Summit, organized by...