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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...
Communist-Era Inmates Fight to Preserve Remains of Albania’s Dark Past
Balkan Insight
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June 18, 2025
The Stalinist regime of Enver Hoxha, which came to power with the end of World War Two, used prison labour, including political prisoners, extensively in construction, mining and agriculture. Labour camps were often overcrowded, and inmates denied...
Renewable Energy Integration and Regional Challenges Explored at Green Transition Forum
Bulgarian News Agency
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Challenges and opportunities facing the renewable energy sector in Central and Eastern Europe were discussed by participants in the panel Increasing Renewable Energy – What’s Next for RES in Central and Eastern Europe during the second day of the...
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...
Are Albania and Montenegro on the fast track to EU membership?
Atlantic Council
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June 17, 2025
July 1 will mark a dozen years since Croatia joined the the European Union (EU), the most recent country to do so. In the years after Croatia’s accession, the bloc’s eastern enlargement process stalled almost entirely. The EU’s enthusiasm for...
Germany backs Albania with major green infrastructure
Gazeta Tema
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June 16, 2025
Germany has expanded its infrastructure support in Albania, launching a new waste landfill in Vlora and rehabilitating water and energy facilities in the region. VLORA, June 16 (TemA) – A German-financed landfill in Sherishta, Vlora has begun...
Germany sees strong momentum in Albania's eu accession process
Gazeta Tema
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June 15, 2025
Germany’s ambassador to Tirana says Albania is making significant strides toward EU membership, opening four of six key negotiating clusters in the past six months. Germany’s ambassador to Albania, Karl Bergner, said on Sunday that Tirana has...
Balkan power boost: Albania–North Macedonia grid nears finish
Gazeta Tema
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June 15, 2025
A €67.5 million interconnector project between Albania and North Macedonia is nearing completion, backed by EU grants and German loans, officials said. Construction of the 400 kV electricity transmission line linking Elbasan–Fier–Qafë Thanë and a...
EU to fund Albanian rail alignment with EU standards
Gazeta Tema
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June 15, 2025
The European Union will provide €700,000 to support Albania’s rail sector alignment with EU standards, institutional capacity building, and staff training over the next 15 months. The EU, in partnership with the Albanian government, has launched a...
20% More Foreign Workers Registered in 2025
Albanian Daily News
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Albania has seen a significant increase in the number of foreign nationals working in sectors with a shortage of local talent. Most of these foreign workers are involved in sectors such as tourism, construction, and other services. According to...
Justice minister targets prosecutor over Theth case
Gazeta Tema
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July 10, 2025
TIRANA, July 10 - Albania’s Justice Minister Ulsi Manja has referred Shkodër prosecutor Elsa Gjeli for disciplinary action, accusing her of failing to investigate illegal construction in the protected area of Theth. Gjeli reportedly closed the...
Water Scarcity, Wastewater Remain Challenges
Albanian Daily News
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The American Chamber of Commerce in Albania (AmCham) has raised concerns regarding several key problems that, according to them, are affecting the tourist season, including the lack of drinking water, mismanagement of wastewater, burning of waste...
PM vows deep reform as crackdown widens
Gazeta Tema
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July 9, 2025
TIRANA, July 9 - Prime Minister Edi Rama has pledged a sweeping legal overhaul to tackle illegal land use and unauthorized construction, following nationwide demolitions targeting public space encroachments. In a message posted on social media,...
Italy’s Milan Bergamo airport resumes flights with delays after man sucked into aircraft engine
Euronews
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July 8, 2025
By Rebecca Ann Hughes with AP Published on 08/07/2025 - 14:44 GMT+2 Orio al Serio airport in the northern Italian city of Bergamo suspended flights on Tuesday due to a runway incident. Local media reported that it was caused by someone...
America Has Never Seen Corruption Like This
The Atlantic
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July 10, 2025
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...
PM demands probe over national park inaction
Gazeta Tema
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July 8, 2025
Tirana, July 8 –Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama on Tuesday called for a disciplinary investigation into a Shkodra prosecutor who allegedly failed to pursue illegal construction in a protected national park. Rama said the Ministry of Justice will...
Inflation reaches 2.4% in June, driven by food prices
Gazeta Tema
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July 8, 2025
Tirana, July 8 – Consumer prices in Albania rose by 2.4% year-on-year in June, up from 2.1% in the previous June, data from the national statistics institute INSTAT shows. This marks the highest annual inflation rate in over a year. Food and...
The Troubling Rise of Supermarkets in the Global South
The Conversationalist
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July 10, 2025
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Iran has been telling the IAEA everything, and it’s been verified: Robert Kelley
Frontline - The Hindu
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July 10, 2025
Robert Kelley, a Distinguished Associate Fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, has worked for over 35 years in the US Department of Energy’s (USDOE) nuclear weapons complex, most recently at Los Alamos in the State of New...
The not-so-affordable housing in the Balkans
Kosovo 2.0
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July 10, 2025
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...