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Key Reforms Needed to Grow Albania’s E-commerce Sector
A new World Bank Albania E-Commerce Diagnostic highlights key reforms needed to better leverage digital trade as opportunity for economic development.
E-commerce can be an...
Turkey: A power in decline
Since the Ottoman Empire founded at the end of the 13th century, Turkey has always been an undisputed power. However, in recent years, due...
Building back better in Albania: UNECE supports housing sector reforms and urban resilience
Albania has made considerable progress in the recent years in the provision of affordable adequate housing to all. Notably, the national government has been...
A Note on the Overnight Demolition of the Albanian National Theatre
In the early morning of the 17th of May the bulldozers of the Tirana city hall started to demolish the building that hosted the...
Italy’s Last Unexpected Eurosceptic Friend: Edi Rama and his “Lesson to Europe”
On March 29, Italian and Albanian media
reported the news of the arrival in
Italy of a team of 10 physicians and 20 nurses from Tirana...
Albania moves ahead with inclusive and sustainable industrial development
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization
(UNIDO) and the Government of the Republic of Albania have agreed a
comprehensive programmatic framework to achieve inclusive and sustainable
industrial...
Commission reports on progress made by Albania and North Macedonia
Today, the Commission presented updates on the progress made by Albania
and North Macedonia in further addressing rule of law related reforms, in
particular in the...
UNIDO to support Albania’s post-disaster reconstruction
A delegation from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization
(UNIDO) has taken part in the international donors’ conference “Together for
Albania”. The event, hosted by the European
Commission,...
Do Albanians like Fascism? An Iconographical Investigation on Social Media Material
Far right groups with fascist-like ideologies and aesthetics are not
rare in the Balkans. I am not referring to parties with nationalist and/or
irredentist programs, which...
North Macedonia and Albania not allowed even in EU “waiting room”
The recent decision by an EU summit to postpone until October the solution on welcoming in Albania and North Macedonia as new members marks...