Albania has the 39th-largest economy in Europe as measured by gross domestic product. In the Balkans, only North Macedonia, Moldova, Kosovo and Montenegro have smaller economies. “Albania has made ...

Between 1990 and 1992 Albania ended 46 years of xenophobic Communist rule and established a multiparty democracy. The transition has proven challenging as successive governments have tried to deal ...

The Albanian Prime Minister turned up at his offices in Tirana for our interview wearing what he called his “painting clothes”—denim work shirt and jeans, lightly paint-spattered. Edi Rama had spent ...

Area: 28,748 sq. km. (slightly larger than Maryland). Major cities: Capital -Tirana (600,000, 2005 est.). Others – Durres (200,000, 2005 est.), Shkoder (81,000 ...

Albania has a historic opportunity to break with the past and accelerate its path towards prosperity and integration into the EU. The country needs deep structural reforms in order to eliminate ...

Albania is a small, mountainous country in the Balkan peninsula, with a long Adriatic and Ionian coastline. Along with neighbouring and mainly Albanian-inhabited Kosovo, it has a Muslim majority - a ...