Employers across Europe have read workers’ private emails and chat conversations by illegally using secret computer surveillance software; in Romania employees claim bosses have used private information gained to blackmail and bully them.
Tirana’s political elite has failed once again to hold elections according to international standards, two decades after the country emerged from the Stalinist regime of former dictator Enver Hoxha.
Several fights have broken out between rival political supporters in recent days in Albania, highlighting growing tension in the run-up to the May 8 polls. Aristir LumeziTirana
“Shame” is the right word to express the feelings of members of Albania’s Facebook community over what happened on Friday in Tirana, when a protest called by the opposition ended in violence in which three people died and dozens of others were wounded.
Facebook surfers recalled poetry about madness. Alongside them were accusations from various politically affiliated participants aimed at the parties’ respective leaders.
The economies of central and eastern Europe are expected to contract by an average of 6.3 percent in 2009 following steep output declines in the first half of the year
Albania’s banking system registered net losses of 869 million leks (6.56 million euro) in April, down from net earnings of 275 million lek in March, data from Albanian Banks Association show.
With investors fleeing emerging markets in the aftermath of the global credit crunch, and little light at the end of Serbia’s political tunnel, the dinar currency slid to a new record low of 97.50 to the euro this week, having lost a quarter of its value in four months.
While Western Europe increasingly embraces alternative energy, Balkan states are ignoring the potential gains
In spite of generous foreign investment, the electricity is still ‘off’ for much of the time in Kosovo – damaging the impoverished country’s prospects.
From the Basque country to the Caucasus, the implications of the former Serbian province’s march to independence are being followed – and debated
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