Minister of Finance Petrit Malaj announced that customs procedures have become faster, more transparent and with a significant reduction in the possibility of corruption.

During the period January-October 2025, the customs approved 6,180 online services, enabling a large part of operations to be carried out without the need for physical contact and with greater security in documentation.

Digital transformation and process automation have also reduced the average handling time of procedures, from 3.48 days during the same period in 2024 to 3.25 days in 2025, an average improvement of 0.23 days for each procedure, or 6.6%.

Today, 41 customs services are offered completely online, guaranteeing immediate and clear access for all users.

This process has made customs easier to use, more transparent and accessible at any time and from any place. /a.f/r.e/p.s./

The Albanian Football Association reported that, “UEFA has accepted the request of the Moldovan side, which had also agreed in principle with the Albanian Football Association to change the starting time of this match from 20:45 to 18:00 (according to local European time).”

Albania is in Group E in these qualifiers, where apart from Moldova, Poland, the Czech Republic and the Faroe Islands are the other opponents of the Red and Blacks team.

Albania is currently ranked second in Group E, after three matches played; it has achieved two victories against Moldova and the Faroe Islands, while losing the first match against Poland.

In September, the Red and Blacks will play two decisive matches for these qualifiers, against the Czech Republic (September 7) and Poland (September 10) at the ‘Air Albania’ stadium.

On October 12, the red and blacks team will host the Czechs at home, with the challenge scheduled to start at 20:45. In October, Albania will play a friendly match against Bulgaria. This challenge is scheduled to be played on October 17 at the “Air Albania” stadium.

While in November, the Red and Blacks led by coach Silvinho will play the last two matches in context of the qualifiers of the European Championship “Germany 2024” against the Faroe Islands and Moldova. Albania first travels to Moldova on November 17, with the challenge starting at 18:00, while they will end this qualifying campaign at home on November 20, at 20:45. /r.e/p.s./

During a briefing after meeting of the government, Kumbaro said that the changes in this law come after a 1-year work and as a result of the work done during the observation of the last tourist season. Then, one of the major concerns of businesses, operators and holiday-makers was the noise pollution at high levels due to the music in bars, restaurants and hotels.

She said that after the approval of the law in the Parliament, there will be a stricter control of it and expanded powers of the State Police to control with certified means and according to WHO standards for noise pollution and implementation of schedules.

The minister said that the changes in this law provide a new task to the municipalities which will have the obligation to define the mapping of the territory to clearly define the inhabited areas, the areas which will be completely quiet; the areas which are far from apartments or family hotels and where fun activities can take place.

Also, Kumbaro said that there will be a clearer division of powers for the municipal police that will continue to control, but also be equipped with accredited control certification tools for other types of noise that can be created by different businesses.

“The time slots during the summer season for normal daily musical activities will be from 12 noon to 12 midnight and in accordance with the mapping made by the municipalities, the State Police will also have the powers to measure, control, monitor or penalize economic activities that do not abide by these norms”, said the minister./p.s./

The education congress, which takes place on September 12 and 13, focuses on “The challenges of quality and inclusive education towards European integration” and aims to bring together in a discussion space many actors in the field of education, including pre-university education, higher education and scientific research”.

The participation in this congress of many authorities of educational institutions, rectors, academics, lecturers, researchers, policy makers promotes mutual cooperation to face challenges of the future, for a quality and comprehensive education towards European integration.

Present at the opening of this congress were Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama, Minister of Education and Sports Evis Kushi, members of the government cabinet, pedagogues, teachers, etc.

Minister of Education and Sports Evis Kushi said in her speech that, “In addition to being a fundamental right, education is also the main factor for the economic and social development of every nation. The changes that are happening in the world today, on the one hand, natural disasters, pandemics, economic crises, wars, climate change, and on the other hand, the rapid development of technology, digitization, and the needs of the labor market for new professions, bring the need for a new vision in education”.

“Besides the global crisis in Albania, we are also facing another trend, a challenge, which the entire Balkan region is facing. A part of young people leave the region for studies or employment to western countries, countries which, being in the phase of the aging of the population and having growing needs in the labor market, have opened the doors for our young people, especially for doctors and nurses. To respond to this trend, we have drawn up some new policies such as the internationalization of universities, but also additional funding for joint, double study programs with prestigious European universities. Our goal is to increase the quality, and to give more value to our degrees, just like in the best EU universities”.

“In this congress, we have dedicated special panels for scientific research, where we have invited, in addition to universities and research centers, also representatives of business and chambers of commerce, and we welcome more interest in their contribution, with concrete proposals and commitments”, Kushi said.

Minister Kushi said that, “Even in the pre-university education system, the challenges are great, so that to achieve that our students benefit from the new skills of the 21st century, become good professionals, successful employees and worthy citizens of the future./ k.s./p.s./

The General Directorate of Road Transport Services said today in a post on social media that the tachograph card can be obtained in 10 days from the 30 days that they used to be issued before, speeding up the process by 67% time saved, thanks to the redesign of the service by Directorate’s Cetis.

In the first month of innovation of the application, there were made 671 applications or 227% more than the monthly average.

The Directorate emphasized that the drivers are saved 270 thousand Euros from the drastic reduction of the fee and from the increase in working days (the days of waiting without a card are reduced, i.e. without work) during the first month alone.

“Our vision is to reduce costs for the vital road transport sectors that are very exposed to the global price crisis in the wake of the extended phase of the Covid-19 pandemic!” emphasized the directorate. /j.p/p.s./

This challenge was scheduled to start at 19:00, but after the request of the Spanish Football Association and consultations with the Albanian Football Association and the UEFA, it was agreed that the friendly should start at 19:45.

The Albanian Football Association has been preparing for weeks for this match, which will be the first of the Albanian National Team for the current year. This will be the first friendly match between the two representatives, who have so far played seven challenges against each other in context of the qualifiers of European and world championships.

Meanwhile, only three days later, on March 29, 2022, Albania will play another friendly match against Georgia. This match will be played at the “Air Albania” stadium in Tirana, starting at 18:00.

The two friendly matches are in context of the preparations of the Albanian National Team for the group matches in the League of Nations, which are due to start in June./j.p/r.e/p.s./

“We are not stopping for a moment to guarantee the increase of the quantities of vaccines, to enable our ambitious plan of vaccination of the population for 14 months. We have already guaranteed more than 1.6 million vaccines, but we are continuing to reach other bilateral contracts so that our ambitious 14-month vaccination plan goes according to this pace “, stressed Manastirliu.

The Minister of Health also spoke about the legal changes in the Law on Drugs and Pharmaceutical Services.

“We did not waste time authorizing the marketing of antiCOVID vaccines, but we were extremely careful to approve and give immediate marketing authorization for vaccines that are authorized by the EMA and FDA and certainly pre-qualified by the WHO. The changes we bring for approval not only regulate the procedures for trading drugs or vaccines in an emergency time, through conditional trading authorization, but above all offer more guarantees of costs and benefits. In this case, these changes are proposed and come for vaccines against COVID19, which are a priority for the prevention of infection caused by this virus, “said Manastirliu./p.s./