Tag: Albania

• Saturday, September 13th 2025 - 00:47 UTC

  Albania appoints AI minister to handle tenders

  

  Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama has appointed a new “minister” created with artificial intelligence to manage public tenders. Named Diella, or “sun” in Albanian, the AI-powered official is a virtual entity whose role is to eliminate human involvement in the bidding process to avoid further corruption scandals.

• Monday, October 21st 2024 - 08:52 UTC

  Italy's Albania deal for irregular migrants fails as judges rule against detention of the asylum seekers

  

  The UK Boris Johnson solution to address migrants trying to illegally cross to Britain, which was to be implemented through the so-called Rwanda deal but was rejected by the EU and UK courts, did not impede Italy from attempting a similar procedure with neighboring Albania, where migrants wanting to reach Italy were to be screened before any final decision was taken.