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Tirana Observatory Releases New Issue on EU Enlargement and European Security

The Spring 2026 edition brings together international scholars, diplomats and policy experts to examine European integration, geopolitical challenges, diplomacy and Albania’s foreign relations. TIRANA, Albania – The Albanian Institute for International Studies

November 12, 2026

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Albania’s 2027 Fiscal Package and the Risks to Investment

Executive Summary The government presents its 2027 fiscal package as a redistribution from capital and higher incomes towards basic consumption and middle-income salaries. Its principal measures—higher dividend and standard VAT rates, a

November 11, 2026

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Albania’s Former Spy Chief Faces New Corruption and Money Laundering Investigation

Prosecutors are considering organized crime charges against Vlora Hyseni as the expanding investigation raises questions about national security and Prime Minister Edi Rama’s decision to appoint her. TIRANA, Albania — Albania’s former

November 9, 2026

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Bank of Albania shifts policy, cutting key rate by 0.25% to 3%

Business & Economy

TIRANA, July 4, 2024 – The Bank of Albania has shifted direction for the first time since March 2022, easing its monetary policy by reducing the key interest rate by 0.25 percentage

July 4, 2024

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Analysis: Bells toll for Albania’s demographics as census results confirm corrosive effects of massive emigration

Features·Main·News·Op-Ed

TIRANA, July 4, 2024 – The much anticipated and much delayed results of the 2023 Census are out in Albania, confirming a massive population decline in 12 years and a worsening of

July 4, 2024

5 mins read

Ilir Beqaj, high Socialist official mired in corruption investigations, arrested for abuse of EU funds

Main·News

TIRANA, July 4, 2024 – Ilir Beqaj, Albania’s former minister of health who has a history of holding important position in the ruling Socialist Party, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of involvement

July 4, 2024

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Op/Ed: A lesson for a new world politics

Op-Ed

The UN has recognized the Srebrenica massacre as genocide by a majority vote. With this decision, the international community gives a warning signal against any form of genocide. And the role of

July 4, 2024

22 mins read

A phone call not every writer wants

Books

By Kristoffer Leandoer Every year he waits in vain by the phone on this very day, and a whole nation waits with him. Every year the Albanian people are equally surprised that Ismail

July 3, 2024

11 mins read

Chronicles and Fragments

Books·Culture

The novels of Ismail Kadare. By James Wood Like Trieste or Lvov, the medieval city of Gjirokastër, in southern Albania, has passed its history beneath a sign perpetually rewritten, in different hands, but

July 3, 2024

29 mins read

Interview, Ismail Kadare: All Totalitarian Regimes Are Mad

Op-Ed

May 31, 2008 Ismail Kadare wrote for decades under Enver Hoxha’s brutal communist regime in Albania, was suspected of spying and threatened with punishment for subversive writing. Despite all this, at 72

July 2, 2024

9 mins read

Obituary: Ismail Kadare, global literary titan who helped ‘making Albania’

Culture·Features·News

TIRANA, June 1, 2024 – Albania’s greatest writer and perennial Nobel Prize candidate, Ismail Kadare, has died at the age of 88. Kadare had permanently moved back to his homeland of Albania

July 1, 2024

4 mins read

Albania’s population shrank by 429,000, census results show

Main·News·Social Issues

TIRANA, June 28, 2024 – Albania’s population shrank by almost 14 percent in 12 years, losing about 429,000 residents, according to the country’s official 2023 census, the results of which were just

July 1, 2024

4 mins read

SAIMIR LOLJA ON ALBANIAN COMMUNISM AND ITS REGIONAL DYNAMICS

Books

Book Review: The Nation-Free Recipe – How the Triple Entente Served Comintern, 2nd ed., Austin Macauley Publishers, New York, 2024 By Peter Marko Tase This non-fiction book covers Europe and Albania

June 28, 2024

7 mins read

Albania: freedom, thought and life

Books

An approach from Lea Ypi’s Free. Coming of Age at the End of History Manuel Montobbio Ideas are written and formulated with words, theories and concepts; and they are written and formulated

June 28, 2024

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Tirana Times

Tirana Observatory Releases New Issue on EU Enlargement and European Security

Albania’s 2027 Fiscal Package and the Risks to Investment

Albania’s Former Spy Chief Faces New Corruption and Money Laundering Investigation

Bank of Albania shifts policy, cutting key rate by 0.25% to 3%

Analysis: Bells toll for Albania’s demographics as census results confirm corrosive effects of massive emigration

Ilir Beqaj, high Socialist official mired in corruption investigations, arrested for abuse of EU funds

Op/Ed: A lesson for a new world politics

A phone call not every writer wants

Chronicles and Fragments

Interview, Ismail Kadare: All Totalitarian Regimes Are Mad

Obituary: Ismail Kadare, global literary titan who helped ‘making Albania’

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