By Turki bin Ibrahim Al-MadiAmbassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the Republic of Albania National Day is an occasion to recall the historic journey of the unification of the Kingdom
By Genc Pollo Tirana Times, September 21, 2026 – At Thessaloniki in June 2003, the European Union made a promise that sounded historic and irreversible. The heads of state and government declared
By Daniel Serwer Tirana Times, September 17, 2026 – The Kosovo Specialist Chambers’ has convicted former President Hashim Thaci and three other Kosovo Liberation Army leaders of war crimes but acquitted them of crimes
By Tom Hashimoto Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but someday, Albania joins the European Union (EU). For Greece, for example, it is natural to have a “European” neighbor on her land
Controversial developments The evolution of the political and security situation in the Western Balkans has been marked by contradictory developments. It has been true in 2008, and it could be so also
By Valentina Leskaj This year holds a particular significance for Albania and for NATO too. Albania expects to become a member of NATO with fully fledged rights in April while the Alliance
The presidential and the mayors’ elections held in Macedonia Sunday, 21 March, offer an interesting though partial and to some degree refutable view of the composition of the Macedonian electorate as compared
It was the first anniversary of Kosovo independence last week. Aside from a few page seven columns it got little notice in Britain or the US. Nor did the poll commissioned by
By Warren Anderson 40 years ago, in 1968, America was at war in the quagmires of Vietnam. She was at war with herself at home over culture, politics, poverty, generational differences and
By Rexhep Meidani These days I have carefully kept track of the data processed at a global level on the “Universal Currency Converter.” Parallel with the recuperation of the dollar against the
There is much to celebrate about United States-Albanian relations which have generally been strong, particularly in the period since 1991, but historically these relations have of course experienced many important changes and
By Veton Surroi 1. One of Kosovo’s counter-expressions, on a none too short list of such statements, is that, whilst Kosovo is one of the fundamental points of European Union foreign policy,
Thursday, 20 November 2008 How can you know what issues are the most important for Kosova? It is very easy. Read the newspapers and write down what they present as the most
The Bosnians are in trouble again. Their nationalists are running the risk of turning their country into Europe’s only failed state. This after thirteen years of intense international effort and investment. It