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 Sylë Ukshini Tirana Times, Sept. 15, 2026 – The September 16 judgment at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in the trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi, former Assembly Speaker Kadri Veseli,
It is by now common knowledge that Albania’s agricultural sector has been the big loser of Albania’s transition to a market economy. Farmers all over the country can barely manage to make
By Frank Ledwidge Anyone who has been to Georgia and Albania will immediately see the similarities. A fiercely independent largely mountainous country, with a strong culture, often misunderstood by its neighbours. In
By Frank Ledwidge I remember speaking to an Albanian historian, who has written in these pages, about the Albanian virtue of tolerance. ‘Its not so much that we are any more tolerant
Interviewed by Tirana Times’ ARDIT BEJKO Dr. Bernd J. Fischer is a professor of History at Indiana University, Fort Wayne. His areas of expertise include Balkan history and politics, focusing on Albania
By ambassador of Denmark, Niels Severin Munk When the sun is high on the sky in warm summer weekends, the cool heights of Dajti Mountain and the drizzling shore of Durres are
By Frank Ledwidge Here is a question. The United States and the United Kingdom (with one twentieth the number of US troops) are the largest military contributors to the failing Iraq mission.
Exclusive/ Head of WB in Albania Camille Nuamah The report, an effective tool of motivating reforms Says World Bank official Why is the report titled “Doing Business 2009” and not “…..2008”? It
By Edi Rama Today, one of those men who are makers of history, passed away. Within a mere seven years Top Channel’s Tani managed to accomplish on his own what takes countries
By Janusz Bugajski The next few years will present important challenges for trans-Atlantic cohesion, European Union unity, and the determination of the West to stand up to an increasingly assertive and expansive
By Frank Ledwidge I know many of their families. Some of them, against all reason, believe that some day their son, husband or brother will return. They have heard the stories. There
U.S. Ambassador says corruption needs total fight TIRANA, May 7 – U.S. Ambassador John L. Withers II took part Wednesday at the launch of the 2008 Corruption Perception and Experience Survey conducted