By Enrico Letta Delivery as the defining challenge Thank you. I am genuinely pleased to be here, and I will tell you why I rearranged my agenda to make it. When I
The Middle East faces a historic choice: to remain trapped in rivalries that define security through the weakening of adversaries, or to build a regional order based on sovereignty, cooperation and diplomacy.
Fifteen municipalities are expected to disappear under Albania’s proposed new territorial map. While the government presents the reform as a matter of efficiency and consolidation, communities that may lose municipal status fear
MarZambrano used to say that along with the outer time and space flow, with a different rhythm, the inner time and space, which links the present of the past, or the memory
By Henri ȩli The very least that could be said about Damir Faslic, the person who has been making the headlines in the Albanian written media for days now, is how shady
Cast yourself forward to 2030. It’s only 20 years or so away. Tourists are fed up of Greece. Croatian arrogance has annoyed too many people. Montenegro, for a while quite fashionable amongst
New Europe this phrase has established in Germany and other Western European countries as slightly sarcastic denomination for the Transition states in Central- and Eastern Europe since the days of the former
Within a radius of about two kilometers from Scanderbeg Square, in the very heart of the capital – you can find almost everything: almost all the state institutions, business centers, expensive boutiques
Janusz Bugajski Dangers lurk ahead for the new coalition government in Macedonia. Skopje sees NATO and EU entry as its policy priorities but cannot achieve its targets without resolving the dispute with
By Frank Ledwidge I recently found myself in Himare, which as readers will know is a rather lovely place. I stayed as a lodger in the house of a gentleman who proclaimed
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