Remembering Janusz Bugajski: Scholar, Mentor, and Lifelong Friend of the Balkans Janusz Bugajski (1954–2025) The international academic and analytical community has lost one of its most lucid and principled voices. Janusz Bugajski,
By Marjana Doda, This feature draws on exclusive insights from an interview with Ambassador Tayyar Kagan Atay, the Ambassador of the Republic of Türkiye to Tirana. On the occasion of the 102nd
The Rama–Kurti clash over the war crimes tribunal highlights deeper structural tensions, from unimplemented agreements to competing regional agendas. The latest clash between Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and Kosovo’s Albin Kurti
By GENC POLLO* The meeting of the EU leaders in Brussels on Thursday, 23 June, took place against the backdrop of Putin’s bloody aggression war. They were right in showing solidarity with
A must read for Jewish, Albanian, Greek and Israel communities, and anyone interested in the history of the Jews in the Balkans. It will be published in November 2022 in English Language
By Kyriakos Mitsotakis* Today’s South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) Summit in the ancient port city of Thessaloniki, a great center of trade and ideas over many centuries, comes at a critical moment.
By Prof. Wojciech Roszkowski “You have your principles, we have structural funds” – whose words are these? They were uttered by the French president François Hollande in 2017. From his perspective, the
Criticism of a new management plan for the national park, and the AADF’s involvement, is unwarranted, misguided or malicious. TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL An ongoing debate over a new management plan for the
Interview with outgoing Constitutional Court Judge Përparim Kalo, who was recently proposed to parliament as a presidential candidate by several important civil society organizations. We have heard your mandate is over. A
By Ines Stasa The Albanian non-permanent membership mandate at the United Nations Security Council is challenged among other regional and country-based disputes, by two major international events in Afghanistan and recently in
By Alba Cela The expression above is commonly used in English-speaking countries to show inertia as an often decisive force in political and social developments even when everything seems to be changing
Albanians and international friends are looking for the country’s next president to have the right authority and integrity that can help the presidency rise above the political fray — someone like Përparim
By GENC POLLO* “We can discuss but not negotiate,” the Albanian Interior Minister Sander Lleshaj would repeat in spring 2017, making it clear that he was speaking on behalf of the government
By Dr. Dušan Janjić Opposition to NATO enlargement has been a constant in Russian foreign policy, from the collapse of the Soviet Union and up to the present day. This concept, defined