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Obituary

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,

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Türkiye and Albania: From Shared Past to Strategic Future

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

2 days ago

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Albania–Kosovo Rift Weakens the Albanian Voice

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

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Op-Ed: Beyond the Saturday skirmishes: What is the real democracy challenge in Albania?

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By Genc Pollo, Former Minister and MP of the Democratic Party Images of violence in and around the headquarters of the opposition Democratic Party of Albania were to be seen on Saturday

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Op/Ed: Giving real hope to citizens on the start of 2022

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Looking solely at the tree one might just as well miss the forest… Tangled in a myriad of political crisis and short term bursts of scandals, many are justified to miss the

4 years ago

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Why NATO matters, right now!

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By Howard Gold Most Europeans are familiar with the NATO defensive alliance. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded in 1948 to protect Western Europe from an attack by the Soviet Union.

4 years ago

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Editorial: Albania’s economic management is failing its people

Editorial·Features·Op-Ed

TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL In what has become an annual grim ritual, the focus is back this week on Albania’s GDP per capita and the purchasing power of its citizens. The result remains

4 years ago

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Keeping the youth here through tech bootcamps

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By Fatos Çoçoli As demand for software engineers in Albania skyrocketed in 2020-2021, the opportunities that the Fourth Industrial Revolution provides to our youth are considerable. All our young people need is

4 years ago

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The East and the West of Europe still do not understand one another

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Michel Louyot is a French writer. Lectured literature, and then worked as cultural attaché in Central Europe and Far East. Author of À pas de velours : mes missions culturelles dans l’autre

4 years ago

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Polish history: The Fake Coup

Features·Op-Ed

By JAN ROKITA* For the Poles, those eight years started by the fake coup of 13 December, the darkest hours in the lives of the previous generation. Not only was it time

4 years ago

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Editorial: Telefonyi Zakon and Thoma Gellci, ‘the felon’

Editorial·Features·Op-Ed

By ALBERT RAKIPI The outdated Russian term Telefonyi Zakon or the so-called Rule of Telephone law, refers to “a practice by which outcomes of legal cases allegedly come from orders issued over

4 years ago

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Op/Ed: On the Ramiz Alia* model and the Democratic Party

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By Genc Pollo On 31 March 1991, four months after the founding of the first opposition party, the Democratic Party, the first pluralistic parliamentary elections since the 1940s took place in the

4 years ago

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Editorial: The problem with Open Balkans

Editorial·Op-Ed

TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL The principle of the Open Balkan Initiative — it’s ultimate goal being an EU-style regional borderless movement of people and goods — is not a problem per se, as

4 years ago

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Op/Ed: Extending the Mandate of Vetting Bodies: The Options on the Table

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By GENC POLLO 1- The decent proposal: the Albanian Helsinki Committee On October 27, the Albanian Helsinki Committee (AHC) through a press release recommended that the extension of the mandate of first-level

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Op-Ed - Page 15

Obituary

Türkiye and Albania: From Shared Past to Strategic Future

Albania–Kosovo Rift Weakens the Albanian Voice

Op-Ed: Beyond the Saturday skirmishes: What is the real democracy challenge in Albania?

Op/Ed: Giving real hope to citizens on the start of 2022

Why NATO matters, right now!

Editorial: Albania’s economic management is failing its people

Keeping the youth here through tech bootcamps

The East and the West of Europe still do not understand one another

Polish history: The Fake Coup

Editorial: Telefonyi Zakon and Thoma Gellci, ‘the felon’

Op/Ed: On the Ramiz Alia* model and the Democratic Party

Editorial: The problem with Open Balkans

Op/Ed: Extending the Mandate of Vetting Bodies: The Options on the Table

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