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 Altin Gjeta Three decades ago Albania threw off the shackles of one of the most tightly closed Stalinist regimes in the Central Eastern Europe. While the communist dictatorship was crumbling, the
By EDI RAMA* Eighteen years ago, at the 2003 European Union-Western Balkans Summit in Thessaloniki, we were told, “the future of the Balkans is within the European Union.” The EU has since reiterated
The loss of its people to migration is now Albania’s top crisis. And the government needs to act immediately to mitigate the problem instead of the usual attention diversion stories of “Albanian
There are no easy solutions for demographic decline in Albania. In fact, the problem might no longer be fixable, but the government can do more to adjust policies to soften the blow.
By Odeta Barbullushi An EU-Western Balkans summit will take place today in the picturesque estate of Brdo, hosted by the Slovenian Presidency of the EU. This is the fourth such summit, with
The lack of a professional, public and comprehensive debate on the future of the vetting process of the judiciary as well as the silence of the opposition are a major cause for
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Genc Pollo has been a Member of the Albanian Parliament for several consecutive terms, Minister of Education and then Deputy Prime Minister.
Western European countries have complained about overstay and other breaches by Albanian nationals and are seeking the suspension of visa liberalization. Which means that Albania’s biggest and most tangible achievement this decade,
‘The early bird gets the worm’, or in political terms the work to steal the next elections starts the moment the current manipulation wraps up. This is the only framework that helps
Alba Cela- Editor ‘Scheherazade’s 1001 nights’ met Virtual Reality in a show jam-packed with astonishing visuals and exquisite music for the kick off spectacle for the Dubai Expo 2020. For 90 captivating
By ALBERT RAKIPI, PhD The article below was first published on Feb. 26, 2020 in the Tirana Observatory, a quarterly journal of foreign policy and international relations by the Albanian Institute for
By Anar Huseynov, Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan Today is a first anniversary since Armenia unleashed the 44-day war against Azerbaijan. In September 2020, Armenia launched a large-scale military attack on