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Dr. Arben Ramkaj is Chairman at the Institute for Cultural and Religious Dialogues in Albania. He is also Director of the Middle East and Muslim World Department at the Albanian Institute for International Studies (AIIS).

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From the Nile to the Balkans

By Dr. Arben Ramkaj Tirana Times, July 3, 2026 – If you sit by the banks of the Nile on a quiet afternoon and allow its serene flow to guide your thoughts,

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The Strategic Price of Non-Enlargement

By Albert Rakipi Tirana Times, June 30, 2026 – For more than two decades, the Western Balkans have lived inside the promise of European integration. In Albania, support for membership in the

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The Political Myth of the “Beautiful Protest”

A Barthesian Reading By Diana Gëllçi, Ph.D. Tirana Times, June 30, 2026 – A beautiful protest has been unfolding in Tirana for several weeks. What is particularly interesting is that the same description

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Op/Ed: A weak opposition means a weak democracy

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The implosion of Albania’s main opposition Democratic Party into the ugly scenes of clashes at the party’s headquarters in Tirana on Saturday is a bad sign not just for the party itself,

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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Polish history: The Fake Coup

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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

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

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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

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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

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Editorial: The problem with Open Balkans

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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

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Op-Ed - Page 19

From the Nile to the Balkans

The Strategic Price of Non-Enlargement

The Political Myth of the “Beautiful Protest”

Op/Ed: A weak opposition means a weak democracy

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

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