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A Quarter Century Since Ohrid: The Agreement That Gave North Macedonia Its Future

by Ferit Hoxha, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of Albania Tirana Times, August 12, 2026 – There are moments in history when a country’s future is shaped by a single document. Such

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The Ibar River Should Carry Water, Not Nationalist Politics

Albania Serbia Diplomatic Clash Heats Up the Summer By Albert Rakipi, PhD Tirana Times, August 12, 2026 – The latest dispute over the Ibar River shows how quickly a real security issue

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The United States Helped Build SPAK. Now SPAK Must Do Its Job

by David J. Kostelancik Tirana Times, July 18, 2026 – For years, the U.S. and the EU invested significant political capital, funding, and diplomatic pressure into helping Albania build one of the

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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

5 years ago

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

Op-Ed

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

5 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

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By ALBERT RAKIPI The outdated Russian term Telefonyi Zakon or the so-called Rule of Telephone law, refers to “a practice by which outcomes of legal cases allegedly come from orders issued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

5 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

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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

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

Op-Ed

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: Albania’s EU accession debacle is becoming the new norm

Op-Ed

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

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Op/Ed: Albania is getting ready for the EU, no matter what

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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

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Editorial: Let them eat satellites

Editorial·Op-Ed

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

5 years ago

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Op-Ed - Page 20

A Quarter Century Since Ohrid: The Agreement That Gave North Macedonia Its Future

The Ibar River Should Carry Water, Not Nationalist Politics

The United States Helped Build SPAK. Now SPAK Must Do Its Job

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

Op/Ed: Albania’s EU accession debacle is becoming the new norm

Op/Ed: Albania is getting ready for the EU, no matter what

Editorial: Let them eat satellites

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