Today: Oct 22, 2025

Op-Ed - Page 26

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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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
4 days ago
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Kosovo Serbia dialogue back to limbo

The implosion of an ill-fated effort The announcement of the charges against Kosovo’s President Hashim Thaci, former Assembly Speaker Kadri Veseli and other prominent former UCK leaders by the Specialist Prosecutors Office at the Hague brought to a swift and tumultuous end the hopes for
5 years ago
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Tirana ignores EU entry requirements

By Genc Pollo Albanian MP and former Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on European Integration. He is also an ex-Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Education; Telecoms The European Parliament adopted a resolution
5 years ago
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The international chaperoning should come to an end

As far as I and the Socialist Party is concerned this is the last time we sit on a table so heavily mediated by internationals,-Prime Minister Rama said unexpectedly, commenting on the final achievement of consensus over the Electoral Reform, the very first condition on the list
5 years ago
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Electoral Reform or a ‘ticking the box’ exercise

TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL After the illegal demolition of the National Theatre and the disproportionate violence exerted by the police on the protesters, the de-facto opposition which sits outside the Assembly declared that
5 years ago
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A plan lost in communication

TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL The Albanian political actors are caught in the latest petty scramble about the platform that the President IlirMeta- the so called non-paper for integration- has drafted and presented for the solution
5 years ago
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The curtain falls

TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL In the middle of the pandemic situation, as the sun had still to go up in a sleepy Tirana, there were some people who had been up all night.
5 years ago
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