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
It is almost a week now since the ominous moment when the charges of the Special prosecutor’s office at the Hague against Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, former Assembly Speaker Veseli and others were made public just hours before the first one was
“Should we even expect the day when we will be told that we must apologize to Serbia for our missing people, for our raped mothers and daughters, for the ethnic cleansing and
By U.S. Ambassador to Albania, Yuri Kim This week, I had a chance to visit Kruja, the fortress of Albania’s hero, Skanderbeg. Facing attack after attack by the most formidable military force in
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
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
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
By Dr. Arben Ramkaj One of the most important challenges of the recent century’s society has been the separation of religious institution from the state, also known as secularism. However, it is a fact
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
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
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 In the wake of the Zagreb
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.