Tirana Times, July 07, 2026 – The next NATO Summit, where the leaders of Allied member states gather annually, will take place on July 7–8, 2026, at the Presidential Complex in Ankara.
By Marco Rubio Two hundred and fifty years ago today, in a brick hall in Philadelphia, our forefathers declared their independence from the most powerful empire on earth. They were not fools.
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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).
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,
TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL There is only one thing worse than a full blown democratic crisis and that is ignoring it, normalizing the current state of affairs as just an administrative glitch with
TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL The latest political developments in Albania, including the decision of opposition parties MPs to give relinquish their mandates and therefore be no longer representatives in the Parliament as well
TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL The Albanian opposition led by the Democratic Party has announced a large national protest to be held this week on the 16th of February. In fact the opposition has
TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL There is a big and important difference between a foreign policy of 360 degrees- a comprehensive, strategic point of view that seeks to have an open collaborative approach to
TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL This week brought new revelations into the now exposed and painful topic of the connections between Albanian politicians and organized crime. The latter seems to be a fountain of
By Christopher Tushaj The Kà¢ngà« Kreshnikà«sh, or Songs of the Highland Warriors, are a fragile, living library of ancient Indo-European oral tradition of folk tales, myths, and legends in the highlands of
TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL Examining the performance of the chief of the executive and his new cabinet members, by now it is clear that 2019 will be the year spent on designing mechanisms,
It is often said that although art is supposed to be ‘life in extrems’, real life very frequently surpasses art in its exotic extremes. One of these times happened this week for
TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL Seeing that the President of the Republic, Ilir Meta, did not bulge from his decision to reject the proposed name of Gent Cakaj as a Foreign Minister, Prime Minister
TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL The newly appointed Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of Albania, the 28 years old boy from Kosovo who has three Bachelor degrees and two masters, cannot represent Albania
NEWS ANALYSIS In an unprecedented move which was planned to shock and awe, the Prime Minister used the last days of 2018 to bring down his cabinet, removing and replacing the