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 The saga of the videos allegedly incriminating the brother of the Minister of Interior Affairs in narco-trafficking is going on. Despite the brother being actually sent to Italy in
To the follower of novels or drama series such as ‘Gomorrah’ or ‘Narcos’, the story that has gripped the Albanian political and public debate in the last days would seem extremely familiar.
By Susanne Schà¼tz* On this 3rd of October, 28 years ago, German reunification was sealed and brought to an end the painful division of Europe into East and West. For Albania, too,
By Alexander Karpushin* An “agreement” that went down in history as the “Munich Betrayal” of the four powers – Germany, Italy, Britain and France, was concluded in Munich 80 years ago on
By Johann Sattler “The Balkans begin at the Rennweg (street in the center of Vienna)” – there is hardly any Austrian that doesn’t know this phrase, which is attributed to former Austrian
TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL After commenting for a long time that massive migration is normal and natural and even circular, the Albanian government seems to have caught up with the demographic decline and
By Alba Cela Jan Claude Juncker has come a long way in these few years from the first time he took over the Commission and delivered a Bush-patterned ‘read my lips- no
The idea of discussing new ‘corrected’ borders between Kosovo and Serbia, in an alleged attempt to reach a final solution to the most complex issue in the region, has been the subject
By Dr. Ledion Krisafi – Senior AIIS researcher Introduction Kosovo’s February 2008 declaration of independence was confronted with different reactions by different countries of the Balkans and the Southeastern Europe in general.
TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL The evening of the 10th of September as well as a few days after that one could observe a sad show outside of the shop doors of the companies
It’s a new parliamentary season in Albania, but the same old story of deep political divisions continues. And in the process, it is creating a negative climate that focuses on narrow interests