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,
A grave accident happened some days ago in a village in the southeast of Albania: a natural gas container exploded inside a bar severely harming more than 30 people, some of which
By DEWI VAN DE WEERD Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands For the Kingdom of the Netherlands, this new year started with a great responsibility – the rotating EU presidency
By FATJONA MEJDINI As part of a small group of Albanian journalists who traveled to Belgrade to meet some key actors of Serbian politics and civil society, I repeatedly heard that “between
By LUFTI DERVISHI It’s hard to find a bar in Belgrade where smoking is not allowed… Traces of snow can be seen on the well-known pedestrian street in the center of Belgrade,
The process of electoral reform is off to a showy start with political leaders sitting on the same table despite major hostilities inter and intra coalition. Brought together by civil society and
By DONALD LU My mother is a saint. After raising three kids and working a full-time job, she still had time to volunteer as the head of an election precinct in California.
By ALBA à‡ELA Last year, I attended a conference in Munich with a small group of us from Albania. We were invited to talk about the challenges of our country. Our international
By ARJAN STAROVA A few weeks ago, Montenegro received the NATO membership invitation, which according to my opinion, should have been extended maybe even one or two years ago. However, this was
By ALBERT RAKIPI The government’s initiative to reform the judicial system has finally materialized into a draft proposal that calls for constitutional amendments, affecting the entire structure of the judicial system.
By ALBA à‡ELA 2016 will be the year when most of the news and debates will be defined by these two words ‘justice reform’. There have never been so many expectations about