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NATO’s Ankara Summit and Albania’s Uncertain Moment

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.

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A salute to America

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).

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From the Nile to the Balkans

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,

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What getting EU candidate status means and the challenges ahead

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This week, the EU Council officially granted Albania EU candidate status. On that occasion, Tirana Times contacted several international representatives and local experts in Tirana to express their views on what Albania

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Looking back on the past 20 years through rose-coloured lences

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By P쳰arim KALO As one of those who started the journey towards the unknown of private enterprise in the first years immediately after the 90s, I consider an obligation to share some

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‘Beyond any doubt, with no conditionality or reservations’

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These were some of the comments made to the media by Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy ˴efan F

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Progress towards the EU requires resolute, sustained and cooperative action

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By Clive Rumbold The commemoration of the 9th of May 1950 gives us an important opportunity to reflect on our past, and to look forward to our future together. On this day

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Awakening civil society and fighting national stereotypes

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“Albania is being vilified and the decent, hardworking Albanians continue to be collectively punished because of a criminal element in the Albanian society. If we stereotype old and new EU member states

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LGBTI rights are human rights

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By Zineb T. Benjelloun Deeply-embedded homophobic and transphobic attitudes, often combined with a lack of adequate legal protection, expose many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in all regions of the

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Hantke: Albania should get candidate status to ‘be more motivated for the next steps’

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With a decision on Albania’s EU candidate for membership status approaching next month, Tirana Times’ Andi Balla interviewed the head of Germany’s Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Foundation in Tirana, Frank Hantke, who says Albanians need

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Despite crisis, Turkish investments in Albania grew by 50 percent

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By Rudina Hoxha On the eve Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to Albania on May 14, the commerce counsellor at the Turkish Embassy in Tirana, Muharrem Can, underlines in an

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What unites us

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Joint Article by the Foreign Ministers of the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia The 10th anniversary of the European Union’s enlargement. Europe was in a celebratory mood the night of

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Protecting the current and future elderly

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By Tahseen Sayed* Albania’s pension system is in need of reforms to address among other issues the implications of changing demographics. The population is aging. Even now, when Albania is still young,

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Europe’s Security Catalyst

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By Ditmir Bushati Russia’s annexation of Crimea and ongoing threats against Ukraine are a reminder to the countries of Eastern Europe, particularly those in the Balkans, of NATO’s centrality to national –

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Op-Ed - Page 82

NATO’s Ankara Summit and Albania’s Uncertain Moment

A salute to America

From the Nile to the Balkans

What getting EU candidate status means and the challenges ahead

Looking back on the past 20 years through rose-coloured lences

‘Beyond any doubt, with no conditionality or reservations’

Progress towards the EU requires resolute, sustained and cooperative action

Awakening civil society and fighting national stereotypes

LGBTI rights are human rights

Hantke: Albania should get candidate status to ‘be more motivated for the next steps’

Despite crisis, Turkish investments in Albania grew by 50 percent

What unites us

Protecting the current and future elderly

Europe’s Security Catalyst

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