Today: Jul 09, 2026

Op-Ed - Page 87

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).
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).

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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EU postpones Albania’s candidate status

The negative answer, the third in a row since Albania applied for EU membership in 2009, was not a surprise, as political conflict has stalled reforms, and the EU wants to see
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Albania’s democratic authoritarianism

Interview with Dr. Bernd Fischer In the final analysis, democracy has not been fully established in Albania, says Bernd Fischer, one of the leading foreign scholars on Albania and professor at Indiana
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Greece in crisis: A success story gone wrong

-From the economic point of view, what is the situation like in Greece now, after the instatement of the new administration and the severe storms that the country is passing through? Greece
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Cultural Exchanges between the U.S. and Albania

By: Naum Prifti In any comparative study, a certain degree of proportionality is admittedly assumed or implied. Yet, looking at the subject at hand; i.e. the cultural exchanges between the US and
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Albania-China, two different views

Albania’s Chinese Connection By Janusz Bugajski China is poised to re-enter Albania, only this time not through a communist ideological alliance as in the 1960s but with economic investments and financial promises.
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