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Bulgaria’s relations with Albania and Kosovo are unusual in the Balkans. They are not burdened by territorial disputes, competing historical claims or a legacy of bilateral conflict. This gives Sofia, Tirana and Pristina political space for cooperation that is rare in the region. by Dimitar Keranov Bulgaria’s relations with Albania and Kosovo are unusual …
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By Ferit Hoxha Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Albania. There are moments in history when the future of a country is determined by a single document. Such agreements are rare, but their impact is felt for generations. The Ohrid Framework Agreement is one of them. On 13 August 2001, …
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Ukraine spent four years teaching small nations that principles do not depend on power. On Saturday one of them learned who the lessons were for. By Kadri Kryeziu (Prizren) No leader of this century has preached the morality of borders with more force than Ukraine’s president, and none has earned the pulpit more. To …
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Brussels condemned a Serbian minister’s sentence about 1998 and missed the clause about the future. Europe has missed this program before. Twice, at Berlin and at London, it certified the outcome instead. By Ngadhnjim Brovina (Pristina) Brussels condemned the wrong sentence. Within two days of Snežana Paunović’s interview on Kurir, the Commission had declared …
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Ukraine sought another European partner in Belgrade. Within twenty-four hours, one Serbian minister had already assured Moscow where Serbia’s loyalties lay. The conference produced photographs; the contradiction was the strategy. By Ngadhnjim Brovina (Pristina) On Monday, at the Innoprom industrial fair in Yekaterinburg, Serbia’s minister for economic cooperation with Russia, Nenad Popović, told TASS what …
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Kosovo’s struggle centered on recognition. Montenegro’s centers on definition. Ngadhnjim Brovina On 12 May, the assembly of a municipality on the edge of Podgorica voted to annul the Republic of Kosovo. The municipality was Zeta. The vote was advanced by Milan Knežević’s Democratic People’s Party and carried by the eighteen councilors of the “For …
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by Mark Gojcaj | Tirana Examiner, US – International On Thursday morning, Sali Berisha walked into the Albanian parliament and delivered four words from the rostrum: “I came, it is done.” Democratic Party deputies applauded. Outside the chamber, he told journalists that official communication had confirmed the lifting of his American travel ban. Asked …
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By Klea Ukaj | Tirana Examiner, Washington Desk On Monday, Senator Bernie Sanders informed his nine million followers that “over a hundred thousand people” were in the streets of “tiny Albania” protesting an “environmentally disastrous luxury resort” built by Jared Kushner and his Qatari partners. This, he declared, “is what global oligarchy looks like.” …
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Daniel Serwer delivered these remarks in Tirana on 28 May 2026, at an event organized by the Albanian Institute for International Studies, where Albert Rakipi posed the question that gives the talk its title. Serwer is Professor and Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and …
