Kosovo’s President visit to the north to provoke partition, says PM Haradinaj
Kosovo’s Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj said Tuesday the only way to keep alive President’s proposal on correction of border with Serbia, is provoking unrest in the northern part of the country inhabited by Serbs. He made the comments a day after President Hashim Thaci urged the Prime Minister to “correct” …
Serbian Police arrest attackers on two Albanians in Novi Sad
Four people have been arrested in Serbia’s northern city of Novi Sad suspected of attacking two young Albanians over the weekend. Original post Here
Land swap proposal has exposed deep rift of Kosovo President, Prime Minister
Kosovo’s President and its prime minister are in sharp disagreement over the proposal on “correction of border” which is put forward by the President and is strongly opposed by Prime Minister. PM Ramush Haradinaj said Monday the correction of border idea “is dead’ and expressed “his condolences” to all supporters …
Kosovo defends KLA values through a special law
Parliament’s Committee on Education has approved on Monday the Draft Law on defending the values of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) war which fought Serbian forces during 1998-99 liberation war of Kosovo. Original post Here
Two youngsters severely beaten up in Serbia for speaking Albanian
Two Albanian youngsters both born in 1999, were left with life-threatening injuries after a group of Serbs in the town of Novi Sad attacked them on Monday. Authorities in Serbia announced that one of the Albanians was received in hospital with life-threatening injuries including a skull fracture. Original post Here
Kosovo’s opposition working on snap elections
Leader of the opposition party, LDK, Isa Mustafa, said they are preparing to return to power and he is working for early elections to stop, as he said, misgovernment, Gazeta Express reports. Original post Here
Kosovo’s PM Haradinaj pledges to defend territorial integrity publicly challenging President Thaci
Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj attending a public event Friday with President Hashim Thaci openly opposed a proposal put forward by him on correction of border with Serbia. Both leaders were attending an inauguration of the memorial complex dedicated to the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) fallen soldiers. Both Thaci and …
Kosovo Army to guard border with Serbia, says President Thaci
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci attending reburial ceremony of 157 members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in the Drenica region, who died fighting Serbian forces during 1998-99 Kosovo war, said that the KLA made the impossible reality. Original post Here
Duchich: Thaci’s visit at Gazivoda, for internal political consumption
Colonel Nick Ducich, commander of the US KFOR troops in Kosovo, says situation in Kosovo is calm and stable. Commenting the visit of Kosovo president Hashim Thaci at Gazivoda lake last week, The US Colonel who is Serb ancestry said his visit is more for internal political consumption. Original post …
Kosovo’s President met his former enemies while visiting Serb controlled north
President Hashim Thaci who last week made a surprise rare visit to the northern part of Kosovo inhabited and controlled by Serbs, said that he chatted with local Serbs and some of them were his former adversaries during “armed conflict” in Kosovo. Thaci during the 1998-99 war in Kosovo was …
TIRANA, December 26, 2025 – Albania’s decade-long construction boom, long portrayed as a sign of growth and urban renewal, is increasingly being scrutinized as a vehicle for laundering illicit capital. A new study by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, combined with years of investigative reporting and analysis by Tirana Times, points …
Tirana Times, 25 December, 2025 – On September 15, 2023, Ergys Agasi, 36, founded a company with a capital of 1 thousand lek (10 euros) with activity in the field of information technology. Under the name EA Solutions, the company had a rapid activity. In the balance sheet filed with …
As artificial intelligence reshapes economic competitiveness and state capacity, indexes like the Government AI Readiness Index serve not merely as technical rankings, but as indicators of national strategic priorities. In this sense, Saudi Arabia has moved decisively from regional ambition toward global relevance, even as the global hierarchy of AI …
Despite political tensions sparked by high-profile corruption cases, Klodjan Braho tells BIRN that his main priority will be to guarantee Albanians that “no one is above the law”. Original post Here
By Tirana Times Tirana, December 23, 2025 – Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defence Olta Xhaçka appeared on Tuesday at the premises of the Special Anti-Corruption and Organized Crime Structure (SPAK), where she remained for approximately two hours before leaving without making any statement to the media. Xhaçka declined to …
Tirana Times, December 22, 2025 – Tirana witnessed a major opposition-led protest on Saturday, as Albania’s main opposition force, the Democratic Party, together with allied groups, demanded the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama and his government. The demonstration was framed not as a routine political rally, but as a …
Supporters of the opposition Democratic Party demonstrated in Tirana against Edi Rama’s government after anti-corruption prosecutors indicted his deputy prime minister and raided officials at the National Information Agency. Original post Here
Security in the Western Balkans is no longer defined only by borders and armies, but by the strength of institutions, public trust and the ability to withstand modern pressure. In an interview with the Albanian Institute for International Studies (AIIS), Arjan Starova, former Albanian foreign minister and President of the …
Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region. Original post Here
Tirana, Tirana Times, 20 December 2025 – The investigation launched by Albania’s Special Anti-Corruption Prosecution has revealed the existence of a structured criminal group operating within the leadership of the National Agency for Information Society, AKSHI. At the center of the case stand the agency’s director and deputy director, accused …