Our selection of Premium stories this week takes a look at future goals as well as lost opportunities from the past. Vjosa Osmani answers questions after delivering a speech in Berlin, October 2025.

Fed by demand for new guns and leftovers from depots looted in the 1990s, Albania has become a key hub for small-arms trafficking. On March 10, two men were arrested in Tirana in possession of six Sig ...

The two countries’ failure to maintain liaisons to the EU’s criminal justice agency – partly for political reasons – is a setback to vital cooperation against cross-border organised crime groups. In ...

The race has been a showdown between an experienced but visibly aged and increasingly authoritarian Orban, and a rock star-like newcomer Magyar with a rare talent for social media and endless energy ...

The Greek government will ban children under 15 years old from using TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, saying the goal is 'to push the EU in this direction as well'. Photo illustration: ...

Is a decline in Freedom of Information requests last year in Albania a result of greater institutional transparency or the increasing pointlessness of the process? Journalists claim it could be a ...

Kosovo will face a much more hostile international environment if far-right parties gain more power in core EU states like France and Germany, while the US under Trump remains indifferent to the ...

Orban’s motive for clashing with the EU and Ukraine over the halt in oil through the Druzhba pipeline is clear. Less understandable is why Fico is following him into a confrontation where the ...

US vice president heaps praise on Hungary’s right-wing leader in a late attempt to swing the weekend election Viktor Orban’s way. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban welcomes US Vice President JD ...

One man was killed, two others were captured and two police officers were wounded after a gunfight erupted near a building housing the Israeli consulate in Istanbul. The building that houses the ...