Albania's Prime Minister rules out Tirana as the venue of the alliance summit

13 November 2026

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, speaking at Dublin, said there is no common position yet on when the next summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will be held, and that it will certainly not be in 2027. He added that if a summit is held in 2028 it will be at Tirana. An alliance official said the next summit will be held in Albania, but that no date has been set. Albania joined the alliance in 2009 together with Croatia, and Tirana is its capital. The alliance's summits bring together heads of state and government of the member countries and are the occasion at which its main political decisions are taken. Its headquarters are at Brussels.