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Albatros Rexhaj Germany knows who Alexander Dugin is. It knows better than anyone in Europe. Last December the Foreign Office called in the Russian ambassador and said, on the record, that Russia had run...
Prime Minister puts the toll at some 200 police officers and 80 protesters injured, says masked youths were “paid and brought in from the peripheries”, and asks teachers to keep a diary of these days TE...
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Tirana Examiner Newsroom On the seventh day of the protests that began on 13 October, Prime Minister Edi Rama spoke four times on Monday, in three written posts and one televised statement delivered standing...
For five nights the German embassy in Tirana could not find a word for the masks. Then it found a table. Before the Chancellor meets Edi Rama, Berlin should know who its ambassador intends to seat at it....
Tirana Examiner Newsroom Thirteen. Fourteen. Fifteen. On a Monday morning when every school in Tirana was open, children of that age stood in front of the Kryeministria in numbers this publication’s reporters...
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A veteran of 1997 says the quiet part first: Albania is a democracy, and in a democracy governments change through votes. Tirana Examiner Newsroom Daniel Serwer has seen Tirana burn before. He was in Albania...
Maringlen Cara The Prime Minister asked one question in his live address yesterday and nobody has answered it. Dialogue, he said, certainly. With or without cameras, at the faculty, wherever you want....
An open letter to the Ambassador of the United States Editorial Board Your embassy spoke on Friday night at eleven o’clock. Three sentences. Violence is not civic engagement. Protest peacefully. Restraint...
Tirana, 18 October 2026, morning Prime Minister Edi Rama addressed the violent protests in Tirana this morning from the boulevard, speaking with a paving stone in his hand. He said the violence is seeking...
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In 1997 Alexander Dugin wrote Albania into his map. In 2019 he told the Serbs they had awakened the multipolar world. On Saturday night, as Albanian institutions burned, he found an Albanian awakening....
Albatros Rexhaj Last night on Sokol Balla’s Real Story I said the Socialist Party is in the middle of a civil war . Today Elisa Spiropali put her name to it . I am grateful. For a year this war was fought...
On day three the police held one boulevard and lost the city. The targets, the formation behind the masks, the photograph the EU Delegation gave the party posing with them, and the lie aimed at the police....
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Editorial Board “Yesterday they backed the protest, today the EU Delegation asks the students for restraint: We strongly condemn the escalation of violence and the destruction of property” (“Dje mbështetën...
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Serbia buries Mladić with honours and keeps every chair. Tirana burns and gets seven sentences for the police. The Europe Edi Rama invested twelve years in no longer exists, and the one that does will...
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On Wednesday the Union told the Albanian police to hold back, received the opposition’s account in its own office, and said nothing to the men with the petrol. A security assessment of what a crowd does...
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On the afternoon Tirana burned, the EU ambassador received the opposition’s interlocutor in the Union’s own office and published nothing. The opposition published the photograph and the readout. Either...
The Iute Credit branch on Rruga e Durrësit burned on Tuesday and again on Wednesday, a fifteen-minute walk from the EU Delegation. The Delegation found seven sentences for the police and none for the fire....
A declaration with plenty of words, and the only word that mattered was not among them. Albatros Rexhaj For twelve years the European Union has told Albania what the rule of law is. It is a state that...
After a night of violence in Tirana, the EU Delegation found specific words for the police and none for those who attacked the city’s institutions. Ardit Rada The European Union Delegation in Tirana did...
The street is chanting “Rama in jail” and throwing petrol at a ministry, and the flag of the Holy See is lying on a Tirana pavement. Jorida Tabaku has told the embassies it was self-defence. The EU Delegation,...
By nine on Tuesday the state had denied that two students were dying. Two hours later the claim was louder than before, a 1,400-follower account in Germany was on Serbian front pages, and nobody in Tirana...
The Newsroom Article 47 of the Albanian Constitution guarantees the freedom of peaceful assembly, without arms. Article 11 of the European Convention protects the same thing, in the same words: peaceful....
By Maringlen Cara (Tirana) There is a point at which a protest stops being a protest. Tirana crossed it at three o’clock on Tuesday. The students came to the Ministry of Education at two, with banners...
The people who set Tirana alight on Tuesday did not challenge Edi Rama’s authority. They supplied him with the one argument he did not have to invent. Editorial Board | Tirana Examiner By the time the...
The court administration builds the obstacle, the court fines the lawyer who objects, and the man in pretrial detention pays the price. By Ylli Manjani Editor’s note: Ylli Manjani is a former Albanian...
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar met Prime Minister Edi Rama, Foreign Minister Ferit Hoxha and Speaker Niko Peleshi. Hoxha raised Israel’s recognition of Kosovo and confirmed Albania’s contribution...
Jared Kushner says his partnership paid €230 million for Albanian land, and he has accepted Albania’s final authority over the project. A potential €4 billion investment should not be sacrificed to political...
The American ambassador will not sit with Sali Berisha. He sits with Berisha’s deputies, who say SPAK must be protected. Hours later Berisha calls SPAK the sworn enemy of pluralism. One party, two voices,...
By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) Ivica Dačić was born in Prizren. So was I. He was born on 1 January 1966. His father was a Serbian policeman who had come from Serbia on a posting to our city. Those were the...
A Serbian deputy prime minister has promised his voters a flag over Prizren. Tirana’s answer has to be read with the sentence Edi Rama put on the record in March: if Kosovo is touched, Albania is touched....
