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This weekend Edi Rama gathers his ministers for a retreat in Pogradec, armed with two strategic documents about the gap between power and the citizens. He himself appears in neither. This piece fills that...
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By Ylli Manjani , former Minister of Justice of Albania Translated from the Albanian original, published 14 August 2026. I cannot find a single genuinely successful political narrative from the opposition...
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Jasmin Mujanović mapped a region’s contradictions. Read backwards, they form something more dangerous: a method the world has seen before. By Ngadhnjim Brovina (Prishtina) On Friday the political scientist...
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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,...
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Russia has spent 148 years choosing Serbia at the expense of Albanians. Its own arithmetic no longer explains why. By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) Last week this publication published a letter to the Ambassador...
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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,...
Serbia’s minister called borders sacrosanct, listed Ukraine, China and Cyprus, then added Albania “of course.” The reassurance is the warning. The Editorial Board On Monday a minister of the Serbian government...
Belgrade named the Albanians, then objected when Albania answered. The record requires correcting. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) On Monday, Serbia’s foreign minister Marko Đurić published a lengthy statement...
Albania answered the river announcement with Serbia’s own treaty file. The file says more than the statement does. By Drizan Shala While Serbia’s president was explaining to reporters in Prijepolje that...
The Newsroom (Tirana) Albania has expressed deep concern over the statement by Serbia’s president, Aleksandar Vučić, on the possibility of changing the course of the Ibër (Ibar) river, with Minister for...
An open letter to the Embassy of Ukraine in Tirana By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) On 9 August the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs published its statement on President Zelenskyy’s visit to Serbia....
The euro has slipped below the number this magazine pressed the Economy Minister on a month ago. As the currency chart becomes the loudest exhibit in Albania’s dirty money argument, we turn the Hard Talks...
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...
By Ylli Manjani , former Minister of Justice of Albania Anyone who follows the course of criminal proceedings with care, particularly those before the Special Court against Corruption and Organized Crime...
What the Verona proceedings hold for Albania is a lesson in procedure, and almost no one in Tirana is reading the procedure. A Legal Desk editorial On 3 July 2025, the chief prosecutor of Verona, Raffaele...
by Mero Baze (Tirana) After 25 months in a cell, the Special Anti-Corruption Court ordered the immediate release of Ilir Beqaj in the courtroom itself, because the deadlines for pre-trial detention had...
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SPAK’s proposal is not dangerous because its intentions are suspect. It is dangerous because democratic institutions are designed to restrain even the most virtuous among them. Drizan Shala Should we be...
The lightest charge in the procurement chapter is carrying the heaviest file in SPAK’s building. A Legal Desk reading of the Balluku case. By Renada Bici , Legal Desk Belinda Balluku was summoned to the...
Albania has caught the eye of Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. We meet prime minister Edi Rama as he attempts to head off protests against plans for a new kind of luxury tourism. Writer: Guy De...
SPAK’s chief says the law already allows his investigators to make arrests. He is right. That is not the question. Renada Bici , Legal Desk When officers of the National Bureau of Investigation arrested...
Serbia announced a consulate exchange fourteen weeks after the talks and two months into Albania’s streets. The timing was not careless. The timing was the policy. Tirana Examiner On Thursday morning,...
The Newsroom (Tirana) Prime Minister Edi Rama presented a new internal party document to the Socialist Party leadership on Thursday, telling regional political directors and the chairs of the parliamentary...
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Ten organizations signed a declaration lecturing Albania’s elected institutions on evidence, transparency and independence. The declaration fails all three tests. Its authors fail them first. By Ardit...
A new database announces that the Albanian state has given away 2.1 million square meters of its coast. The official acts say otherwise. The first number will travel farther than the correction. By Bekim...
Channel 4 News, 29 July 2026 Reported by Lindsey Hilsum , International Editor Full transcript of the broadcast report and the interview with Prime Minister Edi Rama. Prepared from the transcript published...
European capitals court Belgrade on the standing assumption that the Albanians are the region’s compliant party, endlessly patient, endlessly available, priced at zero. Ferit Hoxha’s statement of 27 July...
New polling suggests the summer’s protest wave cost Edi Rama support that was real, narrow, and temporary. The opposition captured none of it. On 13 June, at the height of Albania’s summer of protest,...
by Renada Bici (Legal Examiner Desk) On the ninth of December 2024, in the Treaty Room of the United States Department of State, Secretary Antony Blinken conferred his government’s Anti-Corruption Champions...
A week in Tirana in which every institution was asked, one way or another, whose voice is whose. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) Sometime in the past week, and nobody outside a small circle knows exactly when,...
by Edi Rama (Prime Minister of Albania) I have come today to speak to you about what we saw and heard during the month of June, when the boulevard filled with people from every walk of life, every social...
