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By Adriatik Doçi (Tirana) From a hurricane that shook the government and the political class as a whole, the “Flamingo” protest, in its fifth week, has ended up as an ordinary parade, settling into the...
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by Keler Marku (Washington D.C) They accuse PM Edi Rama of selling 4 billion dollars of Albania’s flamingo infused land for a smile from someone whose office is not far away from where I am writing this...
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Editorial Board | Tirana Examiner The Secretary General ended the speculation in Ankara. The real uncertainty was never Albania’s ability to host, but whether NATO will continue holding annual summits...
The Progressive International flew into Tirana, marched for a week, flew home, and published a verdict. What it did not publish is evidence. A close reading of the dossier that convicted Edi Rama by layout....
Ukraine sought another European partner in Belgrade. Within twenty-four hours, one Serbian minister had already assured Moscow where Serbia’s loyalties lay. The conference produced photographs; the contradiction...
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The Joint Colleges rewrote Albania’s pretrial detention doctrine without touching a single sentence of the 2011 precedent. That is precisely why it will hold. By Renada Bici | Legal Desk, Tirana Examiner...
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In Albanian custom, the fortieth day is when the dead are commemorated. The flamingo revolution has just reached its own, and the flamingos have taken their holidays elsewhere. By Ylli Manjani , former...
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The Economy Minister argues that Albania’s growth rests on tourism, investment and reform, not criminal capital. As the “narco-state” narrative spreads through European politics and media, we ask Delina...
by Skënder Minxhozi (Tirana) At the World Cup in South Africa years ago, a background noise like the buzzing of bees accompanied the matches, following the entire game. These were the famous African vuvuzelas,...
A response to the open letter of eleven UK based Albanian associations By Ardit Rada (Tirana) Eleven Albanian associations in the United Kingdom, among them the student societies of Cambridge, LSE, UCL...
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Serbia’s minister stood at Khamenei’s funeral because Tehran judged that he had earned the place Drizan Shala On the third of July, in the vast hall of Tehran’s Grand Mosalla, the coffin of Ali Khamenei...
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Prime Minister Edi Rama used his weekly podcast to address several policy and governance matters: the June normative budget act and its package of citizen support measures, the ongoing boulevard protests...
Renada Bici ( Tirana Examiner Legal Desk) On Friday, the Coordinating Group of the protest movement delivered a formal declaration to the State Police and to the embassies of friendly states . It invoked...
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(Narco-Patriots, continued) The political class diagnoses a narco-state. The data point instead to tourism, capital flows, and a textbook case of structural transformation. by K eler Marku (Washington...
A country sees pink: In Albania, protests are taking place against a planned luxury resort by the Trump family. It’s long since become about more than just a construction project – it’s about criticism...
Albania does not run on drug money, and its prosecutors never behaved as if it did. The dependency myth survives anyway, because it has customers, and some of them are hostile. By Bekim Besimi (Venice)...
By Drizan Shala , Security Desk Violence inside a protest movement is never a single data point. It is a signal that must be read against the movement’s trajectory, and on Day 33 of the Tirana protests...
The prime minister defends the coastal development program, rejects claims of public land privatization, and rules out resignation as protests enter their second month. Speaking to Deutsche Welle on the...
In four days of coordinated statements, the governing majority has distinguished the movement’s legitimate grievances from its violent and utopian fringe, received an unexpected endorsement of that distinction...
The 33rd day of Albania’s protest movement produced its most serious confrontation to date. Clashes outside Parliament on Thursday morning left 15 police officers injured, according to the State Police,...
Thirty days into the protest movement, the crowd outside the Kuvend crossed from ritual insult into violence. A reconstruction of July 2, hour by hour, and what it cost the movement that committed it....
Renada Bici (Tirana Examiner Legal Desk) On the evening of July 1, from a stage in front of the Prime Minister’s office, a call went out to surround the Kuvend, Albania’s parliament, and prevent its deputies...
The cold arithmetic of a very warm country by Keler Marku (Washington D.C) In the spring of 2026, tens of thousands of Albanians took to the streets of Tirana. They called it the Flamingo Revolution —...
By Ylli Manjani (Tirana) There are commentators who say it with a strange calm: “Come on. They only threw eggs. No harm done.” Very well. What exactly must happen before we agree that we are looking at...
Six demonstrators, among them a leading figure of the movement, were detained during the sharpest confrontation since the anti-government wave began, then released within hours as crowds gathered outside...
Ardit Rada (Tirana) A member of the European Parliament published an ordinary letter as evidence of corruption. The letter was real. The corruption was the frame. On 16 June, the evening before the Parliament...
Solidarity with a protest is open to any member of the European Parliament. The deployment of the Parliament’s authority against an elected government is a different act, and it travels under the same...
A fabricated story about an Albanian island helped ignite the protests convulsing Tirana. Now a United States senator has made it the centerpiece of his re-election. Tirana Examiner Picture the scene in...
They speak of reform. The letter they sent to the ambassadors describes something else: the transfer of power from elected institutions to an unelected authority. Albatros Rexhaj The letter from the Protest...
Kreshnik Spahiu asked the question no foreign correspondent will. The days since have answered it for him. by Elis Zenelaj (Tirana) The wire went up overnight. The people of Zvërnec walked down to the...
