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by Renada Bici , Legal Desk On May 7, 2026, a letter signed by David McAllister, in his capacities as Chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs and Vice-President of the European...
Sali Berisha used Europe Day to attack the European Union’s ambassador in Tirana. Brussels responded the same day. The pattern is now legible. Ardit Rada There is a question that has hovered over Albanian...
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The Newsroom The European Union responded on May 9 with statements from both its member state ambassadors accredited to Albania and a spokesperson in Brussels, condemning what the institution described...
Prime Minister Edi Rama used the eighteenth episode of the sixth season of his weekly podcast, Flasim, to address several policy and governance matters: Albania’s EU accession progress marked on Europe...
Prime Minister and head of EU Delegation appear jointly at Europe Week opening, pushing back against the opposition narrative that accession negotiations have stalled. President Begaj, Foreign Minister...
The Newsroom The eighth in the series of street protests called by Democratic Party leader Sali Berisha, held on Thursday evening on Boulevard Dëshmorët e Kombit in central Tirana, drew the smallest crowd...
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The Commission cleared Albania’s IBAR. North Macedonia changed its name. Yet Johann Wadephul’s enlargement vision leaves untouched the architecture that allows member states to convert technical compliance...
The Newsroom Tirana hosted the opening session of the World Law Congress on Thursday, the first formal step in a programme of preparatory events that will culminate in the 30th edition of the Congress...
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On the International Vocabulary That Misclassifies the Country by Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) The international commentary on Albania, in its English-language form, has acquired a vocabulary the country does...
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What an Empirical Audit Adds, and What Single-Source Evaluation Costs Tirana Examiner Between March 1 and May 5 of this year, a Tirana-based monitoring service recorded 4,536 political articles published...
What began as a reform to break impunity has produced a system where imbalance is built into the structure itself: the courtroom no longer functions as a space of neutral adjudication, but as one shaped...
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by Skënder Minxhozi (Tirana) As expected, the Joint Colleges unanimously approved the commendable initiative of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Sokol Sadushi, to unify judicial decisions related...
Tirana Examiner, Legal Desk For fifteen years, the standard governing pretrial detention in Albania asked whether “arrest në burg” was suitable for the case. As of May 4, 2026, it asks whether any less...
Foreign Minister Ferit Hoxha appeared before the Foreign Affairs Committee on Monday to brief deputies on the state of Albania’s EU accession negotiations, the Commission’s Interim Benchmark Assessment...
by Renada Bici (Legal Examiner Desk) An Albanian state institution received a foreign Justice Minister at its headquarters on 29 April. The Albanian Foreign Ministry was not informed. The episode is unusual...
The Newsroom The Democratic Party’s Commission for the Organization and Control of Electoral Operations has formally disqualified every announced challenger to Sali Berisha in the 23 May leadership contest,...
The Albanian prime minister presents new bronzes at Galerie Société and thirteen drawings at the Italian Embassy, then sits for a reverse interview with Fabrizio Bucci on Brussels, Ukraine, and Tirana’s...
Albatros Rexhaj Young democracies are not reformed through declarations. They are reformed through slow work inside existing structures, through arguments that are built, tested, and paid for over time....
At the Foreign Policy Forum 2026 organized by the Albanian Institute for International Studies (AIIS), Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Ferit Hoxha sets out a doctrine of flexibility in an unpredictable...
The Newsroom Albania signed a twenty-year liquefied natural gas agreement on Wednesday in Tirana, valued at six billion dollars across the term, structured around three counterparties: ALBGAZ on the Albanian...
27 April 2026 hearing, Council of High Prosecution Klodian Braho, who took over SPAK from Altin Dumani on 11 December 2025, presented his first annual report to the Council of High Prosecution on Monday,...
A permanent Hungarian Counter-Terrorism Center office opened inside Republika Srpska on 28 January 2026, without notification to the state institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Magyar government...
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The on-site mission has concluded. The accession-relevant question is not whether Tirana has demonstrated progress, but what the assessment methodology will actually measure, and what its findings will...
Judge Engjëllushe Tahiri denied requests to broadcast the trial live, to digitise the investigative file, and to remove the mayor from the glass enclosure. SPAK prosecutor Altin Dumani told the court the...
Prime Minister Edi Rama used the sixteenth episode of the sixth season of his weekly podcast, Flasim, to address several policy and governance matters: a solidarity visit to Abu Dhabi following attacks...
The Pandora Papers now name who paid for the DPA’s 2017 lobbying in Washington. Eight years on, the same operation runs through the same operator. by Klea Ukaj (Michigan) In May 2018, weeks after the United...
The moment Berisha speaks without filter is the moment his own apparatus intervenes. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) “I emphasized this moment, because if we, in a peaceful armed insurrection, do not show this...
Interview with Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Ferit Hoxha, on the program “World News” on Klan television 24 April 2026 Linda Karadaku: The main issue under discussion with Greece is the delimitation...
Tirana Examiner Briefing The Special Parliamentary Commission for Administrative-Territorial Reform took its consultation circuit to Gjirokastër on 24 April. Co-chairs Arbjan Mazniku (PS) and Luçiano Boçi...
One Ukrainian aggregator promoted a headline verb into a political alignment. Albanian media then laundered the label back across the border. By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) On Thursday evening, POLITICO Europe...
