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Editorial Board The Prime Minister spent Wednesday arguing with a party that holds ten seats in a parliament of seven hundred and twenty. Two posts, two videos, a Latin proverb from his grandmother, a...
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Ana Brnabić has placed a demonstration for men presumed innocent beside state honours for a man finally convicted of genocide. Her argument depends on treating those as the same thing. By Ardit Rada (Tirana)...
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Drizan Shala , Security Desk Major General Jasper Jeffers, commander of the International Stabilization Force for Gaza, was received in Tirana on Tuesday by Ferit Hoxha at the foreign ministry and then...
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When a judge earns ten times what a police chief earns and twelve times what a teacher earns, the argument has stopped being about judicial independence. It is about a caste the state itself is minting....
An activist told Iris Luarasi she had forfeited the right to speak for women. Luarasi said her accusers had forfeited the name of activism. Tuesday’s argument was larger than either claim. Tirana Examiner...
Read religion, language and chancery practice as nationality, and Albanians disappear from the past by category rather than by fact. by Maringlen Cara (Tirana) In 1623 Pjetër Mazreku sent Rome a report...
Albania had already condemned Mladić when he died, and its prime minister spoke before he was buried. Tuesday’s statement did something different: it placed Tirana formally inside the European response...
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Belgrade buried a general, Brussels defined a funeral, and a foreign minister explained that everyone is guilty. Tirana is in the audience. Ngadhnjim Brovina , Regional Affairs Belgrade buried a general,...
The opposition leader crossed the ocean he had been told he would never cross again. The community that received him is not one community, and part of it has learned to act without him. By Klea Ukaj ,...
The Newsroom (Tirana) Paolo Zampolli, President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy for Global Partnerships, spent Monday in Tirana in a series of meetings with Albanian government officials, representatives...
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Marta Kos cited a final judgment. Vučić called her explanation stupid and answered as if Serbia still gets to decide what The Hague already did. Ngadhnjim Brovina (Regional Affairs desk) Aleksandar Vučić...
Albania built independent institutions to keep politics out. Constitutional maturity requires those institutions to recognise the boundary in the other direction, too. A Legal Desk editorial “Secili institucion...
When a security regulation bars a defendant’s chosen lawyer from the courtroom, the court has stopped being one. By Ylli Manjani Editor’s note: The author is a former Minister of Justice. The piece answers...
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Editorial Board On 22 March, in the Hard Talks chair, our founder was asked whether the thought that produced this publication had been worth acting on. Alban Bici declined to answer . Ask me in five years,...
Tirana Examiner Staff Report | Cernobbio and Tirana Prime Minister Edi Rama used his first appearance at the Ambrosetti forum in Cernobbio on Saturday to restate his case for the gradual integration of...
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Mother Teresa belonged to the world. She also said, “By blood, I am Albanian.” The life behind that sentence belongs to a nation that has never had one religion. By Maringlen Cara (Tirana) “By blood, I...
Albanian law lets a prosecutor authorize up to fifteen days of covert photography, filming or video surveillance in public, and location tracking, without prior judicial authorization or validation. Continuation...
Sputnik Srbija has told its readers how to hear the EU’s new ambassador before he has said anything. Belgrade tested the method on KFOR’s commander three weeks ago; the platform is one Brussels asked it...
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The European Democrats posted an accusation in a picture and a question in the caption. Edi Rama was right to answer the picture. By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) At three minutes past one on Thursday afternoon,...
Friedrich Merz says the people behind Leipzig will pay. A Serbian court has already convicted Serbian nationals for an operation in Berlin directed by Russian intelligence. Germany’s most indulged Balkan...
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Klodiana Spahiu is the first Rama health minister who is a physician and has run a hospital outside Tirana. That is the combination the ministry has been missing. Tirana Examiner Asked on Thursday what...
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Prime Minister Edi Rama has nominated Klodiana Spahiu, a cardiologist and Deputy Speaker of the Assembly, as Minister of Health and Social Welfare, a day after Evis Sala resigned from the post. Rama confirmed...
The prime minister announces the Merit Ladder recruitment system, weekly constituency sessions from this Friday, a performance module of 100 points for Socialist MPs, and the first public release under...
A mayor in pretrial detention keeps the mandate the voters gave him. The signature is another matter, and the law that governs it does not recognize a municipality run from a cell. Erion Veliaj, mayor...
We take Evis Sala at her word about why she is leaving. The record of why she should have is the harder document. Editorial Board At 14:37 on Wednesday, before most of the country knew there had been a...
Three days, two Alpine forums, a US under secretary, a Commissioner, a Director-General and the EU’s Kosovo–Serbia envoy. The Foreign Minister closed the sequence with a live interview from Slovenia on...
Europe can impose costs. Serbia has learned what raises them. Albania has not learned what happens to an applicant that never does. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) On the afternoon of 1 September, at a press conference...
Washington’s Balkan calendar prices uncertainty. Albania has none to sell. by Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) Go to state.gov and search the spokesperson’s releases for the three Western Balkan foreign ministers...
The Flamingo protests earned a reputation. What sat at Rama’s back gate on Tuesday is spending it. by Drizan Shala (Security Desk) For most of the summer the world’s coverage of Tirana said the same thing....
Tirana gave Germany the sharpest sentence of the day. Berlin will file it where it files everything from Albania. Tirana Examiner Editorial Board Edi Rama posted on Tuesday evening, in English only , that...
