para 21 orë - Tirana Examiner
By Skënder Minxhozi (Tirana) In truth, these are two small, disoriented protests, plus a couple of dozen vandals who draw only the attention of the media and the police, without moving a single ordinary...
para 2 dite - Tirana Examiner
On 4 November the European Commission wrote that Serbia hosts pro-Kremlin news channels. Two days later the editor-in-chief of those channels thanked her Belgrade staff. The incoming majority has said...
Albania’s only international airport has been under persistent open-source surveillance by a Serbian-linked collection account since the unrest began. The method is cheap, legal and complete except for...
Rama Derangement Syndrome is the conviction that one man is behind everything wrong with Albania, a conviction the Prime Minister has helped feed by casting himself as a marathon runner with 2030 as the...
Ambassador Wendt announced his assessment on Thursday and promised to meet the business community. One of the voices he will hear speaks in his government’s name, lists his embassy as a member and seats...
Kos asked the Student List for strategic alignment on Wednesday. On Thursday its candidate told AFP that no sanctions on Russia is written into the programme, and the Commission’s own report explains why...
para 4 dite - Tirana Examiner
Albania will not join the European Union, and the reason is not in Tirana. By the Editorial Board Sali Berisha read the Commission’s Albania report on Thursday and arrived where this publication already...
An opposition leader asked for prison for two journalists and a commentator. A journalist was stoned in the street and two commentators were named from a stage as next, with death in the comments underneath....
Strapline: The EU ambassador handed the Commission’s 2026 Albania Report to the President, the Prime Minister and the Speaker on Thursday. Rama called it the best report the country has ever received....
Two months before his arrest, Agasi was lining up the incoming US ambassador with a media owner, a television interview and the head of SHISH, and the man he was planning it with is saved in his phone...
para 5 dite - Tirana Examiner
A state that asks to raise its flag outside the Berlaymont cannot let a neighbour treat that flag as an offence. Ferit Hoxha let Podgorica do it twice and thanked it, because Berlin wants Montenegro in...
Albania’s foreign minister met the Minister of State for Europe, members of two Bundestag committees and a think-tank audience on 3 and 4 November, and posted six readouts. His German hosts posted none....
para 6 dite - Tirana Examiner
In a week of talking, Veliaj’s lawyer attacked the signature on the Nesti Angoni submission and never its content. Read as a prosecutor reads it, that leaves the file standing. The court letter that followed...
A week of the Veliaj–Rama story, sorted into what is on paper, what one side says, what was said by people who were not in the room, and the one fact that never came up. The Newsroom On 28 October the...
para 7 dite - Tirana Examiner
A French historian told Tirana what foreign interference looks like. The same week, the Russian ideologue who claimed the riots as his revolution supplied the enemy, and within a day a Belgrade-briefed...
A Montenegrin court called the Albanian eagle a foreign symbol and an insult, and sanctioned four Albanian minors in Kotor for it. The ambassador called the judges honourable and the case isolated, the...
Channel 5 released its Albania documentary on 2 November, four weeks after promising the Rama interview “next week”. The film says one thing about Sazan and its host says another in the room. Rama answers...
para një jave - Tirana Examiner
Germany got through its night of masked men with no ministry burned and a sentence ready by morning. Tirana got five nights, a drone and a table it had not asked for. Before the ambassador reads this as...
Albania’s Defence Minister on an industry that has not started, a recording that proves nothing, a court case, a summit, Kosovo, Turkey and the war already under way in Europe Tirana Examiner Newsroom...
Albania has taxed them at the same rate since it first had a VAT. The 2027 package is the most European thing Tirana has put before the Assembly on tax in a decade. By Bekim Besimi (Venice) In the shop...
A published recording in which a media owner’s adviser describes prosecution files closed as a favour is, in law, notice of a crime. The Criminal Procedure Code says what the Special Prosecution must do...
CNA has published recordings in which Irfan Hysenbelliu and his adviser describe a claim of 300 to 600 million euros against Albania, an arbitrator secured in advance, six prosecution files closed as a...
Prime minister announces consultation and longer school hours; People’s Advocate identifies failures in police treatment of detained children; Justice Ministry proposes procedural safeguards; Education...
The head of the OSCE Presence in Albania went to Elbasan to tell the young their voice was not heard, in the week their prime minister’s invitations were refused and the only door the state closed was...
Every morning for a week the Prime Minister has set a table on his own steps. The guests have knocked it over, burned it and written “resignation” on it. The capitals that preach dialogue to Albania have...
Serbia voted out Vučić, but not his policy towards Russia. Brussels celebrated a European breakthrough while Moscow received the one assurance it needed: nothing would change. By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana)...
by Ngadhnjim Brovina (Regional Affairs Desk) On the night of 25 October, Marta Kos congratulated Serbia on “nearly two years of protests for democracy, the rule of law and the fight against corruption”...
para 2 jave - Tirana Examiner
Brussels needed one night to lecture Albania and nine months to caution Serbia. Its own Parliament had already documented Belgrade’s abuses. The difference is not what the two governments do to their citizens,...
Prime Minister Edi Rama used his Sunday address to present a six-part legal package against what he called urban violence and anarchy, drafted with European experts and modelled on recent French and Italian...
Editorial Board On 22 October, while shop windows on the boulevard were still being boarded up, a statement went out in Tirana telling “all actors” to act constructively, reject violence and create the...
