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Russia’s Belgrade embassy has grown from 54 to 78 diplomats since the invasion while every neighbour cut theirs. The operations it is linked to targeted the accessions of Montenegro, North Macedonia and...
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The United States kept its chair in Tirana empty for three years. The town talked to the chair as if it were a throne. A letter to the man who sat down in it on Saturday. by Albatros Rexha j (Tirana) Welcome...
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In an address focused on artificial intelligence, the prime minister said a fabricated Israeli “takeover” narrative fed the Tirana mobilisation, announced an AI-based “digital mirror” to expose coordinated...
By Ardit Rada , EU Integration Desk On 18 September the Russian consulate general in Bonn closed its doors. The German government had announced the closure on 1 September, the day it concluded that Russia...
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By Drizan Shala (Security Desk) On the morning of 22 September, Albania learned that the director of its State Intelligence Service, SHISH, had been placed under house arrest and suspended from duty. The...
An open letter to the embassies of Albania’s NATO and EU partners, and to their intelligence and security services by Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) Excellencies, colleagues, You built SPAK. Your governments...
On 23 September 1998 the Security Council warned of a humanitarian catastrophe in Kosovo. On 23 September 2026 Serbia’s president told the General Assembly it never happened. Albania counted the people...
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Renada Bici (Legal Desk) On Tuesday a court prohibited publication of the Agasi decision under Article 103. On Wednesday the prosecution’s case against Vlora Hyseni, from the same investigation, was in...
Editorial Board On 26 May the European Union told Albania it had met the interim benchmarks for the fundamentals cluster and could start closing chapters. Three closed in July. The same day it set the...
Albania’s prosecutor has just suspended the country’s intelligence chief and the government let it happen. That is what Brussels asked for, and Tirana is graded as if it hadn’t happened. It is also the...
Tirana Examiner Newsroom Albania’s Special Court against Corruption and Organised Crime (GJKKO) on Tuesday ordered house arrest and suspension from duty for Vlora Hyseni, director of the State Intelligence...
Rama opened his UN week in Troy with an announcement. The people it was addressed to had put it on paper nine days earlier. By Klea Ukaj , US Bureau · Troy, Michigan Edi Rama met Albanian-Americans at...
Mero Baze Until now, the entire debate over the failure of the Justice Reform has focused on its institutional architecture: SPAK’s blackmailing hold over the courts, a bad judicial map that has multiplied...
Three Americans spoke for Washington in the Balkans this week. Only one carried the authority of the United States, and the region barely noticed. by Ardit Rada (Tirana) Washington spent thirty years teaching...
The Newsroom (Tirana) Parliament adopted in the early hours of Friday the Socialist Party’s amendments to Law 96/2016 on the status of judges and prosecutors, setting a new formula for magistrates’ pay....
The Hague sentenced four commanders for what was done to prisoners. It refused to find that the KLA made war on a people. by Ngadhnjim Brovina (Regional Affairs Desk) Aleksandar Vučić waited until 18:30...
The Newsroom (Clinton Township, MI) The State Department’s written testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe gives Albania a paragraph of its own and four concrete interests: dismantling...
The bill goes to a plenary vote on Thursday after the High Court, the prosecutorial council and the judges’ representatives told the committee that a 0.38 coefficient falls short of the Constitutional...
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The High Court kept Erion Veliaj in custody on Tuesday. The Constitutional Court never said it could not. It said the court had to explain why, and that explanation is now the only document that matters....
Protest regular Edmond Jatagani arrested after reporting a terrorist threat at the Emin Duraku school; a Shqiponja officer suspended for striking a detained marcher; 20 participants in Sunday night’s road...
The organisation Christopher Hill advises has revived the organ-trafficking allegation by explaining its absence from the indictment through concealment. The investigation it invokes said Albania gave...
When the judiciary sets its own pay, enforces it through its own courts and looks to Brussels for cover, independence has crossed into power. Renada Bici (Legal Desk) On 11 September the Tirana Administrative...
The Newsroom The Tirana Administrative Court of First Instance on 11 September ordered the Ministry of Finance and the Tirana Treasury branch to resume processing payment orders and payrolls submitted...
Prime Minister Edi Rama used a joint edition of his podcast, Flasim, and Rudina Xhunga’s programme on Dritare Television, recorded as a single four-hour interview, to address the widest range of questions...
The Newsroom The Council of Ministers approved three financing agreements with Germany, gave further details of a housing plan covering 7,000 households and extended the government’s “Prania Besnike” public-reception...
The Newsroom Prime Minister Edi Rama announced Besfort Lamallari’s removal as Minister of the Interior on Friday and named Ervin Demo to take over the portfolio, with Demo’s local-government responsibilities...
Albatros Rexhaj When I asked Edi Rama why Klodiana Spahiu, the answer came in three words: humble, professional, loyal. The more I think about that answer, the less those three qualities look accidental....
Serbia’s ruling party set out its position on Mladić the day after he died. Ten days later the president of France received the man at the centre of its system. Drizan Shala (Security Desk) On 28 August,...
The Constitution did not create a power above the powers. A decade of guardianship around the justice reform helped produce one, and on Thursday 271 judges invited its foreign guardians to enforce the...
The Constitutional Court gave parliament a duty and the magistrates a fallback. The Judicial Council took a power the judgment gave to no one, and its supporters asked a prosecutor to punish the officials...
