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A convenient narrative in Tirana reduces continuity to opposition weakness. The record suggests a more complex reality: voter choice, perceived performance, and the absence of a credible alternative. Albatros...
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In a joint appearance with the EU Ambassador, the Prime Minister described food safety as the hardest ch apter of accession and confirmed that Tirana is negotiating a possible post-membership extension,...
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On what the Albanian State Police did in front of the Prime Ministry, and what the opposition did afterward. By Renada Bici | Legal Desk Two operations, forty-eight hours apart, in two European capitals....
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At home, SPAK is framed as captured. Abroad, Albania is framed as lawless. The argument cannot hold both. Maringlen Cara (Tirana) On April 20, a week before Ilir Meta’s first substantive hearing, Tedi...
The EU Delegation’s April 15 Discrepancy Editorial Board , Tirana Examiner On April 15, the Ambassador of the European Union to Albania, Silvio Gonzato, hosted a meeting at the EU Delegation in Tirana...
The Albanian prime minister says other European states have shown interest in the migrant center model, but insists the agreement remains a one-off concession to Italy Anna La Rosa (il Giornale) Republished...
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Registration, due process, and SPAK’s constitutional bargain By the Tirana Examiner Legal Desk Albanian criminal procedure turns on a single procedural act. The moment a prosecutor enters a person’s name...
The Newsroom (Tirana) Ervin Salianji, the former Democratic Party MP who intends to run for the party’s chairmanship, used a meeting with local members in Kukës on Sunday to deliver his sharpest public...
Responding to Vučić’s remarks, Albania’s Foreign Minister Ferit Hoxha told Top Channel journalist Muhamed Veliu that “Albania will not become part of rhetoric that fuels tensions, but will continue to...
Prime Minister Edi Rama used the fifteenth episode of the sixth season of his weekly podcast, Flasim, to address several policy and governance matters: his two-stop visit to Rome and Barcelona, the retrospective...
Kyiv described Moscow’s foundational claim. Belgrade runs the same one toward Pristina. Albatros Rexhaj At the Four Freedoms Awards ceremony, Volodymyr Zelensky described what he called the core of Russia’s...
The convergence of historical revisionism, Serbian–Israeli arms ties, and diplomatic positioning is testing the credibility of genocide recognition in international politics. Ngadhnjim Brovina (Prishtina)...
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Brussels signals strong progress for Tirana while the Cluster 1 decision moves to Member States, as the Commission’s written response to A2CNN sets out the first public shape of Albania’s 51 transitional...
The Editorial Board |Tirana There is a simple rule in serious politics. When a political leader’s supporters commit violence at events he has personally called and personally chaired, he is responsible....
Skënder Hita’s first test as State Police chief produces the first protest in the recent sequence to be stopped before wider escalation. Five officers hospitalised. Berisha responds with unsupported claims;...
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She speaks now. She did not speak then. That difference is the whole argument. Ardit Rada (Tirana) On April 17, Elisa Spiropali, only days after being removed as Albania’s Foreign Minister, published a...
The summoning of Edi Rama as a witness does not change the “Partizani” case; it tests whether the court will remain anchored in the evidence or drift into a political confrontation staged for the public...
Aurel Cara (Tirana) Prime Minister Edi Rama arrived at Palazzo Chigi on Thursday afternoon for what the Italian government, in a carefully worded readout, described as a chance to “take stock of the strengthening...
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the Newsroom (Tirana) The Parliament convened Thursday for a session scheduled to hold three cabinet members to account. It held none of them. By the time Speaker Niko Peleshi gaveled the chamber into...
Albania is targeting the financial core of organized crime — the region remains inconsistent by Marinela Pole (Tirana) The operation announced today by the Special Anti-Corruption and Organised Crime Prosecutor’s...
The former deputy’s decision to speak on record marks a new phase in a feud that is now drawing internal Democratic Party dissent into the open. by the Newsroom (Tirana) A former senior figure in the Democratic...
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When Paris does it, it is read as constitutional. When Tirana does it, it is read as backsliding. By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) On April 14, French investigators arrived at the Élysée Palace as part of a...
TIRANA EXAMINER Editorial Board A claim circulates with some persistence in discussions of Albanian media: that the country’s major television stations have been captured by the governing Socialist Party...
Albatros Rexhaj When Viktor Orbán conceded defeat on April 12, something more than a government changed in Budapest. A political system built over sixteen years to make alternation structurally improbable...
The Newsroom (Tirana) Albanians from 38 countries gathered in Tirana on Tuesday for the Fourth Diaspora Summit, the most ambitious convening of its kind to date. The panels produced a picture more complicated...
Prime Minister invokes Ismail Qemali, cites EU accession record, and calls on diaspora to invest in mountain property the Newsroom (Tirana) The fourth edition of the Albanian Diaspora Summit opened its...
Twenty-five years after systematic sexual violence during the Kosovo war, the absence of justice reflects a sustained political arrangement, not a failure of evidence. Klea Ukaj (Michigan, USA) When Kosovo’s...
By Ardit Rada | Tirana Examiner Staff Writer A report published by Balkan Insight on April 8 carries a serious charge: that Albanian public institutions are deliberately obstructing journalists’ Freedom...
Tirana Examiner Newsroom The results from Hungary arrived with unusual clarity. Péter Magyar’s Tisza party won a landslide two-thirds supermajority, ending sixteen years of Viktor Orbán’s rule and, in...
Tirana Examiner Newsroom Prime Minister Edi Rama used a visit to Vlorë on Monday to deliver a blunt warning to the tourism sector, offer the most detailed public update yet on the contested Sazan Island...
