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Prime Minister Edi Rama delivered the following address as guest of honour at the annual conference of the Ost-Ausschuss der Deutschen Wirtschaft, the German economy’s committee for relations with the...
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Kosovo’s struggle centered on recognition. Montenegro’s centers on definition. Ngadhnjim Brovina On 12 May, the assembly of a municipality on the edge of Podgorica voted to annul the Republic of Kosovo....
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Asked to call the Nartë project an accession problem, the Enlargement Commissioner declined. Read against the Commission’s own statement a week earlier, her refusal is the news. by Ardit Rada (Tirana)...
On the protest’s fifteenth night, the march reached the road to the airport. What happened there was a question of conduct, and two answers met on the same asphalt. By Aurel Cara (Tirana) Edi Rama called...
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By Edi Rama Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania SAZAN ISLAND is state property, which has never been intended, nor even sought, for sale. This state land would be made available, so as to turn it...
In one week, on one tour, a Greek foreign minister used the same phrase to bless Belgrade, pressure Tirana, and deny Pristina. The phrase was “international law.” The standard applied beneath it was not...
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Albania has made the disclosure of secret investigative acts, by those entrusted to hold them, a felony under its own Criminal Code. The recurrence of such disclosures, across cases and across the press,...
Prime Minister Edi Rama used the twenty-third episode of the sixth season of his weekly podcast, Flasim, to address several policy and governance matters: a prefatory reflection on what he described as...
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One question in the Zvërnec file can be answered now, without waiting for any verdict and without presuming any guilt: what the state was lawfully able to do about the transfer of the land. The answer...
Albania is preparing to repeal and replace its Law on Strategic Investments, a step Brussels has asked for over four years of progress reports. As a matter of law, the new statute will speak to the future....
Twelve days of protest in Tirana have asked every question except the one that decides everything. Tirana Examiner Begin with what the protest has earned, because it has earned a great deal. For twelve...
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by Mark Gojcaj | Tirana Examiner, US – International On Thursday morning, Sali Berisha walked into the Albanian parliament and delivered four words from the rostrum: “I came, it is done.” Democratic Party...
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A leaderless movement built itself around an empty phrase. The Prime Minister has begun filling it. by Alban Bici (publisher of Tirana Examiner) The most important words in Tirana this June are also the...
By Klea Ukaj | Tirana Examiner, Washington Desk On Monday, Senator Bernie Sanders informed his nine million followers that “over a hundred thousand people” were in the streets of “tiny Albania” protesting...
Iran’s foreign ministry answered Tirana with a produced video and a festival song from 1980. Read closely, the reply is not diplomacy. It is the operation already documented on Albanian networks, surfacing...
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The EU Ambassador may speak for the acquis. He may not settle the facts of a live Albanian dispute. Partnership requires Brussels to address Tirana, not pronounce over it. by Ardit Rada (Tirana) On 24...
Brussels cannot pronounce a verdict on a project that does not yet exist, and it has no standing to ask Albania to choose between Europe and its own coast. by Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) “Albania should refrain...
The footage was authentic. The captions were written elsewhere. Inside a week a domestic grievance was re-labelled into a hostile information operation, led from Tehran and amplified by every actor that...
by Givi Targamadze Nineteen years ago, the Russian FSB — operating through a Russian oligarch of Georgian origin who had taken cover in the guise of political opposition — was waging a well-organized,...
Prime Minister Edi Rama used the twenty-second episode of the sixth season of his weekly podcast, Flasim, to address several policy and governance matters: Albania’s unanimous election to lead Forest Europe...
By Ardit Rada (Tirana) “It is no accident that the Zvërnec issue has drawn attention even at the highest levels of the European Union. This shows that the problem is not simply an isolated project, but...
The disinformation flooding Albanian feeds is not an argument about a resort. It is the ground a hostile state prepares before someone moves, and a former Secret Service agent has read this file before....
Tirana Examiner Security Affairs Desk A message thread circulating in a University of Tirana law faculty student group, “Njoftime FDUT,” contained step by step instructions for building an improvised incendiary...
On 3 June, CNN’s Isa Soares devoted a segment to the protests in Tirana against a proposed luxury development on Albania’s southern coast, the Zvërnec island project in the Narta lagoon near Vlorë, linked...
A foreign libel was fitted to Sazan at the moment Albania could least afford it. That timing was the design. Drizan Shala The lagoon at Narta was protected before any American thought the coast was worth...
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Tirana Examiner Sali Berisha’s full endorsement of the Kushner-linked coastal investment removes the last partisan obstacle to a development model neither major party will now contest. The fight has not...
The Newsroom Albania’s Special Prosecution Against Corruption and Organised Crime has placed under preventive seizure the 195 million dollars paid out for land at Zvërnec, holding the sums in the accounts...
A preventive sequestration order against Albania Land Development, the company holding the coastal land for the resort tied to Jared Kushner and his Qatari partners, was placed on 29 May and lifted by...
by Christopher S. Hyland Every nation arrives, at intervals, at a threshold where it must choose between two definitions of itself – one open and one closed, one confident and one fearful – and Albania,...
by Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) Belind Këlliçi went on A Show on Syri TV and did something specific. He placed the Zvërnec affair at the door of the Prime Minister, charged the government with favouring private...
