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by Renada Bici (The Legal Desk) On Monday, SPAK told BIRN that it had opened an investigation connected to the works at Zvërnec. In the same answer, through its coordinator for the right to information,...
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A protester dragged across a cordoned beach forced the prime minister into his first full account of the Vlora resort. He gave it at length, and on his own terms. Edi Rama spoke about Zvërnec for the first...
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A follow-up to our reporting on Saturday’s clash. A belief has settled into the public conversation that the government gave away public land for this resort. It did not. The parcels were private, and...
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A demonstrator was beaten and dragged across a fence line by masked men on Saturday. Before the day was out a police chief had been suspended, a guard arrested, and an official account withdrawn. The test...
Prime Minister Edi Rama used the twenty-first episode of the sixth season of his weekly podcast, Flasim, to address several policy and governance matters: the historical significance of the May 26 Brussels...
Daniel Serwer delivered these remarks in Tirana on 28 May 2026, at an event organized by the Albanian Institute for International Studies, where Albert Rakipi posed the question that gives the talk its...
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A response to Carlo Bollino on SPAK, procedure, and the missing variable Albatros Rexhaj Carlo Bollino’s recent column reaches for Guantanamo to describe what is happening inside Albanian justice . The...
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Albania closes the opening phase. The 8th Intergovernmental Conference confirms fulfilment of the Cluster 1 interim benchmarks and sets the closing benchmarks for Chapters 23 and 24. Berlin and The Hague...
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The same week Washington reaffirmed Dayton and signed into law sanctions on actors who threaten Bosnia’s territorial integrity, the host of the Banja Luka summit publicly aligned Flynn’s project with Putin’s...
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How a Saturday vote with one name on the ballot exposed the architecture of the party Sali Berisha now owns outright, and the limits of the challenge mounted against him Legal Desk The Tirana Examiner...
The Serbian Progressive Party’s written embrace of the Chinese Communist Party has placed before the European People’s Party a question its foundational identity was constructed to exclude. by Ngadhnjim...
Property Administration Is Being Unified Into an Agency Whose 2025 Ombudsman File Is on the Record Tirana Examiner Legal Desk On the same day the Council of the European Union convenes the 8th Intergovernmental...
The Tirana Examiner Legal Desk The 25 May decision of the Constitutional Court, taken by a five-to-three majority of the eight sitting judges, is the most consequential ruling on pretrial detention of an elected official in the...
The Newsroom Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias was received in Tirana on Monday by Albanian Defense Minister Ermal Nufi and Prime Minister Edi Rama, in a visit that Greek media framed in advance as...
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The opposition has built its post-IBAR communication on a category error. The error has political utility. It does not survive contact with the document. by Ardit Rada (Tirana) The Interim European Union...
Germany has replaced the veto with a methodology in which Albania’s progress is acknowledged, praised, and indefinitely postponed, applying the harshest conditionality in the Western Balkans to the region’s...
The Newsroom Prime Minister Edi Rama on Sunday confirmed Albania will formally enter the closing phase of European Union accession negotiations at the Eighth Intergovernmental Conference in Brussels on...
Prime Minister Edi Rama used the twentieth episode of the sixth season of his weekly podcast, Flasim, to address several policy and governance matters: visits to South Korea and Japan and the growth of...
by Aurel Cara (Tirana) The body that ruled on who could challenge Sali Berisha for the chairmanship of the Democratic Party is a body whose composition is determined by Sali Berisha. This is not a procedural...
A communiqué from the OSCE Presence has reopened a constitutional question Albania has avoided for three decades: when international procedural frameworks begin shaping the internal conduct of elected...
The Newsroom Prime Minister Edi Rama closed a four-day Asian tour in Tokyo on Friday with a state-style reception at Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s office. Takaichi pledged continued Japanese backing...
The Newsroom The Albanian Assembly adopted amendments to its Rules of Procedure on Thursday by 100 votes in favour and a single vote against, closing a procedural dispute that had run since the autumn...
The Newsroom The Council Working Party on Enlargement (COELA) agreed Thursday on the draft EU Common Position based on Albania’s Interim Benchmark Assessment Reports (IBARs), clearing the file without...
What began as a defense spending increase has evolved into a broader strategic transformation repositioning Albania from a peripheral NATO contributor into a southern-flank operational and production hub...
the Newsroom Some state visits matter for what is signed. Others matter for what is said, and where, and to whom. The Prime Minister of Albania’s five-day visit to the Republic of Korea, scheduled from...
A judge has ordered pretrial detention for Commissioner Bashllari and one inspector, house arrest for two others, in the CopaCabana file. The structure has been demolished. The Interior Minister and State...
Gogu signals the criminal amnesty, which would affect roughly 12,000 people, will move once the European Commission delivers its Fundamentals assessment. The minister defends judges over the live-broadcast...
Albania’s justice reform, measured at last by the citizens it was built for by Aurel Cara (Tirana) For the first time since the vetting began, the Albanian public has been asked what it makes of the justice...
Berisha did not file a complaint. He pronounced a verdict. A reform survives only if the politicians who voted it continue to honor it after the institution reaches their own door. by Ardit Bido (Tirana)...
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Prime Minister Edi Rama used the nineteenth episode of the sixth season of his weekly podcast, Flasim, to address several policy and governance matters: visits to Germany and Estonia connected to Albania’s...