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The Examiner
Albatros Rexhaj Last night on Sokol Balla’s Real Story I said the Socialist Party is in the middle of a civil war. Today Elisa Spiropali put her name to it. I am grateful. For a year this war was fought under pseudonyms, through portals, through “sources close to”, through former officials speaking on behalf …
EU Integrations
The Delegation asked the Albanian state for investigation, transparency and accountability at 12:55 on Wednesday. Two days later it has not applied one of them to itself. by Ardit Rada (Tirana) On Tuesday night Tirana burned. By 12:55 on Wednesday the EU Delegation had its text ready: it deplored the violence, asked for a …
The Examiner
On day three the police held one boulevard and lost the city. The targets, the formation behind the masks, the photograph the EU Delegation gave the party posing with them, and the lie aimed at the police. By Drizan Shala (Security Desk) A protest has a grievance and a place to put it. By …
The Examiner
Serbia buries Mladić with honours and keeps every chair. Tirana burns and gets seven sentences for the police. The Europe Edi Rama invested twelve years in no longer exists, and the one that does will do to him what it did to Thaçi. A note to the Prime Minister from someone who defended his bet. …
The Examiner
On Wednesday the Union told the Albanian police to hold back, received the opposition’s account in its own office, and said nothing to the men with the petrol. A security assessment of what a crowd does with three signals that point the same way. By Drizan Shala (Security Desk) Every crowd that intends violence …
The Examiner
On the afternoon Tirana burned, the EU ambassador received the opposition’s interlocutor in the Union’s own office and published nothing. The opposition published the photograph and the readout. Either Brussels chose that, or Brussels has lost control of its mission. There is no third answer. Ardit Rada The European Union’s ambassador in Tirana held …
Daily Briefing
Editorial Board “Yesterday they backed the protest, today the EU Delegation asks the students for restraint: We strongly condemn the escalation of violence and the destruction of property” (“Dje mbështetën protestën, sot Delegacioni i BE kërkon vetëpërmbajtje nga studentët: Dënojmë me forcë përshkallëzimin e dhunës dhe shkatërrimin e pronës”). That is Newsbomb’s headline this …
Daily Briefing
The Iute Credit branch on Rruga e Durrësit burned on Tuesday and again on Wednesday, a fifteen-minute walk from the EU Delegation. The Delegation found seven sentences for the police and none for the fire. Since May a rumour has said the Union’s missions would behave exactly like this. On Wednesday they did. Maringlen Cara …
Daily Briefing
The Newsroom Article 47 of the Albanian Constitution guarantees the freedom of peaceful assembly, without arms. Article 11 of the European Convention protects the same thing, in the same words: peaceful. What follows is a list of acts recorded in Tirana on 13 and 14 October 2026 by the State Police and by the …
Hard Talks
This interview was originally published in German by WELT AM SONNTAG and conducted by Philip Volkmann-Schluck, senior foreign editor at WELT. Tirana Examiner has translated the published German text into English and preserved the sequence and substance of the questions and answers. Because the source published by WELT is in German, the English quotations above …
Hard Talks
The euro has slipped below the number this magazine pressed the Economy Minister on a month ago. As the currency chart becomes the loudest exhibit in Albania’s dirty money argument, we turn the Hard Talks chair on our own economist and ask whether his arithmetic survives 92.4. by Besart Ruka (Tirana) Introduction The screenshot arrived on …
Hard Talks
Recorded in Tirana. Broadcast on Euronews Serbia, 14 July 2026. Editor’s note: This interview was recorded in Tirana days after the NATO summit in Ankara (7 and 8 July 2026) and broadcast on Euronews Serbia’s programme Direktno sa Minjom Miletić. The conversation was conducted in English and aired in Serbian translation; the transcript below is …
Regional
Serbia is free to sit close to Moscow. The question this week is why Brussels and Washington keep holding the other chair out for it, on the same terms, after everything they have watched. by Ngadhnjim Brovina (Regional Affairs Desk) On Saturday 26 September Aleksandar Vučić telephoned Vladimir Putin about the Gazprom supply annex …
Regional
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 Bosnia and the status of Kosovo. Albania borders three of the four. by Ngadhnjim Brovina (Regional Affairs Desk) Albania’s diplomatic list carries …
Regional
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 to say it, and then he said it plainly. The chamber in The Hague did not find, beyond reasonable doubt, …
