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Daily Briefing
When violence came from the opposition, Tirana’s diplomats spoke within a day. When an anti-government crowd turned on a journalist for the opinions he expressed, the public statements stopped. By Albatros Rexhaj On Monday Bledi Mane was surrounded in central Tirana, called “Rama’s servant” [servil i Ramës] and hit with eggs and, by his …
The Examiner
A range watched for two years and photographed from the hill above it. A NATO air base in Albania mapped sortie by sortie. A freighter photographed through the fence at Pristina. The collection is published and persistent, and neither Albania nor Kosovo has visibly disrupted it. Drizan Shala, Security Desk For more than two …
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 …
The Examiner
A Serbian-facing collector is watching Albania’s army. The purchase meant to shut that window sits in a criminal file that leaked on its first day. SPAK has every right to investigate; Albania’s allies have every reason to ask whether the country is investigating itself into permanent exposure. Drizan Shala, Security Desk On 2 October …
The Examiner
What Albanian law says about the file SPAK has opened: what counts as evidence, how the state buys military equipment, who may open a classified page, and who answers if one reaches a portal. Renada Bici (Legal Desk) A prosecutor’s file now sits between the Ministry of Defence and the public. On Friday, according …
The Examiner
This desk asked for evidence in place of verbs. On Friday a prosecutor went to fetch it. What SPAK must look for, who answers for what, and the one way the investigation could finish what the tape began. Drizan Shala, Security Desk At midday on Friday, Albanian media reported, agents of the National Bureau …
Daily Briefing
A message to SPAK, and to every embassy in Tirana reading what has already escaped from a defence investigation. Tirana Examiner Editorial Board On Friday the Special Prosecution, SPAK, searched Albania’s Ministry of Defence and took documents. It has issued no statement. By Saturday, News24 was reporting the offences said to be registered, details …
Daily Briefing
Prime Minister Edi Rama spoke to the country from Tirana’s Mother Teresa airport on Sunday afternoon, minutes after landing from New York, where he had represented Albania at the UN General Assembly. The address followed the house arrest of Vlora Hyseni, the dismissed director of the State Intelligence Service (SHISH), whom SPAK is investigating for …
Daily Briefing
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 manipulation, and sided with the US president against restraint. NEW YORK / TIRANA – The Newsroom Prime Minister Edi Rama addressed the general debate of the …
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 …
Hard Talks
The Economy Minister argues that Albania’s growth rests on tourism, investment and reform, not criminal capital. As the “narco-state” narrative spreads through European politics and media, we ask Delina Ibrahimaj whether the government’s numbers are finally strong enough—and transparent enough—to settle the argument. by Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) Introduction There is a number in Albania …
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, …
