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The Examiner
Edi Rama went to Berlin and made a serious, sincere offer. Albania has done the work, and it means the choice. The trouble was the table he made it to. Berlin treats membership as a favour it can defer without end, and a leader as capable as Rama should stop mistaking what Berlin is willing …
Daily Briefing
DPA Updated Wed, June 17, 2026 Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said protests against a planned luxury resort on the country’s Adriatic coast were based on misinformation, rejecting claims that protected land was being sold to investors linked to the family of US President Donald Trump. “The facts say that there is no deal …
Daily Briefing
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 East, in Berlin on 16 June 2026. His assigned subject was “Albania’s European Future: Reform, Resilience and Innovation in a Changing Geopolitical Landscape.” The Tirana …
The Examiner
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) Marta Kos was handed an easy invitation to escalate, and she turned it down. Asked at the Commission’s briefing this week whether the …
The Examiner
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 into a top-tier tourist destination, through the state’s participation in the investment itself. On the basis of …
The Examiner
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 the same. Ngadhnjim Brovina George Gerapetritis arrived in Belgrade on 12 June with a refrain. Greek foreign policy, he said …
Daily Briefing
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 it a mob steered by evil minds and bad hands, a crowd that no longer had anything to …
Daily Briefing
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 troubling symptoms accompanying the ongoing protests against the Zvërnec coastal development project, including tourism booking cancellations, online bullying of dissenting voices, and what …
Daily Briefing
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 for 2026 to 2030, Lake Shkodra’s inclusion in the UNESCO biosphere network, his visit to residents of the Zvërnec area amid the coastal development …
Hard Talks
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 to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. She then put the matter to Prime Minister Edi Rama directly. Over several minutes, Rama …
Hard Talks
Interview with Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Ferit Hoxha, on the program “World News” on Klan television 24 April 2026 Linda Karadaku: The main issue under discussion with Greece is the delimitation of the maritime border. Prime Minister Rama said the matter is in Strasbourg. Is there any movement, or has it simply …
Hard Talks
He built a publication in a language he does not fully speak, to cover a country the world largely ignores, with a team of volunteers working from laptops and smartphones. The idea came to him not in a Tirana office but in a hotel room in a distant country, reading a foreign magazine, thinking about …
US - International
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. The municipality was Zeta. The vote was advanced by Milan Knežević’s Democratic People’s Party and carried by the eighteen councilors of the “For …
US - International
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 deputies applauded. Outside the chamber, he told journalists that official communication had confirmed the lifting of his American travel ban. Asked …
US - International
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 an “environmentally disastrous luxury resort” built by Jared Kushner and his Qatari partners. This, he declared, “is what global oligarchy looks like.” …
