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In a joint appearance with the EU Ambassador, the Prime Minister described food safety as the hardest chapter of accession and confirmed that Tirana is negotiating a possible post-membership extension, with five years raised as the working figure. The Newsroom The room in Tirana on Tuesday was not staged for reassurance. Prime Minister Edi …
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The Albanian prime minister says other European states have shown interest in the migrant center model, but insists the agreement remains a one-off concession to Italy Anna La Rosa (il Giornale) Republished and translated by Tirana Examiner Entering Edi Rama’s office feels like a scene change. After undergoing extremely strict security checks—leaving behind your …
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The Newsroom (Tirana) Ervin Salianji, the former Democratic Party MP who intends to run for the party’s chairmanship, used a meeting with local members in Kukës on Sunday to deliver his sharpest public challenge yet to the man who has led Albania’s main opposition force for most of its existence. Speaking ahead of internal …
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Responding to Vučić’s remarks, Albania’s Foreign Minister Ferit Hoxha told Top Channel journalist Muhamed Veliu that “Albania will not become part of rhetoric that fuels tensions, but will continue to act as a factor of stability, with prudence and in full coordination with its allies.” The Newsroom Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, following a meeting …
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Prime Minister Edi Rama used the fifteenth episode of the sixth season of his weekly podcast, Flasim, to address several policy and governance matters: his two-stop visit to Rome and Barcelona, the retrospective on the fourth diaspora summit and Albania’s economic transformation, a building fire in Tirana and the government’s response to affected residents, and …
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Brussels signals strong progress for Tirana while the Cluster 1 decision moves to Member States, as the Commission’s written response to A2CNN sets out the first public shape of Albania’s 51 transitional requests. Newsroom Analysis | Tirana European Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos told BBC News that Albania, Montenegro and Moldova are the three candidate …
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Skënder Hita’s first test as State Police chief produces the first protest in the recent sequence to be stopped before wider escalation. Five officers hospitalised. Berisha responds with unsupported claims; the Interior Minister responds from the ward. The Newsroom | Tirana The Democratic Party’s seventh national protest in three months ended on Friday evening …
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Aurel Cara (Tirana) Prime Minister Edi Rama arrived at Palazzo Chigi on Thursday afternoon for what the Italian government, in a carefully worded readout, described as a chance to “take stock of the strengthening of the partnership between the two countries in sectors of common interest, with particular focus on interconnection, the defence industry, …
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the Newsroom (Tirana) The Parliament convened Thursday for a session scheduled to hold three cabinet members to account. It held none of them. By the time Speaker Niko Peleshi gaveled the chamber into its late-afternoon ratification block, Defence Minister Ermal Nufi was stranded by a Lufthansa strike returning from Zagreb, Culture Minister Mirela Kumbaro …
