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Tirana Examiner Look at the placard first, because everything else follows from it. A man holds it above the crowd in Tirana. On it, the Prime Minister of Albania has been redrawn as a Haredi Jew: black hat, beard, sidelocks. A red sniper’s reticle sits on his face, centred between the eyes. Beside him a …
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Tirana Examiner On 1 June, hundreds of people marched in Tirana against the resort project at Zvërnec. They were protesting the violence of 30 May when private guards dragged a protester across the ground while police watched. Then, in front of the Prime Minister’s Office, some in the crowd chanted “Poshtë Izraeli.” Down with …
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Parliament spent the first of June arguing about Zvërnec as if the line ran between government and opposition. It did not. The plenary convened around a single coastal project and left three incompatible arguments lying on the floor. None of them belonged cleanly to a party. That is the fact the headlines will bury …
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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 time on Monday, and he did not speak briefly. Across more than an hour before the …
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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 Before the day was out a police chief had been suspended, a guard arrested, and an official account withdrawn.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 of an institution is not whether abuse occurs on its watch, but how fast it names the abuse and …
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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 intergovernmental conference opening the final phase of EU accession negotiations, the accession timeline with chapter closure by end of 2027 and membership by …
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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 condition what comes next. The Eighth Intergovernmental Conference between Albania and the European Union concluded in Brussels on Tuesday with three operative outcomes. The …
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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 bulletin that members of the Democratic Party of Albania marked on 23 May in 87 voting centres across …
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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 Conference Albania-EU in Brussels to confirm that Albania has fulfilled the interim benchmarks of Cluster 1 and to set closing …
