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by Hajdi Xhixha (Tirana) Read the document before reading the reaction. The US Embassy in Tirana issued a Security Alert on April 1. Its operative sentence: “Groups associated with Iran may seek to target entities associated with the U.S. or Iranian opposition elements in Albania.” May seek. Not will. Not has planned. Not is …
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Bamir Topi’s diagnosis of Albanian politics is damning. The problem is that he helped build what he is describing. Tirana Examiner The insider who names the machinery he once operated carries a different kind of authority than the scholar who studies it from a distance. It is quieter, and more unsettling. Bamir Topi, Albania’s …
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A geographic coincidence is not a chain of authority. But it is enough to build a political claim. by Aurel Cara (Tirana) When Besfort Lamallari presented Skënder Hita’s appointment as Director General of the State Police to parliament, he offered two verifiable claims: that Hita is a career officer, and that the selection process …
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A fast-moving negotiation meets a slow-moving Union — Albania’s progress now hinges less on preparation than on political permission. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) Albania’s government convened an open-format review of EU accession negotiations on Monday, presenting what chief negotiator Majlinda Dhuka described as a technically mature and politically supported process moving toward a concrete …
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The Newsroom (Tirana) Fifty percent. That is the share of new car sales in Albania that were fully electric in 2025, according to Argjent Goci, founder and CEO of Electric Cars Albania, speaking on Prime Minister Edi Rama’s podcast Flasim this week. The figure has not been independently verified against official statistics from Albania’s …
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Prime Minister Edi Rama used the twelfth episode of the sixth season of his weekly podcast, Flasim, to address a range of policy and governance matters: the Transparency Board’s ongoing oversight of fuel prices in the context of the war’s impact on global energy markets, Albania’s economic growth figures for the fourth quarter of 2025, …
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Albania’s territorial reform process moved forward on Saturday. How far forward is a different question. the Newsroom (Tirana) Saturday’s closed-door gathering of the Socialist Party parliamentary group at the Pallati i Brigadave was billed as an internal coordination session. What emerged from it was something more consequential: the clearest picture yet of how the …
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When Le Point, one of France’s most widely read political weeklies, publishes a long interview with an Albanian prime minister conducted in French and illustrated with his Paris years, the register tells you something before the first question is asked. Edi Rama is being received not as a regional interlocutor but as a European statesman, …
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by the Newsroom (Tirana) The National Association of Judges and the Association of Prosecutors of the Republic of Albania have issued a joint statement regarding the proposed constitutional amendments to the justice system in Italy. The associations emphasize that they commend the National Association of Magistrates of the Italian Republic, which, according to them, …
