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by Aurel Cara (Tirana) In an interview published Wednesday by Politico, EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos sat down to discuss the state of the bloc’s expansion agenda. The conversation turned, as it increasingly does when Albania comes up in Brussels, to the question of justice. A reporter asked her directly: how is Prime Minister …
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the Newsroom (Tirana) he Democratic Party has removed two members of its municipal council group in Durrës, the first concrete disciplinary action against figures associated with Ervin Salianji’s internal challenge to Sali Berisha’s leadership. Party Secretary General Flamur Noka signed a decision dated March 23 expelling Dritan Burgija, who served as group leader on …
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by Marinela Pole (Tirana) Albania’s Ombudsman monitored Sunday’s opposition protest across its full itinerary, visiting hospitals and police stations, receiving a complaint of police violence from a detained protester, and calling on security forces to exercise restraint and transparency over the protocols governing tear gas deployment. The institution said at least 12 adults were …
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The German Embassy asked for an unequivocal break with violence. What it received was a conditional doctrine. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) The German Embassy in Tirana was unambiguous on Monday morning. “The German Embassy condemns the unacceptable violence in the context of yesterday’s demonstrations,” the statement read. “Political protests and the right to demonstrate …
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the Newsroom (Tirana) Ervin Salianji, a Democratic Party member who has confirmed he will challenge Sali Berisha for the party chairmanship in May, used Saturday’s opposition protest in Tirana to deliver his sharpest broadside yet against the party hierarchy — arguing that the demonstration accomplished nothing beyond a boulevard stroll and in effect propped …
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The outlet’s March 22 coverage was not journalism. It was a production. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) There is a version of March 22 in which the State Police, acting on direct orders from Edi Rama, attacked peaceful citizens exercising their democratic right to protest. In this version, Sali Berisha is a leader who suffered …
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the Newsroom (Tirana) A Democratic Party protest in Tirana on Monday night drew attention less for its size than for a conspicuous symbolic shift: American flags, a fixture at recent opposition rallies, were absent. German ones flew in their place. For legal analyst Kreshnik Spahiu, speaking live on Report TV following the demonstration, the …
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The Newsroom (Tirana) Democratic Party militants hurled Molotov cocktails at seven locations across central Tirana on Sunday evening, injured five police officers, and came within metres of the Italian Embassy and the national public broadcaster in a two-hour march that substituted organised violence for political argument. It was the third major PD protest in …
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A record shop in Cannes says something about where the country thinks it is going by the Editors (Tirana) The Albanian Riviera has long attracted visitors who preferred to keep it to themselves. Unspoiled precisely because it lacked the infrastructure that spoils places, the coastline running south from Vlorë toward the Greek border was, …
