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The Newsroom Albania signed a twenty-year liquefied natural gas agreement on Wednesday in Tirana, valued at six billion dollars across the term, structured around three counterparties: ALBGAZ on the Albanian state side, the Virginia-based producer Venture Global on the upstream supply side, and Aktor LNG USA, the trading vehicle of Greece’s Aktor Group, on …
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27 April 2026 hearing, Council of High Prosecution Klodian Braho, who took over SPAK from Altin Dumani on 11 December 2025, presented his first annual report to the Council of High Prosecution on Monday, 27 April 2026. The hearing, held under Article 105 of Law 97/2016, ran approximately one hour. Braho was accompanied by BKH …
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Judge Engjëllushe Tahiri denied requests to broadcast the trial live, to digitise the investigative file, and to remove the mayor from the glass enclosure. SPAK prosecutor Altin Dumani told the court the defence had spent two months on artificial filings; attorney Plarent Ndreca said the only person in custody was his client, who had every …
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Prime Minister Edi Rama used the sixteenth episode of the sixth season of his weekly podcast, Flasim, to address several policy and governance matters: a solidarity visit to Abu Dhabi following attacks on the UAE linked to the Iranian regime, a bilateral meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Athens, the growing uptake of …
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The moment Berisha speaks without filter is the moment his own apparatus intervenes. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) “I emphasized this moment, because if we, in a peaceful armed insurrection, do not show this regime its place, do not bring it down, then not only the port, but Albania itself will be in the greatest …
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Tirana Examiner Briefing The Special Parliamentary Commission for Administrative-Territorial Reform took its consultation circuit to Gjirokastër on 24 April. Co-chairs Arbjan Mazniku (PS) and Luçiano Boçi (PD) led the session. The Greek minority’s senior parliamentary voice, Vangjel Dule, head of the Unity for Human Rights Party (PBDNJ) and a Gjirokastër native, used the home …
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The Newsroom The plenary that convened in Tirana on Thursday ran for the better part of a day before it produced its defining image: a Democratic Party deputy gripping the rostrum past the point of return, a parliamentary speaker counting out disciplinary measures, and an opposition walking out of the chamber as two substantive pieces …
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Newsroom | Tirana Examiner The interviewer was Alexis Papahelas, editor-in-chief of Kathimerini, Greece’s newspaper of record and the publication most reliably read across European chancelleries for signal from Athens. The venue was the Delphi Economic Forum, the annual gathering where Greek political, diplomatic, and business figures meet European and American counterparts in settings designed …
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The Newsroom Edi Rama arrived at Megaro Maximos on Wednesday in white sneakers, apologized for them, and was told he was creative. The exchange, captured for the Greek press pool, is the image that will circulate. The substance underneath it is that two prime ministers have publicly committed themselves, on their own timeline, to converting …
