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Rama sets the agenda from Durrës: referendums, reformed prefects, and a dare to his critics. by the Newsroom (Tirana) Prime Minister Edi Rama addressed the Socialist Party assembly in Durrës on Saturday in what amounted to one of the more programmatically dense internal party speeches he has delivered in recent memory. The setting was …
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Albania gains a clearer role in advancing Kosovo’s EU bid — provided it can convert coordination into sustained diplomacy. the Newsroom (Tirana) Albania has an opportunity to translate political alignment with Kosovo into something more operational. Whether it can do so is now the central question. In a March 19 phone call with Kosovo’s …
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The Democratic Party’s May 23 leadership race is taking shape as a contest over whether the party can renew itself — or whether its rules exist only to protect the incumbent. by Aurel Cara (Tirana) The Democratic Party’s internal leadership race hardened into open confrontation this week, as former MP Ervin Salianji declared his …
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Bardhi, Tabaku, and Balliu met with senior CDU figures and the Foreign Ministry’s Western Balkans director; Këlliçi held separate talks at EPP headquarters in Brussels. by the Newsroom (Tirana) Albania’s EU accession conditions — anti-corruption enforcement, judicial independence, and free and fair elections — were at the centre of a series of meetings held …
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As Brussels takes credit for reversing a policy it struggled to abandon, Tirana presses for the next step. by the Newsroom (Tirana) Albanian Foreign Minister Ferit Hoxha on Tuesday welcomed the European Union’s decision to lift all punitive measures against Kosovo, describing the move as long overdue and urging Brussels to advance Kosovo’s application …
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Democratic Party MP Genc Strazimiri accuses the EU and OSCE of responding to Albania’s justice crisis with impotence — and says the opposition’s role is to watch the government collapse under its own weight. The Newsroom (Tirana) During an interview with Flavio Qarri on the morning show Kafe Shqeto on Syri TV, the DP …
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Kreshnik Spahiu says Sali Berisha cannot legally run for PD leader. He also says the opposition played both sides on Iran. And he’s been making arguments like this for thirty-six years. by Aurel Cara (Tirana) It was a Monday evening in Tirana, and the parliament had just done something it rarely does cleanly: voted. …
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When Washington asked its allies to act on Iran, Albania’s opposition chose a protest march instead. the Newsroom (Tirana) On a morning when the United States was pressing its allies to take a public stand against Iran, Albania’s main opposition party was elsewhere. The Democratic Party boycotted Tuesday’s parliamentary session — the one that …
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The Democratic Party voted on Monday to hold a leadership election in May. It also established a working group whose unstated purpose is to remove the accountability clause Berisha himself wrote — the one that required a chairman to resign after losing a parliamentary vote. He lost in May 2025. The clause is still there. …
