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Albania’s police found the suspect in five hours. Under Skënder Hita, they have spent the summer arresting police chiefs, suspending officers and stripping security licenses. The Principote case is the next test of that campaign. By Drizan Shala The video from Levan shows a car with foreign plates stopped on the roadside and a …
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The Newsroom (Tirana) Albania has expressed deep concern over the statement by Serbia’s president, Aleksandar Vučić, on the possibility of changing the course of the Ibër (Ibar) river, with Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Ferit Hoxha warning that a transboundary watercourse cannot be altered unilaterally and that water cannot be used as an …
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Albania has caught the eye of Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. We meet prime minister Edi Rama as he attempts to head off protests against plans for a new kind of luxury tourism. Writer: Guy De Launey Photographer: James Mollison Edi Rama doesn’t seem thrilled when Monocle visits his office but that could have something …
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The Newsroom (Tirana) Prime Minister Edi Rama presented a new internal party document to the Socialist Party leadership on Thursday, telling regional political directors and the chairs of the parliamentary committees that the party’s electoral machinery must undergo what he called a vital transformation and be saved “from itself.” The document, titled “Prania Besnike” …
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Channel 4 News, 29 July 2026 Reported by Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor Full transcript of the broadcast report and the interview with Prime Minister Edi Rama. Prepared from the transcript published by Channel 4 News. Speaker labels added; Albanian place names restored to standard spelling (the published transcript renders Zvërnec as “Svernic/Zvernic” and Narta as …
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New polling suggests the summer’s protest wave cost Edi Rama support that was real, narrow, and temporary. The opposition captured none of it. On 13 June, at the height of Albania’s summer of protest, a link began arriving on Albanian phones. It was sent by SMS to random numbers across the country, and it …
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by Edi Rama (Prime Minister of Albania) I have come today to speak to you about what we saw and heard during the month of June, when the boulevard filled with people from every walk of life, every social category, every age — and when a rare bird, beautiful and fragile, became the symbol …
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Prime Minister Edi Rama delivered the following address on July 12, 2026, in a video statement published on his social media channels, one day after the Kanye West concert held at Eagle Stadium in Tirana before some 60,000 attendees from more than 80 countries. The address responds to criticism of the government’s decision to commit …
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Editorial Board | Tirana Examiner The Secretary General ended the speculation in Ankara. The real uncertainty was never Albania’s ability to host, but whether NATO will continue holding annual summits at all. The question was answered in Ankara, in the plainest language the Alliance’s Secretary General could manage. “The next Summit will indeed be …
