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A demonstrator was beaten and dragged across a fence line by masked men on Saturday. Before the day was out a police chief had been suspended, a guard arrested, and an official account withdrawn. The test of an institution is not whether abuse occurs on its watch, but how fast it names the abuse and …
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Prime Minister Edi Rama used the twenty-first episode of the sixth season of his weekly podcast, Flasim, to address several policy and governance matters: the historical significance of the May 26 Brussels intergovernmental conference opening the final phase of EU accession negotiations, the accession timeline with chapter closure by end of 2027 and membership by …
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Albania closes the opening phase. The 8th Intergovernmental Conference confirms fulfilment of the Cluster 1 interim benchmarks and sets the closing benchmarks for Chapters 23 and 24. Berlin and The Hague condition what comes next. The Eighth Intergovernmental Conference between Albania and the European Union concluded in Brussels on Tuesday with three operative outcomes. The …
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How a Saturday vote with one name on the ballot exposed the architecture of the party Sali Berisha now owns outright, and the limits of the challenge mounted against him Legal Desk The Tirana Examiner The bulletin that members of the Democratic Party of Albania marked on 23 May in 87 voting centres across …
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Property Administration Is Being Unified Into an Agency Whose 2025 Ombudsman File Is on the Record Tirana Examiner Legal Desk On the same day the Council of the European Union convenes the 8th Intergovernmental Conference Albania-EU in Brussels to confirm that Albania has fulfilled the interim benchmarks of Cluster 1 and to set closing …
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The Newsroom Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias was received in Tirana on Monday by Albanian Defense Minister Ermal Nufi and Prime Minister Edi Rama, in a visit that Greek media framed in advance as an effort to reactivate the long-stalled maritime delimitation negotiations between the two countries. After the bilateral with Rama, which was followed …
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The Newsroom Prime Minister Edi Rama on Sunday confirmed Albania will formally enter the closing phase of European Union accession negotiations at the Eighth Intergovernmental Conference in Brussels on Monday, and told supporters at a Socialist Party rally that a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz would follow in the coming days. No date, venue …
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Prime Minister Edi Rama used the twentieth episode of the sixth season of his weekly podcast, Flasim, to address several policy and governance matters: visits to South Korea and Japan and the growth of Albania’s international standing, the May 26 intergovernmental conference in Brussels marking the opening of the final phase of EU accession negotiations, …
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by Aurel Cara (Tirana) The body that ruled on who could challenge Sali Berisha for the chairmanship of the Democratic Party is a body whose composition is determined by Sali Berisha. This is not a procedural detail of secondary order. It is the determinative fact about what the 23 May ballot certified. Five potential candidates …
