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The Newsroom Prime Minister Edi Rama closed a four-day Asian tour in Tokyo on Friday with a state-style reception at Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s office. Takaichi pledged continued Japanese backing for Albania’s EU accession. Rama invited her to Tirana for the 2027 NATO summit. The Tokyo leg followed an official visit to South Korea, with …
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The Newsroom The Albanian Assembly adopted amendments to its Rules of Procedure on Thursday by 100 votes in favour and a single vote against, closing a procedural dispute that had run since the autumn session of 2025 and had drawn an adverse ruling from the Constitutional Court. The vote restored the parliamentary convention that …
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The Newsroom The Council Working Party on Enlargement (COELA) agreed Thursday on the draft EU Common Position based on Albania’s Interim Benchmark Assessment Reports (IBARs), clearing the file without objection from any of the 27 member states. The Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER) takes the dossier on Friday afternoon and is expected to approve the …
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the Newsroom Some state visits matter for what is signed. Others matter for what is said, and where, and to whom. The Prime Minister of Albania’s five-day visit to the Republic of Korea, scheduled from 17 to 21 May and undertaken alongside Linda Rama and an official delegation, belongs firmly to the second category. Its …
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A judge has ordered pretrial detention for Commissioner Bashllari and one inspector, house arrest for two others, in the CopaCabana file. The structure has been demolished. The Interior Minister and State Police Director used the Saranda visit to address officers along the entire coast. By Aurel Cara (Tirana) A Tirana court on Monday ordered …
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Gogu signals the criminal amnesty, which would affect roughly 12,000 people, will move once the European Commission delivers its Fundamentals assessment. The minister defends judges over the live-broadcast question and promises rehabilitation at Shënkoll on the same day the Ombudsman calls for five prisons to be shut down. News Desk TIRANA. Justice Minister Toni …
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Albania’s justice reform, measured at last by the citizens it was built for by Aurel Cara (Tirana) For the first time since the vetting began, the Albanian public has been asked what it makes of the justice reform, and the answer is no longer the one the reform’s critics have grown accustomed to citing. …
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Prime Minister Edi Rama used the nineteenth episode of the sixth season of his weekly podcast, Flasim, to address several policy and governance matters: visits to Germany and Estonia connected to Albania’s European future and euroatlantic security, Albania’s formal accession to the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, bilateral cooperation with Estonia in technology …
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A citizen complaint about an illegal beach bar produced the kind of institutional result that Brussels has spent years asking Albania to deliver. The chain that ran from the complaint to the arrest of a station chief deserves examination. by Aurel Cara (Tirana) Albania’s Police Oversight Agency this week detained the chief of the …
