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The opposition leader crossed the ocean he had been told he would never cross again. The community that received him is not one community, and part of it has learned to act without him. By Klea Ukaj, US Bureau · Clinton Township, Michigan The Austrian Airlines flight from Vienna touched down at John F. …
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The Newsroom (Tirana) Paolo Zampolli, President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy for Global Partnerships, spent Monday in Tirana in a series of meetings with Albanian government officials, representatives of both major political parties and the leadership of the Bektashi Order, during what he repeatedly described as an informal courtesy visit. The Italian-born American businessman and …
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Albania built independent institutions to keep politics out. Constitutional maturity requires those institutions to recognise the boundary in the other direction, too. A Legal Desk editorial “Secili institucion në vendin e vet.” Each institution in its place. The Prime Minister wrote it on Sunday, about a pay dispute, and the occasion was small enough …
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Tirana Examiner Staff Report | Cernobbio and Tirana Prime Minister Edi Rama used his first appearance at the Ambrosetti forum in Cernobbio on Saturday to restate his case for the gradual integration of candidate countries into the European Union, to say that he does not believe 2027 will “happily await” Albania with veto rights, …
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Mother Teresa belonged to the world. She also said, “By blood, I am Albanian.” The life behind that sentence belongs to a nation that has never had one religion. By Maringlen Cara (Tirana) “By blood, I am Albanian.” Mother Teresa said it herself. The sentence continues: “By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am …
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Prime Minister Edi Rama has nominated Klodiana Spahiu, a cardiologist and Deputy Speaker of the Assembly, as Minister of Health and Social Welfare, a day after Evis Sala resigned from the post. Rama confirmed the nomination to Tirana Examiner on Thursday afternoon. The proposal was made at Thursday’s meeting of the extended Socialist Party parliamentary …
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The prime minister announces the Merit Ladder recruitment system, weekly constituency sessions from this Friday, a performance module of 100 points for Socialist MPs, and the first public release under PasqyrAlbania, covering Sazan and Zvërnec. Tirana Examiner Prime Minister Edi Rama set out a broad package of changes to the relationship between citizens, public …
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We take Evis Sala at her word about why she is leaving. The record of why she should have is the harder document. Editorial Board At 14:37 on Wednesday, before most of the country knew there had been a cabinet meeting, the Minister of Health and Social Welfare announced that it had been her …
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Three days, two Alpine forums, a US under secretary, a Commissioner, a Director-General and the EU’s Kosovo–Serbia envoy. The Foreign Minister closed the sequence with a live interview from Slovenia on chapters, consulates, NATO and Greece. Tirana Examiner Newsroom Ferit Hoxha spent the last three days of the summer on the conference circuit that opens …
