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Jorida Tabaku was in Strasbourg when the European Parliament demanded the repeal of Law 21/2024. On 30 August she reached for a forged Rama post instead. Then she learned it was forged. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) On Saturday afternoon, 30 August, Jorida Tabaku, a Democratic Party MP, shared a screenshot on X. It showed …
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The prime minister emerged from the government villa promising a housing program, a plan for food price transparency, and a complaints platform that carries the name of the protest movement against him. He called the protests a real challenge, said governance must improve, and left open the question of changes to his cabinet. The Newsroom …
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Three boats crossed the Adriatic carrying Gaza to Sazan. The catastrophe they borrowed is real. The emergency they invented is not. the Newsroom (Tirana) On Friday afternoon the port of Vlora received an expedition. It had been announced on Instagram with the solemnity of a rescue mission, carried in advance by ANSA, and framed …
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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 …
