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Rama Addresses Italy Visit, Barcelona Democracy Summit, Diaspora Summit Retrospective, Tirana Building Fire, and Alpine Gateway Project

Prime Minister Edi Rama used the fifteenth episode of the sixth season of his weekly podcast, Flasim, to address several policy and governance matters: his two-stop visit to Rome and Barcelona, the retrospective on the fourth diaspora summit and Albania’s economic transformation, a building fire in Tirana and the government’s response to affected residents, and …

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Albania Among Leading Candidates as IBAR Moves to Council

Brussels signals strong progress for Tirana while the Cluster 1 decision moves to Member States, as the Commission’s written response to A2CNN sets out the first public shape of Albania’s 51 transitional requests. Newsroom Analysis | Tirana   European Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos told BBC News that Albania, Montenegro and Moldova are the three candidate …

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Seventh PD protest ends in two and a half hours as police seize forty-five Molotovs and arrest eleven

Skënder Hita’s first test as State Police chief produces the first protest in the recent sequence to be stopped before wider escalation. Five officers hospitalised. Berisha responds with unsupported claims; the Interior Minister responds from the ward. The Newsroom | Tirana   The Democratic Party’s seventh national protest in three months ended on Friday evening …

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Between Rome and Barcelona: Rama’s Italy Axis and the Limits of a Personal Diplomacy

Aurel Cara (Tirana)   Prime Minister Edi Rama arrived at Palazzo Chigi on Thursday afternoon for what the Italian government, in a carefully worded readout, described as a chance to “take stock of the strengthening of the partnership between the two countries in sectors of common interest, with particular focus on interconnection, the defence industry, …

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Three Interpellations Collapse, Parliament Brawls, Five Laws Pass: Inside the 16 April Session

the Newsroom (Tirana)   The Parliament convened Thursday for a session scheduled to hold three cabinet members to account. It held none of them. By the time Speaker Niko Peleshi gaveled the chamber into its late-afternoon ratification block, Defence Minister Ermal Nufi was stranded by a Lufthansa strike returning from Zagreb, Culture Minister Mirela Kumbaro …

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Salianji Cites UK Appeal Record on Berisha Non Grata Status as Party Rupture Goes Public

The former deputy’s decision to speak on record marks a new phase in a feud that is now drawing internal Democratic Party dissent into the open. by the Newsroom (Tirana)   A former senior figure in the Democratic Party went on record Tuesday to cite the British appeal record on Sali Berisha’s non grata designation, …

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Albania’s Fourth Diaspora Summit: Ambition, Frustration, and the Question of Whether the State Is Listening

The Newsroom (Tirana)   Albanians from 38 countries gathered in Tirana on Tuesday for the Fourth Diaspora Summit, the most ambitious convening of its kind to date. The panels produced a picture more complicated than the institutional framing suggested: genuine policy proposals alongside unresolved structural tensions, and at least one intervention from the floor that …

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Albania’s Diaspora Summit Opens in Tirana as Rama Frames Emigration as National Asset

Prime Minister invokes Ismail Qemali, cites EU accession record, and calls on diaspora to invest in mountain property the Newsroom (Tirana)   The fourth edition of the Albanian Diaspora Summit opened its working sessions in Tirana on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Edi Rama and Foreign Minister Ferit Hoxha delivering the keynote addresses to an audience …

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Tirana Calibrates Its Welcome as Budapest Turns a Page

Tirana Examiner Newsroom   The results from Hungary arrived with unusual clarity. Péter Magyar’s Tisza party won a landslide two-thirds supermajority, ending sixteen years of Viktor Orbán’s rule and, in the process, handed Albanian political actors a mirror they were not expecting to receive on a Sunday evening. Tirana’s official response came in layers, and …