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Ardit Rada (Tirana) A member of the European Parliament published an ordinary letter as evidence of corruption. The letter was real. The corruption was the frame. On 16 June, the evening before the Parliament fixed its position on the 2025 Report on Albania, two Albanian members of parliament wrote to their counterparts in Strasbourg. …
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The platform read on the boulevard on June 23 calls for Edi Rama’s resignation and a twelve-month technical cabinet. A fuller plan circulated by the man who read it proposes a 101-member assembly drawn by lottery. The Socialist Party and the Democratic Party have each rejected it. The Newsroom On the twenty-third day of …
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In the grey hour after the boulevard emptied, Prime Minister Edi Rama published an open letter addressed not to the organizers of the so called Flamingo Revolution but to a single figure left behind by it. The premise is a piece of rhetorical engineering. Rama concedes the protester’s grievance as legitimate, the unpaid overtime, the …
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The Foreign Ministry and the Albanian Jewish Community both condemned the act on Sunday. It did not arrive from nowhere. Masked protesters removed and desecrated the flag at the Embassy of the State of Israel in Tirana on Saturday night, during the latest demonstration in the cycle that began over the Zvërnec coastal development. …
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Prime Minister Edi Rama used the twenty-fourth episode of the sixth season of his weekly podcast, Flasim, to open the weekly notes with a sustained literary and philosophical reflection on the nature of idealism, illusion, and manipulation in the digital age, framed through Stendhal’s character Fabrice del Dongo at the Battle of Waterloo, and directed …
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The Newsroom At the meeting of the Socialist Party (PS) parliamentary group, Prime Minister Edi Rama again commented on the protests over Zvërnec, saying that the world did not wake up because of Narta, but because of Kushner’s name and the shadow of his father-in-law, Donald Trump. Rama says that Zvërnec became part of …
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The Newsroom Albanian jurist Kreshnik Spahiu has criticized Italian Member of the European Parliament Ilaria Salis over amendments she filed in the European Parliament concerning the planned development at Zvërnec, arguing that she should first address what he described as an environmental crisis in protected areas inside Italy. Spahiu made the remarks in a …
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The prime minister’s conversation with Eleni Giokos ran from a profession of love for the European Union to a defence of the four billion euro coastal resort, and turned combative over the project and the network asking about it. The Newsroom At the Future Investment Initiative forum in Rome on Thursday, Prime Minister Edi …
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DPA Updated Wed, June 17, 2026 Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said protests against a planned luxury resort on the country’s Adriatic coast were based on misinformation, rejecting claims that protected land was being sold to investors linked to the family of US President Donald Trump. “The facts say that there is no deal …
