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The Newsroom The eighth in the series of street protests called by Democratic Party leader Sali Berisha, held on Thursday evening on Boulevard Dëshmorët e Kombit in central Tirana, drew the smallest crowd of the cycle, produced no political speeches, and ended with three militants detained after a failed attempt to break a police cordon …
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The Newsroom Tirana hosted the opening session of the World Law Congress on Thursday, the first formal step in a programme of preparatory events that will culminate in the 30th edition of the Congress in 2027, when the Albanian capital becomes the seat of what its organisers describe as the Davos of Law. The session, …
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Foreign Minister Ferit Hoxha appeared before the Foreign Affairs Committee on Monday to brief deputies on the state of Albania’s EU accession negotiations, the Commission’s Interim Benchmark Assessment Report, and the joint Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung op-ed signed by Prime Minister Edi Rama and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić. Hoxha rejected the opposition’s central claim that the …
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The Newsroom The Democratic Party’s Commission for the Organization and Control of Electoral Operations has formally disqualified every announced challenger to Sali Berisha in the 23 May leadership contest, leaving the former prime minister as the sole candidate in a process that the PD itself once described as the most consequential internal vote since the …
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The Albanian prime minister presents new bronzes at Galerie Société and thirteen drawings at the Italian Embassy, then sits for a reverse interview with Fabrizio Bucci on Brussels, Ukraine, and Tirana’s ambition to become “a little Italy.” The Newsroom Edi Rama arrived in the German capital this week wearing the second of his two …
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At the Foreign Policy Forum 2026 organized by the Albanian Institute for International Studies (AIIS), Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Ferit Hoxha sets out a doctrine of flexibility in an unpredictable world, reaffirming EU accession, regional cooperation, and Kosovo’s international consolidation as core priorities. Speaking at the Foreign Policy Forum 2026, organized by the …
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The Newsroom Albania signed a twenty-year liquefied natural gas agreement on Wednesday in Tirana, valued at six billion dollars across the term, structured around three counterparties: ALBGAZ on the Albanian state side, the Virginia-based producer Venture Global on the upstream supply side, and Aktor LNG USA, the trading vehicle of Greece’s Aktor Group, on …
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27 April 2026 hearing, Council of High Prosecution Klodian Braho, who took over SPAK from Altin Dumani on 11 December 2025, presented his first annual report to the Council of High Prosecution on Monday, 27 April 2026. The hearing, held under Article 105 of Law 97/2016, ran approximately one hour. Braho was accompanied by BKH …
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Judge Engjëllushe Tahiri denied requests to broadcast the trial live, to digitise the investigative file, and to remove the mayor from the glass enclosure. SPAK prosecutor Altin Dumani told the court the defence had spent two months on artificial filings; attorney Plarent Ndreca said the only person in custody was his client, who had every …
