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Rama opened his UN week in Troy with an announcement. The people it was addressed to had put it on paper nine days earlier. By Klea Ukaj, US Bureau · Troy, Michigan Edi Rama met Albanian-Americans at the Marriott in Troy on Sunday afternoon, the first stop of his trip to the UN General …
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The Newsroom (Tirana) Parliament adopted in the early hours of Friday the Socialist Party’s amendments to Law 96/2016 on the status of judges and prosecutors, setting a new formula for magistrates’ pay. The vote, at about 01:40 at the close of the plenary session of Thursday, 17 September, was 84 in favour, one abstention …
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The Newsroom (Clinton Township, MI) The State Department’s written testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe gives Albania a paragraph of its own and four concrete interests: dismantling criminal organisations, market access for American companies, a defence loan, and sales of American equipment. The official who submitted it did not read that …
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The bill goes to a plenary vote on Thursday after the High Court, the prosecutorial council and the judges’ representatives told the committee that a 0.38 coefficient falls short of the Constitutional Court’s standard. The government says the setting of salaries remains parliament’s competence. The Newsroom (Tirana) Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs approved the …
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Protest regular Edmond Jatagani arrested after reporting a terrorist threat at the Emin Duraku school; a Shqiponja officer suspended for striking a detained marcher; 20 participants in Sunday night’s road blockades referred to prosecutors. The Newsroom The 106th night and 107th morning of the anti-government protest produced three police actions in the hours around …
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The Newsroom The Tirana Administrative Court of First Instance on 11 September ordered the Ministry of Finance and the Tirana Treasury branch to resume processing payment orders and payrolls submitted by the Special Court against Corruption and Organised Crime (GJKKO). The interim measure suspends the Ministry act and the Treasury actions that had blocked …
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Prime Minister Edi Rama used a joint edition of his podcast, Flasim, and Rudina Xhunga’s programme on Dritare Television, recorded as a single four-hour interview, to address the widest range of questions he has taken in public since the Flamingo protests began: the terms of the Sazan negotiations and the status of the Zvërnec project, …
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The Newsroom The Council of Ministers approved three financing agreements with Germany, gave further details of a housing plan covering 7,000 households and extended the government’s “Prania Besnike” public-reception initiative to ministers, at a cabinet meeting on Friday morning. Ministers briefed the press afterwards; the government itself published no consolidated readout. German financing Infrastructure …
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The Newsroom Prime Minister Edi Rama announced Besfort Lamallari’s removal as Minister of the Interior on Friday and named Ervin Demo to take over the portfolio, with Demo’s local-government responsibilities to be absorbed into the Interior Ministry. Lamallari is set to leave the cabinet without a new ministerial post. The announcement came exactly one …
