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Three times Albania was on its knees, in 2019, 2020 and this October. Three times the help came from the one European country that does not go to church. The capitals that preach the Gospel to the Balkans stood in the doorway and made it worse. By Maringlen Cara (Tirana) There are three rules …
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Two hundred police injured, eighty protesters. The Delegation named the police first, found words for the attackers a day later, and has never explained what changed overnight. Editorial Board This morning, 20 October, the Prime Minister gave the count for the week: around 200 police officers injured, around 80 protesters. The Health Ministry’s figure …
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Prime Minister puts the toll at some 200 police officers and 80 protesters injured, says masked youths were “paid and brought in from the peripheries”, and asks teachers to keep a diary of these days TE Newsroom | Tirana Prime Minister Edi Rama on Tuesday described the violence that has accompanied the Tirana protests …
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Tirana Examiner Newsroom On the seventh day of the protests that began on 13 October, Prime Minister Edi Rama spoke four times on Monday, in three written posts and one televised statement delivered standing among State Police officers beside Interior Minister Ervin Demo. The government offered dialogue with the protesters in every text and …
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Tirana Examiner Newsroom Thirteen. Fourteen. Fifteen. On a Monday morning when every school in Tirana was open, children of that age stood in front of the Kryeministria in numbers this publication’s reporters had not seen on any day of the past week. Yesterday there were some. Today there are many. And they are not …
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A veteran of 1997 says the quiet part first: Albania is a democracy, and in a democracy governments change through votes. Tirana Examiner Newsroom Daniel Serwer has seen Tirana burn before. He was in Albania in 1997, after the pyramid schemes collapsed and the state with them, and he told Top Channel’s Muhamed Veliu …
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An open letter to the Ambassador of the United States Editorial Board Your embassy spoke on Friday night at eleven o’clock. Three sentences. Violence is not civic engagement. Protest peacefully. Restraint and calm on all sides. By then the High Court had taken molotovs. So had the Bank of Albania. A private bank was …
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Tirana, 18 October 2026, morning Prime Minister Edi Rama addressed the violent protests in Tirana this morning from the boulevard, speaking with a paving stone in his hand. He said the violence is seeking blood and that he has tried not to fall into that trap. “Here I am, I have not gone. In …
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Editorial Board “Yesterday they backed the protest, today the EU Delegation asks the students for restraint: We strongly condemn the escalation of violence and the destruction of property” (“Dje mbështetën protestën, sot Delegacioni i BE kërkon vetëpërmbajtje nga studentët: Dënojmë me forcë përshkallëzimin e dhunës dhe shkatërrimin e pronës”). That is Newsbomb’s headline this …
