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Prime Minister Edi Rama delivered the following address on July 12, 2026, in a video statement published on his social media channels, one day after the Kanye West concert held at Eagle Stadium in Tirana before some 60,000 attendees from more than 80 countries. The address responds to criticism of the government’s decision to commit …
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Editorial Board | Tirana Examiner The Secretary General ended the speculation in Ankara. The real uncertainty was never Albania’s ability to host, but whether NATO will continue holding annual summits at all. The question was answered in Ankara, in the plainest language the Alliance’s Secretary General could manage. “The next Summit will indeed be …
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Prime Minister Edi Rama used his weekly podcast to address several policy and governance matters: the June normative budget act and its package of citizen support measures, the ongoing boulevard protests and the government’s engagement with genuine grievances, the Zvërnec and Sazan investment projects and the role of the European Commission as guarantor, a visit …
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In four days of coordinated statements, the governing majority has distinguished the movement’s legitimate grievances from its violent and utopian fringe, received an unexpected endorsement of that distinction from the protest’s own legal conscience, and opened the way to a dialogue that will test both sides By Ardit Rada, Tirana Examiner Governments under sustained …
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The 33rd day of Albania’s protest movement produced its most serious confrontation to date. Clashes outside Parliament on Thursday morning left 15 police officers injured, according to the State Police, and ended with 19 people arrested and a further 12 placed under investigation. Police said Friday morning that work is underway to identify six more …
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Thirty days into the protest movement, the crowd outside the Kuvend crossed from ritual insult into violence. A reconstruction of July 2, hour by hour, and what it cost the movement that committed it. The Newsroom At two minutes past ten on Thursday morning, a stone thrown from the crowd outside the Kuvend struck …
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Renada Bici (Tirana Examiner Legal Desk) On the evening of July 1, from a stage in front of the Prime Minister’s office, a call went out to surround the Kuvend, Albania’s parliament, and prevent its deputies from entering. On the morning of July 2 the attempt was made. Eggs and flour struck the Speaker’s …
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Six demonstrators, among them a leading figure of the movement, were detained during the sharpest confrontation since the anti-government wave began, then released within hours as crowds gathered outside a Tirana commissariat. The Newsroom The plenary session had not yet opened when the first chants reached the deputies slipping into the building ahead of …
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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. …
