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EU Integrations
Anton Hofreiter told Albania’s politicians not to interfere with SPAK, “not even verbally”. In 2015 he did exactly that to a German prosecutor, and he was right. by Ardit Rada (Tirana) A German politician came to Tirana this week and explained Albania to Albanians. Anton Hofreiter chairs the European affairs committee of the Bundestag. …
EU Integrations
By Ardit Rada, EU Integration Desk On 18 September the Russian consulate general in Bonn closed its doors. The German government had announced the closure on 1 September, the day it concluded that Russia was behind the attempted drone attack on Leipzig airport in early August. Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said police findings, the …
EU Integrations
A Note from Tirana Examiner Tirana Examiner is republishing this interview because Albania appears in it even when Albania is not named. Tobias Teich is a member of the German Bundestag and sits on its committees for foreign affairs and European Union affairs. In this interview with the Serbian weekly NIN, he sets out a …
EU Integrations
An EU ambassador in Tirana has one job: to stay European. Tirana has absorbed every one sent so far. A letter to the one who arrived this month. by Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) Welcome to Tirana. You will hear a lot in your first weeks. Most of it will be told to you in confidence, …
EU Integrations
The European Democratic Party has put its letterhead at the disposal of an Albanian street. The institutions that speak for Europe in Tirana should say whether that is their position too. Editorial Board On Wednesday morning the European Democratic Party posted a picture. A woman in a plis stands nose to visor with a …
EU Integrations
Ferit Hoxha is Albania’s foreign minister. Someone should remind him. Editorial Board | Tirana Examiner Ferit Hoxha went to Dublin on Thursday, met Marta Kos on the margins of the informal General Affairs Council, and produced another readout that could have been drafted on the Commission’s own letterhead. “Enlargement is about merit, momentum and …
Regional
Europe can impose costs. Serbia has learned what raises them. Albania has not learned what happens to an applicant that never does. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) On the afternoon of 1 September, at a press conference in Berlin, Germany’s interior minister stated the grounds on which the Federal Republic held Russia responsible for the …
EU Integrations
Albania aligned, complied, and extended its hand to Belgrade, and paid for the gesture in Prishtina and at home. Serbia refused alignment, produced Banjska, destabilized three neighbors, and filed a charge defining the discovery of its victims as damage to the state. One candidate answers for everything. The other has never answered for anything. by …
EU Integrations
Merit must work both ways, Ferit Hoxha said in Luxembourg. Then he described his country in the one language that guarantees it never will. by Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) Ferit Hoxha said something in Luxembourg last week that needed saying, and we want to give him full credit before we quarrel with him. Merit-based, he …
