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Albatros Rexhaj Young democracies are not reformed through declarations. They are reformed through slow work inside existing structures, through arguments that are built, tested, and paid for over time. This is not theory. It is the record of every country in the region that has moved toward stronger institutions. Bulgaria’s progress in fighting corruption …
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The on-site mission has concluded. The accession-relevant question is not whether Tirana has demonstrated progress, but what the assessment methodology will actually measure, and what its findings will mean for capital flows, banking-system credibility, and the IBAR track. by Bekim Besimi (Venice, Italy) The MONEYVAL assessment mission concluded its on-site work in Tirana on …
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The Pandora Papers now name who paid for the DPA’s 2017 lobbying in Washington. Eight years on, the same operation runs through the same operator. by Klea Ukaj (Michigan) In May 2018, weeks after the United States Treasury imposed sanctions on Oleg Deripaska and EN+ for what it called the Kremlin’s global malign activities …
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One Ukrainian aggregator promoted a headline verb into a political alignment. Albanian media then laundered the label back across the border. By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) On Thursday evening, POLITICO Europe published its interview with Prime Minister Edi Rama. The headline framed his remarks on Russia as a confrontation with Brussels. Within hours, a Ukrainian-language …
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POLITICO Europe rewrote Rama’s Delphi interview with a single verb. The verb revealed more about Brussels newsrooms than about Tirana. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) On Thursday evening, POLITICO Europe published Nicholas Vinocur’s interview with Prime Minister Edi Rama from the Delphi Economic Forum. The headline read: “‘We need to talk to everyone’: Albanian PM …
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the Editorial Board On Monday morning in a Westminster Magistrates’ Court, a thirty-six-year-old Albanian with a documented record of theft, false German driving licences, and admitted judicial bribery told a British judge that he could not be returned to Albania because the criminal network that once tried to kill him had carried out contract …
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A convenient narrative in Tirana reduces continuity to opposition weakness. The record suggests a more complex reality: voter choice, perceived performance, and the absence of a credible alternative. Albatros Rexhaj In Tirana, a convenient explanation circulates: Edi Rama remains in power because Sali Berisha cannot remove him. In its more refined form, this becomes …
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On what the Albanian State Police did in front of the Prime Ministry, and what the opposition did afterward. By Renada Bici | Legal Desk Two operations, forty-eight hours apart, in two European capitals. On Sunday afternoon at the Fröttmaning U-Bahn station north of Munich, several hundred masked Stuttgart ultras moved toward the Allianz …
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At home, SPAK is framed as captured. Abroad, Albania is framed as lawless. The argument cannot hold both. Maringlen Cara (Tirana) On April 20, a week before Ilir Meta’s first substantive hearing, Tedi Blushi stood before the cameras in Tirana and delivered what has become the Freedom Party’s house script. He held up documents. …
