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The EU Delegation’s April 15 Discrepancy Editorial Board, Tirana Examiner On April 15, the Ambassador of the European Union to Albania, Silvio Gonzato, hosted a meeting at the EU Delegation in Tirana between the ambassadors of EU member states and two Democratic Party MPs, Jorida Tabaku and Oerd Bylykbashi. The readout, published on the …
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Registration, due process, and SPAK’s constitutional bargain By the Tirana Examiner Legal Desk Albanian criminal procedure turns on a single procedural act. The moment a prosecutor enters a person’s name in the registry of criminal offences is the moment that person acquires formal procedural status: the right to know the accusation, the right to …
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The Editorial Board |Tirana There is a simple rule in serious politics. When a political leader’s supporters commit violence at events he has personally called and personally chaired, he is responsible. Not metaphorically. Not in the soft register of reputational damage. Responsible. Over the last three months, Sali Berisha has called seven national protests. …
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She speaks now. She did not speak then. That difference is the whole argument. Ardit Rada (Tirana) On April 17, Elisa Spiropali, only days after being removed as Albania’s Foreign Minister, published a long statement on social media declaring that she had been advised to stay silent and would not. The statement described what it …
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The summoning of Edi Rama as a witness does not change the “Partizani” case; it tests whether the court will remain anchored in the evidence or drift into a political confrontation staged for the public by Sali Berisha. The law does not permit theater. Renada Bici | Legal Desk On 15 April, a session …
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Albania is targeting the financial core of organized crime — the region remains inconsistent by Marinela Pole (Tirana) The operation announced today by the Special Anti-Corruption and Organised Crime Prosecutor’s Office (SPAK), targeting a narcotics network linking Latin America to Western Europe, is not an isolated strike. With eleven arrest warrants, three executed, and …
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When Paris does it, it is read as constitutional. When Tirana does it, it is read as backsliding. By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) On April 14, French investigators arrived at the Élysée Palace as part of a judicial probe into public procurement contracts worth millions of euros, awarded repeatedly over two decades without competitive tendering …
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TIRANA EXAMINER Editorial Board A claim circulates with some persistence in discussions of Albanian media: that the country’s major television stations have been captured by the governing Socialist Party and function, in practice, as instruments of the Rama administration. The claim appears in diplomatic conversations, in reports by international observers, and in the domestic …
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Albatros Rexhaj When Viktor Orbán conceded defeat on April 12, something more than a government changed in Budapest. A political system built over sixteen years to make alternation structurally improbable was overturned by a supermajority of Hungarian voters. The scale of Tisza’s victory, 138 seats against Fidesz’s 55, was not a normal electoral rotation. …
