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By Ardit Rada | Tirana Examiner Staff Writer A report published by Balkan Insight on April 8 carries a serious charge: that Albanian public institutions are deliberately obstructing journalists’ Freedom of Information requests, and that the decline in FOI filings from journalists last year is evidence of a system designed to wear people down. …
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When the opposition truly has the support of the people, it can bring down even a mafia-state like Hungary had become by Carlo Bollino (Tirana) The defeat of Viktor Orbán in Hungary marks a moment that reaches far beyond the borders of Budapest. For years, the system built by the Hungarian leader was described …
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The data behind Albania’s procurement system tells a different story than its reputation, forcing a more precise question for EU decision-makers. By Bekim Besimi (Venice) There is a point in every enlargement process where argument detaches from evidence and begins to run on reputation alone. Albania has reached that point. The country is now …
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When courts trade evidence for perception, detention stops being law and starts being belief. Renada Bici | Tirana Examiner Legal Desk On Wednesday, Albania’s Constitutional Court — the country’s highest judicial authority and the final domestic guardian of individual rights — upheld the continued imprisonment of a former head of state pending trial. What it …
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By Ylli Manjani (Tirana) The Constitutional Court’s decision to reject Ilir Meta’s appeal is not a procedural footnote. It is a warning signal about how criminal justice actually functions in reformed Albania. The reasoning the Court employed — that there “appear to be facts capable of convincing even an outside observer that the person …
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Aurel Cara (Tirana) Gazment Bardhi delivered his statement on parliamentary obstruction with the precision of a man who knows his real audience is not in the chamber. The report — cataloguing six months of rejected committees, refused interpellations, and disciplinary exclusions — was addressed formally to the Speaker of Parliament and, more meaningfully, to …
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by Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) Ditmir Bushati has written a note about Albania’s EU accession process that reads, at first encounter, like serious intervention. The concern he raises, that the public debate has been hollowed out into a performance of slogans while the substantive reform conversation goes unexamined, is not wrong. But a legitimate concern …
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by Ditmir Bushati Albania’s EU accession process is being covered by the fog of a debate that serves no one. Public opinion is being oriented around the approval or non-approval of the European Commission’s Interim Benchmark Assessment Report (IBAR) in the field of the rule of law. From the very starting point, the negotiation …
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The Tirana Examiner Legal Desk provides institutional analysis of Albanian legislation and judicial developments. This analysis is based on the draft amending text and Law 10/2023 as enacted. Renada Bici | Tirana Examiner Legal Desk The draft amendments to Law 10/2023 on classified information arrived in the Albanian parliament without significant public commentary. That …
