Thursday 14:00
The Examiner
Jorida Tabaku speaks fluently to Europe and forcefully against the government. The one subject on which she stays quiet is her own party. At Zvërnec, that silence stopped being invisible. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) When the protests over Zvërnec turned, as they have, against not only the government but the way the opposition itself …
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Europe guards its protected shorelines with two different instruments. A member state that builds inside a protected zone meets the slow apparatus of the courts. A candidate that does the same meets the European Parliament, a public verdict, and its membership held as collateral. The coasts are equally protected. The difference is which country can …
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Tom Rogan’s column has no evidence for its central charge, so it reaches for a stereotype instead. The question worth asking is not what he wrote, but why he holds Albania to a standard he would apply to no one else. Albatros Rexhaj There is no obligation to admire what Jared Kushner and Ivanka …
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Ardit Rada Begin with the goats. On the eighteenth night of protest in Tirana, a herd of them stood penned behind a portable fence on the boulevard in front of the prime minister’s office, while their keepers held up signs about the coast and the rivers and the mountains. Nearby, cardboard flamingos paraded. A …
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Edi Rama went to Berlin and made a serious, sincere offer. Albania has done the work, and it means the choice. The trouble was the table he made it to. Berlin treats membership as a favour it can defer without end, and a leader as capable as Rama should stop mistaking what Berlin is willing …
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Asked to call the Nartë project an accession problem, the Enlargement Commissioner declined. Read against the Commission’s own statement a week earlier, her refusal is the news. by Ardit Rada (Tirana) Marta Kos was handed an easy invitation to escalate, and she turned it down. Asked at the Commission’s briefing this week whether the …
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By Edi Rama Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania SAZAN ISLAND is state property, which has never been intended, nor even sought, for sale. This state land would be made available, so as to turn it into a top-tier tourist destination, through the state’s participation in the investment itself. On the basis of …
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In one week, on one tour, a Greek foreign minister used the same phrase to bless Belgrade, pressure Tirana, and deny Pristina. The phrase was “international law.” The standard applied beneath it was not the same. Ngadhnjim Brovina George Gerapetritis arrived in Belgrade on 12 June with a refrain. Greek foreign policy, he said …
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Albania has made the disclosure of secret investigative acts, by those entrusted to hold them, a felony under its own Criminal Code. The recurrence of such disclosures, across cases and across the press, raises a question that belongs to SPAK, to the Special Court, and to the partners who built and fund them. An institution …
