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A major Italian documentary exposed Albania’s criminal networks with precision — then undermined its own case by elevating a politically compromised defendant into expert testimony without disclosure. By Ardit Rada | Tirana Examiner On the evening of April 1, 2026, Italian public television broadcast a documentary about Albania’s organised crime problem. Among the experts …
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The Democratic Party has no founders left, no dissidents, no independent voices. Berisha removed them deliberately. The question now is what survives him. Tirana Examiner Analysis Sali Berisha has now expelled more internal enemies than Enver Hoxha and Stalin produced between them. The observation comes from analyst Kreshnik Spahiu, and it deserves to be …
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Editorial Board | Tirana Examiner There is a version of what is currently happening between Albania and its European partners that the opposition would like Europe to accept. In that version, the Albanian government’s position on the Balluku immunity case is evidence of institutional capture, Prime Minister Rama’s defense of a close associate is …
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How Europe Judges Albania by a Standard It Does Not Apply to Itself By Albatros Rexhaj and Renada Bici On March 5, 2026, the Czech Chamber of Deputies refused to lift the immunity of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš on EU subsidy fraud charges, and of Chamber President Tomio Okamura on incitement charges. Both refusals …
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Three unrelated events are being fused into a single narrative of control. Remove the sequence, and the argument collapses. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) This needs to be said plainly: external audiences are being fed a narrative about what occurred inside Saturday’s Socialist Party parliamentary group meeting that does not correspond to what actually occurred. …
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by the Editors (Tirana) Albania is the best-performing democracy in a region where democracy is failing. That is not a political claim. It is the conclusion of the 2026 Transformation Index of the Bertelsmann Stiftung. In a comparative field that includes Serbia, now classified as a “moderate autocracy,” and a set of systems described …
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A North Macedonian deputy prime minister accuses Albania of holding a political prisoner. The claim says more about Skopje’s past than Tirana’s present. By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) On Friday, in the parliament of North Macedonia, a deputy prime minister stood before his colleagues and declared that Albania is holding a political prisoner. Alexandar Nikolovski, …
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Danijel Apostolovic, Serbia’s EU accession chief, says member state ambassadors welcomed the Rama–Vučić proposal. Marta Kos spoke too soon. by Ardit Rada (Tirana) When Marta Kos responded to the joint Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung proposal by Edi Rama and Aleksandar Vučić, she was direct. She was not sure, she said, whether the two leaders understood …
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How Russian and Serbian state media built Albania into a threat narrative it has never thought to answer. By Hajdi Xhixha Albania does not feature prominently in its own information warfare threat assessment. It probably should. The Sputnik Serbia article published on March 24, ostensibly covering Kosovo Security Force participation in the NATO logistics …
