Thursday 15:01
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One question in the Zvërnec file can be answered now, without waiting for any verdict and without presuming any guilt: what the state was lawfully able to do about the transfer of the land. The answer is narrow, and it is the opposite of the assumption on which a national campaign has been built. by …
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Albania is preparing to repeal and replace its Law on Strategic Investments, a step Brussels has asked for over four years of progress reports. As a matter of law, the new statute will speak to the future. It will not, on its own, reach back into what the old one already granted. by Renada Bici …
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Twelve days of protest in Tirana have asked every question except the one that decides everything. Tirana Examiner Begin with what the protest has earned, because it has earned a great deal. For twelve consecutive evenings, thousands of citizens have gathered at six o’clock in Skënderbej Square and marched down the boulevard to the Prime …
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A leaderless movement built itself around an empty phrase. The Prime Minister has begun filling it. by Alban Bici (publisher of Tirana Examiner) The most important words in Tirana this June are also the emptiest. “Shqipëri e Re” has echoed down the boulevard every evening for nearly two weeks now, from Skanderbeg Square to …
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Iran’s foreign ministry answered Tirana with a produced video and a festival song from 1980. Read closely, the reply is not diplomacy. It is the operation already documented on Albanian networks, surfacing into an official channel, and this time it carries a signature. Drizan Shala Start with the video, because this time the artifact …
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The EU Ambassador may speak for the acquis. He may not settle the facts of a live Albanian dispute. Partnership requires Brussels to address Tirana, not pronounce over it. by Ardit Rada (Tirana) On 24 May, the EU Delegation in Tirana published a video. In it, Ambassador Silvio Gonzato stands in a park, wearing …
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Brussels cannot pronounce a verdict on a project that does not yet exist, and it has no standing to ask Albania to choose between Europe and its own coast. by Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) “Albania should refrain from actions that could undermine the fulfillment of the closing benchmarks,” a European Commission spokesperson told POLITICO, adding …
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The footage was authentic. The captions were written elsewhere. Inside a week a domestic grievance was re-labelled into a hostile information operation, led from Tehran and amplified by every actor that profits from a weaker Albania. Drizan Shala Start with the artifact, because the artifact gives up the method. A video circulates: a building …
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by Givi Targamadze Nineteen years ago, the Russian FSB — operating through a Russian oligarch of Georgian origin who had taken cover in the guise of political opposition — was waging a well-organized, intense assault on Georgian statehood and on our Euro-Atlantic choice, an assault whose culmination was a continuous rally. Its driving force …
