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By The Fact Check Desk (Tirana) Luçiano Boçi appeared on News 24 on March 26 and said, with considerable confidence, that Albanian institutions have collapsed, that the opposition bears no blame for political violence, and that Germany’s Embassy effectively endorsed the Democratic Party’s conduct. The record says otherwise on all three counts. What follows …
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FACT-CHECK Sonila Meço, “The Relativisation Technique: A Reading of Rama’s Le Point Interview” Tirana Examiner, March 26, 2026 Why this fact-check exists Albanian political commentary has a structural problem that extends well beyond this piece. Opinion writing routinely blends verified fact with contested characterisation, selective quotation, and rhetorical inflation, then circulates as a unified whole. …
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By Sonila Meço The following commentary by Sonila Meço, journalist and media personality, was published on her Facebook page following the release of Prime Minister Rama’s interview with Le Point, which the Tirana Examiner translated and published in full. We present it here as a perspective worth engaging with. The views expressed are the author’s …
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Albania’s constitution says your home is inviolable. The Criminal Procedure Code says otherwise. The Constitutional Court has been asked to resolve the contradiction. It has chosen, repeatedly, not to answer. By Ylli Manjani (Tirana) Radovan Çela took his case to Strasbourg. He had exhausted what he could in Albania, which was not much, because …
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Albania’s judicial associations invoked Italy’s referendum to advance a domestic argument they could not state openly. And in doing so crossed the boundary they exist to defend. by Renada Bici (Tirana Examiner Legal Desk) A joint statement issued today by the National Association of Judges and the Association of Prosecutors of the Republic of …
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Ervin Salianji spent ten months in prison while Albania voted. Now he wants to run against Sali Berisha for the leadership of the Democratic Party. Berisha has a single answer, repeated until it sounds like fact: the man excluded himself. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) There is a word Sali Berisha reached for three times …
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Belgrade’s official narrative erases Albanian victims by design. Europe’s accession process allows that erasure to harden into fact. By Albatros Rexhaj Twenty-seven years after Serbian forces expelled nearly one million Albanians from Kosovo, burning villages, executing civilians, and filling mass graves that would later be discovered on Serbian soil, Belgrade held a commemoration. Officials gathered …
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By Renada Bici (Tirana Examiner Legal Desk) Albania’s Constitution has guaranteed the right of direct popular participation since its adoption in 1998. Article 150 granted citizens the power to demand referendums on laws and issues of national importance. For 26 years, that guarantee existed on paper and nowhere else. The Electoral Code’s Part Nine …
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A Belgrade security report barely mentions Albania. What it does say should alarm Tirana. By Hajdi Xhixha (Tirana) A research report published recently by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy sets out to answer a question that Albania should be asking about itself but rarely does with sufficient rigour: who are the external actors …
