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What an Empirical Audit Adds, and What Single-Source Evaluation Costs Tirana Examiner Between March 1 and May 5 of this year, a Tirana-based monitoring service recorded 4,536 political articles published by 43 Albanian outlets. Within that corpus, opposition figures received 1,828 mentions against 925 for the prime minister and the government combined. Sali Berisha …
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What began as a reform to break impunity has produced a system where imbalance is built into the structure itself: the courtroom no longer functions as a space of neutral adjudication, but as one shaped by institutional asymmetry—one that doctrine alone cannot fix. by Renada Bici (Legal Examiner Desk) Skënder Minxhozi’s recent commentary on …
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by Skënder Minxhozi (Tirana) As expected, the Joint Colleges unanimously approved the commendable initiative of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Sokol Sadushi, to unify judicial decisions related to pre-trial detention measures. It is a delayed but essential step, given the scandalous overcrowding of Albanian prisons with individuals who have not been convicted. …
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Tirana Examiner, Legal Desk For fifteen years, the standard governing pretrial detention in Albania asked whether “arrest në burg” was suitable for the case. As of May 4, 2026, it asks whether any less restrictive measure would suffice. The Joint Chambers of the High Court issued the full reasoning of their April 9 decision in …
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by Renada Bici (Legal Examiner Desk) An Albanian state institution received a foreign Justice Minister at its headquarters on 29 April. The Albanian Foreign Ministry was not informed. The episode is unusual in its visibility, less so in its dynamic. It illustrates what happens to independent institutions when their domestic legitimacy comes to depend …
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Albatros Rexhaj Young democracies are not reformed through declarations. They are reformed through slow work inside existing structures, through arguments that are built, tested, and paid for over time. This is not theory. It is the record of every country in the region that has moved toward stronger institutions. Bulgaria’s progress in fighting corruption …
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The on-site mission has concluded. The accession-relevant question is not whether Tirana has demonstrated progress, but what the assessment methodology will actually measure, and what its findings will mean for capital flows, banking-system credibility, and the IBAR track. by Bekim Besimi (Venice, Italy) The MONEYVAL assessment mission concluded its on-site work in Tirana on …
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The Pandora Papers now name who paid for the DPA’s 2017 lobbying in Washington. Eight years on, the same operation runs through the same operator. by Klea Ukaj (Michigan) In May 2018, weeks after the United States Treasury imposed sanctions on Oleg Deripaska and EN+ for what it called the Kremlin’s global malign activities …
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One Ukrainian aggregator promoted a headline verb into a political alignment. Albanian media then laundered the label back across the border. By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) On Thursday evening, POLITICO Europe published its interview with Prime Minister Edi Rama. The headline framed his remarks on Russia as a confrontation with Brussels. Within hours, a Ukrainian-language …
