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POLITICO Europe rewrote Rama’s Delphi interview with a single verb. The verb revealed more about Brussels newsrooms than about Tirana. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) On Thursday evening, POLITICO Europe published Nicholas Vinocur’s interview with Prime Minister Edi Rama from the Delphi Economic Forum. The headline read: “‘We need to talk to everyone’: Albanian PM …
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the Editorial Board On Monday morning in a Westminster Magistrates’ Court, a thirty-six-year-old Albanian with a documented record of theft, false German driving licences, and admitted judicial bribery told a British judge that he could not be returned to Albania because the criminal network that once tried to kill him had carried out contract …
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A convenient narrative in Tirana reduces continuity to opposition weakness. The record suggests a more complex reality: voter choice, perceived performance, and the absence of a credible alternative. Albatros Rexhaj In Tirana, a convenient explanation circulates: Edi Rama remains in power because Sali Berisha cannot remove him. In its more refined form, this becomes …
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On what the Albanian State Police did in front of the Prime Ministry, and what the opposition did afterward. By Renada Bici | Legal Desk Two operations, forty-eight hours apart, in two European capitals. On Sunday afternoon at the Fröttmaning U-Bahn station north of Munich, several hundred masked Stuttgart ultras moved toward the Allianz …
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At home, SPAK is framed as captured. Abroad, Albania is framed as lawless. The argument cannot hold both. Maringlen Cara (Tirana) On April 20, a week before Ilir Meta’s first substantive hearing, Tedi Blushi stood before the cameras in Tirana and delivered what has become the Freedom Party’s house script. He held up documents. …
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The EU Delegation’s April 15 Discrepancy Editorial Board, Tirana Examiner On April 15, the Ambassador of the European Union to Albania, Silvio Gonzato, hosted a meeting at the EU Delegation in Tirana between the ambassadors of EU member states and two Democratic Party MPs, Jorida Tabaku and Oerd Bylykbashi. The readout, published on the …
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Registration, due process, and SPAK’s constitutional bargain By the Tirana Examiner Legal Desk Albanian criminal procedure turns on a single procedural act. The moment a prosecutor enters a person’s name in the registry of criminal offences is the moment that person acquires formal procedural status: the right to know the accusation, the right to …
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The Editorial Board |Tirana There is a simple rule in serious politics. When a political leader’s supporters commit violence at events he has personally called and personally chaired, he is responsible. Not metaphorically. Not in the soft register of reputational damage. Responsible. Over the last three months, Sali Berisha has called seven national protests. …
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She speaks now. She did not speak then. That difference is the whole argument. Ardit Rada (Tirana) On April 17, Elisa Spiropali, only days after being removed as Albania’s Foreign Minister, published a long statement on social media declaring that she had been advised to stay silent and would not. The statement described what it …
