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On the afternoon Tirana burned, the EU ambassador received the opposition’s interlocutor in the Union’s own office and published nothing. The opposition published the photograph and the readout. Either Brussels chose that, or Brussels has lost control of its mission. There is no third answer. Ardit Rada The European Union’s ambassador in Tirana held …
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A declaration with plenty of words, and the only word that mattered was not among them. Albatros Rexhaj For twelve years the European Union has told Albania what the rule of law is. It is a state that protects its institutions. It is a police force that is accountable and a justice system that …
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After a night of violence in Tirana, the EU Delegation found specific words for the police and none for those who attacked the city’s institutions. Ardit Rada The European Union Delegation in Tirana did not issue a statement on the violence of 13 October. It answered a question. Report TV asked, and at 12:55 …
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The street is chanting “Rama in jail” and throwing petrol at a ministry, and the flag of the Holy See is lying on a Tirana pavement. Jorida Tabaku has told the embassies it was self-defence. The EU Delegation, which finds a sentence within the hour for every misfiled document in this country, has not found …
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By nine on Tuesday the state had denied that two students were dying. Two hours later the claim was louder than before, a 1,400-follower account in Germany was on Serbian front pages, and nobody in Tirana could say which of three things was happening to Albania on the night it closed an EU chapter. By …
The Examiner
The people who set Tirana alight on Tuesday did not challenge Edi Rama’s authority. They supplied him with the one argument he did not have to invent. Editorial Board | Tirana Examiner By the time the Ministry of Health published its evening count, 26 people had been treated in Tirana’s hospitals: six police officers, …
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The court administration builds the obstacle, the court fines the lawyer who objects, and the man in pretrial detention pays the price. By Ylli Manjani Editor’s note: Ylli Manjani is a former Albanian Minister of Justice. This piece appeared on his blog on 12 October. It returns to a dispute he first addressed in …
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Jared Kushner says his partnership paid €230 million for Albanian land, and he has accepted Albania’s final authority over the project. A potential €4 billion investment should not be sacrificed to political agendas in Washington, European newsrooms, or Tirana. by Maringlen Cara (Tirana) A senior foreign editor of WELT sat across from Edi Rama …
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The American ambassador will not sit with Sali Berisha. He sits with Berisha’s deputies, who say SPAK must be protected. Hours later Berisha calls SPAK the sworn enemy of pluralism. One party, two voices, and the embassies listen only to the one they like. the Editorial Board On Saturday morning in Tirana the American …
