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The prime minister is entitled to a vision. His ministers are paid to execute it, not to review it. By Ylli Manjani (Tirana) Political platforms baptized “Besa” or “Pasqyra” are, beyond doubt, the newest form of political marketing Edi Rama has chosen for communicating with the public. One may agree or disagree with their …
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A candidate for EU membership has promised state honours to a genocide convict. Diplomats who file that under Bosnia should read what Tirana said in July. by Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) On 28 August, in the square in Pale, people queued to kiss a framed photograph of Ratko Mladić propped against a wall beneath the …
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Rama offered them a besa. Albania should give them standing in a court of law. by Keler Marku (Washington, DC) In February 2021, seventy-three Albanian civil-society organizations wrote to the speaker of Parliament and six other parliamentary leaders with a concrete request: sponsor their draft law “On Collective Actions.” Their four-page request came with …
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Behgjet Pacolli gives interviews. The ministry he is suing says almost nothing. In arbitration, only one of those becomes evidence. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) On 5 August a letter from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy reached MABCO Constructions SA. It informed the company that the Albanian state had opened the procedure to terminate …
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Spajić named no states. His sources named two. What Podgorica reveals by letting the second name stand. By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) On Thursday afternoon, the Prime Minister of Montenegro announced on X that his government holds “serious operational security information” that the coming closure of negotiating chapters with Brussels will be accompanied by coordinated …
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On Wednesday Albania’s judiciary set its own pay. No grievance in the file confers that power, and the file was checked. By Renada Bici, Legal Desk On Wednesday the High Judicial Council seized a competence of parliament. That is the precise description of what happened in the Council’s chamber, and the rest of this …
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By Ylli Manjani, former Minister of Justice of Albania There is a point at which the absurd stops being a mistake. It becomes a system. On Wednesday the High Judicial Council, the KLGJ, the governing body the 2016 constitutional reform created for Albania’s courts, voted nine to zero to raise the reference salary of every …
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A Serbian intelligence operation against Kosovo’s prime minister moved through an Albanian portal and borrowed the name of Albania’s intelligence service. Neither is Kosovo’s problem to solve. Both are Albania’s. By Drizan Shala An intelligence operation is legible in what it borrows. When a service wants a fabrication to travel, it does not send …
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Albania’s restraint is the conduct of a confident European state. It should not be mistaken for consent. Editorial Board On 20 August, in the square at Pustec, a formal standing line assembled for the opening of a Macedonian folklore festival: the Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Hristijan Mickoski, beside him local officials, behind them …
