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The Examiner
Albania’s media market is broken. The answer is formalization, not prosecution — and certainly not a prime minister pointing fingers from a podium. By Ylli Manjani (Tirana) On March 13th, Prime Minister Edi Rama expelled a journalist from his press conference and publicly accused her outlet of money laundering. No charges have been filed. …
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Albania’s public finances look stronger than they have in years. The guaranteed debt is falling. The tax receipts are surging. What the numbers don’t say is that both trends trace back to the same thing: concrete being poured on land that can only be permitted once. by Redion Karriqi (Tirana) In the first two months …
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Albania’s opposition took its case to Berlin — but without a reform agenda, it risked shaping the country’s EU file as much as strengthening it. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) Gazment Bardhi, Jorida Tabaku, and Klevis Balliu flew to Berlin on Wednesday and spent a day telling German officials that Albania is failing. They said …
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Albania’s new energy minister is a technocrat in a sector that has burned through political appointees. That, right now, is exactly the point. by Dorina Muka (Tirana) In the autumn of 2021, Albania declared an energy emergency. The country’s electricity import bill for the first eleven months of that year had reached 213 million …
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The U.S. Intelligence Community’s 2026 threat assessment names the Russian hybrid campaign running through Albania’s neighborhood with more precision than any previous report. The administration that produced it said nothing about it from the podium. Tirana should not make the same mistake. By Marinela Pole (Tirana) On March 18, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi …
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Albania’s opposition thinks it is attacking Rama. It is attacking SPAK. by Eris Zenelaj (Tirana) On the evening of 17 March, two opposition MPs sat for separate interviews on Studio24 and, without coordinating, made the same argument. Erald Kapri of Mundësia was direct: “The one who benefits politically from this is Prime Minister Edi …
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The veteran commentator opens his March 17 broadcast with a sweeping indictment of a prime minister he says has traded Albania’s European future for his own political survival. By Adi Krasta (Tirana) Welcome to the program. Who knows what those hundreds of demonstrators are thinking now — those who gathered in that distant time …
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Parliament protected one of its own. Now it must protect everyone else. By Ylli Manjani (Tirana) The vote to block SPAK’s arrest request against Belinda Balluku should be a beginning, not an end. Albania’s parliament has been handed an opportunity — and so far, it has chosen to squander it. Let me be clear …
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On 15 March, former Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati wrote on social media that Vučić’s return to war rhetoric days after the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung initiative confirmed the familiar double score — one register for Europe, another for domestic consumption — and that Albanian politics was meanwhile expending energy on an Iran resolution when adequate legal …
