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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 …
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In a small capital, senior politicians cannot afford the luxury of consequence-free speculation. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) Gazmend Bardhi told a national television audience on the evening of March 12 that he had verified the reasons for Kimberly Guilfoyle’s visit to Tirana. “Kam verifikuar arsyet e vizitës,” he said. Not suggested. Not heard. Verified. …
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Albania has a pretrial detention problem. A Socialist MP saying so is only useful if he says it without flinching. by Ardit Bido (Tirana) The author is a Member of the Albanian Parliament (Socialist Party). The Tirana Examiner publishes contributors across the political spectrum; party affiliation is disclosed in the interest of transparency. The …
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Tirana Examiner — Legal Desk The March 10 report published by Kasowitz LLP — retained international counsel for Erion Veliaj, the detained Mayor of Tirana — raises issues that warrant serious legal examination independent of the advocacy context in which they were produced. Kasowitz is defense counsel; its report is an advocacy document, not a …
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GJKKO and the Legal Question It Has Declined to Answer Legal Desk | Tirana Examiner A court has someone suspended from a job she no longer holds. Two judicial panels have now declined to explain what that means. The question is whether this reflects a legal principle — or an institutional instinct the court …
