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This weekend Edi Rama gathers his ministers for a retreat in Pogradec, armed with two strategic documents about the gap between power and the citizens. He himself appears in neither. This piece fills that absence, with a simple reminder: his legitimacy was born among Albanians, and only there can it be lost. by Albatros Rexhaj …
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By Ylli Manjani, former Minister of Justice of Albania Translated from the Albanian original, published 14 August 2026. I cannot find a single genuinely successful political narrative from the opposition parties in all the time Edi Rama has governed. I say this not without pain, because for a long time I have wanted to find …
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Russia has spent 148 years choosing Serbia at the expense of Albanians. Its own arithmetic no longer explains why. By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) Last week this publication published a letter to the Ambassador of Ukraine in Tirana. It concerned President Zelensky’s answer at the Belgrade press conference of 8 August, where, asked whether Serbia …
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Serbia’s minister called borders sacrosanct, listed Ukraine, China and Cyprus, then added Albania “of course.” The reassurance is the warning. The Editorial Board On Monday a minister of the Serbian government published a list. Borders, wrote Nemanja Starović, are sacrosanct, “whether we are speaking of Serbia, Ukraine, China, or Cyprus”, and then, in parentheses, …
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Belgrade named the Albanians, then objected when Albania answered. The record requires correcting. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) On Monday, Serbia’s foreign minister Marko Đurić published a lengthy statement in English, hashtags included, addressed to his Albanian counterpart, concerning a river that rises in Montenegro and sustains Kosovo. Albania’s stated concern over the announced diversion …
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Albania answered the river announcement with Serbia’s own treaty file. The file says more than the statement does. By Drizan Shala While Serbia’s president was explaining to reporters in Prijepolje that he threatens no one, Albania’s answer to his river announcement was already in circulation, posted by the country’s Minister for Europe and Foreign …
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An open letter to the Embassy of Ukraine in Tirana By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) On 9 August the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs published its statement on President Zelenskyy’s visit to Serbia. We write to make certain that nothing in it is read as routine. The Ministry called the visit important and dialogue …
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By Ylli Manjani, former Minister of Justice of Albania Anyone who follows the course of criminal proceedings with care, particularly those before the Special Court against Corruption and Organized Crime (GJKKO), will notice a phenomenon that is becoming ever more frequent: trials drag on to the maximum limits of pretrial detention. In more than …
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What the Verona proceedings hold for Albania is a lesson in procedure, and almost no one in Tirana is reading the procedure. A Legal Desk editorial On 3 July 2025, the chief prosecutor of Verona, Raffaele Tito, presented to the press a preventive seizure his office had obtained against a company of the Çela …
