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The Examiner
By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) There is a kind of political idea that arrives exactly on schedule, and the schedule is never the country’s. It is the author’s. Elisa Spiropali calls hers New Albania, and the timing tells you almost everything the text tries to obscure. Read on its own, the manifesto she published in …
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Albania’s state condemned the desecration of the Israeli flag within hours. The European Union’s mission in Tirana, and every member-state embassy beside it, has found nothing to say. The omission is not an oversight. It is a disclosure. The Editorial Board When masked protesters pulled the flag of the State of Israel from its …
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Edi Rama said the protest had been entered. His critics called it deflection. Then the man leading the protest said the same thing, and named the groups. By Drizan Shala (Security Affairs Contributor) “There are infiltrated groups among us who drop the disguise and join us. In the days ahead we will bring them …
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By Ylli Manjani, former Minister of Justice of Albania The protest wave that its authors have christened the “Flamingo” revolution has bruised Albania’s prime minister. It has not produced the one thing that could remove him. As things stand today, even after the noisy eruption of what can be called, without hesitation, the Flamingo …
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Jorida Tabaku speaks fluently to Europe and forcefully against the government. The one subject on which she stays quiet is her own party. At Zvërnec, that silence stopped being invisible. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) When the protests over Zvërnec turned, as they have, against not only the government but the way the opposition itself …
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Europe guards its protected shorelines with two different instruments. A member state that builds inside a protected zone meets the slow apparatus of the courts. A candidate that does the same meets the European Parliament, a public verdict, and its membership held as collateral. The coasts are equally protected. The difference is which country can …
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Tom Rogan’s column has no evidence for its central charge, so it reaches for a stereotype instead. The question worth asking is not what he wrote, but why he holds Albania to a standard he would apply to no one else. Albatros Rexhaj There is no obligation to admire what Jared Kushner and Ivanka …
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Ardit Rada Begin with the goats. On the eighteenth night of protest in Tirana, a herd of them stood penned behind a portable fence on the boulevard in front of the prime minister’s office, while their keepers held up signs about the coast and the rivers and the mountains. Nearby, cardboard flamingos paraded. A …
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Edi Rama went to Berlin and made a serious, sincere offer. Albania has done the work, and it means the choice. The trouble was the table he made it to. Berlin treats membership as a favour it can defer without end, and a leader as capable as Rama should stop mistaking what Berlin is willing …
