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by Mero Baze (Tirana) After 25 months in a cell, the Special Anti-Corruption Court ordered the immediate release of Ilir Beqaj in the courtroom itself, because the deadlines for pre-trial detention had expired. The campaign of demonisation against the former health minister, which followed his indictment over the sterilisation concession and then his arrest …
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SPAK’s proposal is not dangerous because its intentions are suspect. It is dangerous because democratic institutions are designed to restrain even the most virtuous among them. Drizan Shala Should we be worried by what Klodian Braho proposed? That is the question under every conversation about SPAK this month, asked in kitchens and in chancelleries …
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The lightest charge in the procurement chapter is carrying the heaviest file in SPAK’s building. A Legal Desk reading of the Balluku case. By Renada Bici, Legal Desk Belinda Balluku was summoned to the Special Prosecution for ten on Friday morning and arrived at two in the afternoon, with her lawyer, past the small …
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SPAK’s chief says the law already allows his investigators to make arrests. He is right. That is not the question. Renada Bici, Legal Desk When officers of the National Bureau of Investigation arrested Adi Çobo Bazholi in Durrës earlier this month, the operation was noted less for the man in handcuffs than for who …
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Serbia announced a consulate exchange fourteen weeks after the talks and two months into Albania’s streets. The timing was not careless. The timing was the policy. Tirana Examiner On Thursday morning, Serbia’s foreign minister Marko Djurić went on Radio Belgrade and announced a result. He had held very good talks, he said, with Albania’s …
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Ten organizations signed a declaration lecturing Albania’s elected institutions on evidence, transparency and independence. The declaration fails all three tests. Its authors fail them first. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) On 30 July a declaration arrived in Tirana under the title “Albania: Cumulative pressure on media freedom and civic space demands urgent action.” It was …
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A new database announces that the Albanian state has given away 2.1 million square meters of its coast. The official acts say otherwise. The first number will travel farther than the correction. By Bekim Besimi (Venice) Somewhere this month, in London or Frankfurt or Vienna, an analyst is assembling a country memorandum on Albania. …
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European capitals court Belgrade on the standing assumption that the Albanians are the region’s compliant party, endlessly patient, endlessly available, priced at zero. Ferit Hoxha’s statement of 27 July is notice that the assumption has expired. by Ardit Rada (Tirana) The most consequential sentence Albania’s foreign minister delivered on 27 July was four words …
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by Renada Bici (Legal Examiner Desk) On the ninth of December 2024, in the Treaty Room of the United States Department of State, Secretary Antony Blinken conferred his government’s Anti-Corruption Champions Award on Altin Dumani, then Chief Special Prosecutor of Albania. The citation praised leadership exercised with integrity, professionalism, and courage. The Embassy in …
