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Albatros Rexhaj When I asked Edi Rama why Klodiana Spahiu, the answer came in three words: humble, professional, loyal. The more I think about that answer, the less those three qualities look accidental. They read like a description of the minister Rama is looking for at this stage of his government. And healthcare is …
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Serbia’s ruling party set out its position on Mladić the day after he died. Ten days later the president of France received the man at the centre of its system. Drizan Shala (Security Desk) On 28 August, the morning after Ratko Mladić died in the Hague detention unit, Miloš Vučević posted a statement on …
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The Constitution did not create a power above the powers. A decade of guardianship around the justice reform helped produce one, and on Thursday 271 judges invited its foreign guardians to enforce the result. By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) The General Meeting of Judges met at ten on Thursday morning and by early afternoon had …
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When a judge earns ten times what a police chief earns and twelve times what a teacher earns, the argument has stopped being about judicial independence. It is about a caste the state itself is minting. By Ylli Manjani (Tirana) Editor’s note:This piece follows the author’s 27 August essay on the “independent republics” of the …
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Read religion, language and chancery practice as nationality, and Albanians disappear from the past by category rather than by fact. by Maringlen Cara (Tirana) In 1623 Pjetër Mazreku sent Rome a report from Prizren. The city, he wrote, contained twelve thousand Turks. Then he added three words that should have prevented three centuries of …
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When a security regulation bars a defendant’s chosen lawyer from the courtroom, the court has stopped being one. By Ylli Manjani Editor’s note: The author is a former Minister of Justice. The piece answers an incident of 4 September, when defence lawyer Dorian Matlija was kept out of a courtroom at Albania’s Special Court against …
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Editorial Board On 22 March, in the Hard Talks chair, our founder was asked whether the thought that produced this publication had been worth acting on. Alban Bici declined to answer. Ask me in five years, he said. Today we are six months old. Five years is far away. Six months is enough for …
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Albanian law lets a prosecutor authorize up to fifteen days of covert photography, filming or video surveillance in public, and location tracking, without prior judicial authorization or validation. Continuation beyond that requires a court. The initial decision belongs to the prosecutor. Renada Bici, Legal Desk The document is one page. It is dated 10 February …
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The European Democrats posted an accusation in a picture and a question in the caption. Edi Rama was right to answer the picture. By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) At three minutes past one on Thursday afternoon, an account called @democrats_eu posted a picture. Edi Rama’s face, a phone in his hand stamped BLOCKED, a crowd …
