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A North Macedonian deputy prime minister accuses Albania of holding a political prisoner. The claim says more about Skopje’s past than Tirana’s present. By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) On Friday, in the parliament of North Macedonia, a deputy prime minister stood before his colleagues and declared that Albania is holding a political prisoner. Alexandar Nikolovski, …
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Danijel Apostolovic, Serbia’s EU accession chief, says member state ambassadors welcomed the Rama–Vučić proposal. Marta Kos spoke too soon. by Ardit Rada (Tirana) When Marta Kos responded to the joint Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung proposal by Edi Rama and Aleksandar Vučić, she was direct. She was not sure, she said, whether the two leaders understood …
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How Russian and Serbian state media built Albania into a threat narrative it has never thought to answer. By Hajdi Xhixha Albania does not feature prominently in its own information warfare threat assessment. It probably should. The Sputnik Serbia article published on March 24, ostensibly covering Kosovo Security Force participation in the NATO logistics …
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By The Fact Check Desk (Tirana) Luçiano Boçi appeared on News 24 on March 26 and said, with considerable confidence, that Albanian institutions have collapsed, that the opposition bears no blame for political violence, and that Germany’s Embassy effectively endorsed the Democratic Party’s conduct. The record says otherwise on all three counts. What follows …
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FACT-CHECK Sonila Meço, “The Relativisation Technique: A Reading of Rama’s Le Point Interview” Tirana Examiner, March 26, 2026 Why this fact-check exists Albanian political commentary has a structural problem that extends well beyond this piece. Opinion writing routinely blends verified fact with contested characterisation, selective quotation, and rhetorical inflation, then circulates as a unified whole. …
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By Sonila Meço The following commentary by Sonila Meço, journalist and media personality, was published on her Facebook page following the release of Prime Minister Rama’s interview with Le Point, which the Tirana Examiner translated and published in full. We present it here as a perspective worth engaging with. The views expressed are the author’s …
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Albania’s constitution says your home is inviolable. The Criminal Procedure Code says otherwise. The Constitutional Court has been asked to resolve the contradiction. It has chosen, repeatedly, not to answer. By Ylli Manjani (Tirana) Radovan Çela took his case to Strasbourg. He had exhausted what he could in Albania, which was not much, because …
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Albania’s judicial associations invoked Italy’s referendum to advance a domestic argument they could not state openly. And in doing so crossed the boundary they exist to defend. by Renada Bici (Tirana Examiner Legal Desk) A joint statement issued today by the National Association of Judges and the Association of Prosecutors of the Republic of …
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Ervin Salianji spent ten months in prison while Albania voted. Now he wants to run against Sali Berisha for the leadership of the Democratic Party. Berisha has a single answer, repeated until it sounds like fact: the man excluded himself. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) There is a word Sali Berisha reached for three times …
