Thursday 02:17
The Examiner
Asked to call the Nartë project an accession problem, the Enlargement Commissioner declined. Read against the Commission’s own statement a week earlier, her refusal is the news. by Ardit Rada (Tirana) Marta Kos was handed an easy invitation to escalate, and she turned it down. Asked at the Commission’s briefing this week whether the …
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By Edi Rama Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania SAZAN ISLAND is state property, which has never been intended, nor even sought, for sale. This state land would be made available, so as to turn it into a top-tier tourist destination, through the state’s participation in the investment itself. On the basis of …
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In one week, on one tour, a Greek foreign minister used the same phrase to bless Belgrade, pressure Tirana, and deny Pristina. The phrase was “international law.” The standard applied beneath it was not the same. Ngadhnjim Brovina George Gerapetritis arrived in Belgrade on 12 June with a refrain. Greek foreign policy, he said …
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Albania has made the disclosure of secret investigative acts, by those entrusted to hold them, a felony under its own Criminal Code. The recurrence of such disclosures, across cases and across the press, raises a question that belongs to SPAK, to the Special Court, and to the partners who built and fund them. An institution …
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One question in the Zvërnec file can be answered now, without waiting for any verdict and without presuming any guilt: what the state was lawfully able to do about the transfer of the land. The answer is narrow, and it is the opposite of the assumption on which a national campaign has been built. by …
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Albania is preparing to repeal and replace its Law on Strategic Investments, a step Brussels has asked for over four years of progress reports. As a matter of law, the new statute will speak to the future. It will not, on its own, reach back into what the old one already granted. by Renada Bici …
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Twelve days of protest in Tirana have asked every question except the one that decides everything. Tirana Examiner Begin with what the protest has earned, because it has earned a great deal. For twelve consecutive evenings, thousands of citizens have gathered at six o’clock in Skënderbej Square and marched down the boulevard to the Prime …
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A leaderless movement built itself around an empty phrase. The Prime Minister has begun filling it. by Alban Bici (publisher of Tirana Examiner) The most important words in Tirana this June are also the emptiest. “Shqipëri e Re” has echoed down the boulevard every evening for nearly two weeks now, from Skanderbeg Square to …
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Iran’s foreign ministry answered Tirana with a produced video and a festival song from 1980. Read closely, the reply is not diplomacy. It is the operation already documented on Albanian networks, surfacing into an official channel, and this time it carries a signature. Drizan Shala Start with the video, because this time the artifact …
