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The EU Ambassador may speak for the acquis. He may not settle the facts of a live Albanian dispute. Partnership requires Brussels to address Tirana, not pronounce over it. by Ardit Rada (Tirana) On 24 May, the EU Delegation in Tirana published a video. In it, Ambassador Silvio Gonzato stands in a park, wearing …
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Brussels cannot pronounce a verdict on a project that does not yet exist, and it has no standing to ask Albania to choose between Europe and its own coast. by Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) “Albania should refrain from actions that could undermine the fulfillment of the closing benchmarks,” a European Commission spokesperson told POLITICO, adding …
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The footage was authentic. The captions were written elsewhere. Inside a week a domestic grievance was re-labelled into a hostile information operation, led from Tehran and amplified by every actor that profits from a weaker Albania. Drizan Shala Start with the artifact, because the artifact gives up the method. A video circulates: a building …
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by Givi Targamadze Nineteen years ago, the Russian FSB — operating through a Russian oligarch of Georgian origin who had taken cover in the guise of political opposition — was waging a well-organized, intense assault on Georgian statehood and on our Euro-Atlantic choice, an assault whose culmination was a continuous rally. Its driving force …
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By Ardit Rada (Tirana) “It is no accident that the Zvërnec issue has drawn attention even at the highest levels of the European Union. This shows that the problem is not simply an isolated project, but a model of governance that has raised serious questions about the rule of law, the protection of property, …
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The disinformation flooding Albanian feeds is not an argument about a resort. It is the ground a hostile state prepares before someone moves, and a former Secret Service agent has read this file before. Robert Ferguson In November 2024, the Justice Department unsealed something that should have stopped the country cold. An operative of …
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A foreign libel was fitted to Sazan at the moment Albania could least afford it. That timing was the design. Drizan Shala The lagoon at Narta was protected before any American thought the coast was worth a resort. The flamingos are real, the loggerheads are real, the Cold War bunkers and the unexploded ordnance …
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by Christopher S. Hyland Every nation arrives, at intervals, at a threshold where it must choose between two definitions of itself – one open and one closed, one confident and one fearful – and Albania, a small country I have supported for the better part of my life, stands at such a threshold this week. …
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by Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) Belind Këlliçi went on A Show on Syri TV and did something specific. He placed the Zvërnec affair at the door of the Prime Minister, charged the government with favouring private interests against the public good, and demanded full transparency on ownership, permits and procedure. He folded the whole case into …
