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Klodiana Spahiu is the first Rama health minister who is a physician and has run a hospital outside Tirana. That is the combination the ministry has been missing. Tirana Examiner Asked on Thursday what recommended his choice for the Health Ministry, Prime Minister Edi Rama gave Tirana Examiner three words: “Humble, loyal, professional.” We …
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A mayor in pretrial detention keeps the mandate the voters gave him. The signature is another matter, and the law that governs it does not recognize a municipality run from a cell. Erion Veliaj, mayor of Tirana, has been held in pretrial detention at the Durrës facility for nineteen months in a SPAK case. The …
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Washington’s Balkan calendar prices uncertainty. Albania has none to sell. by Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) Go to state.gov and search the spokesperson’s releases for the three Western Balkan foreign ministers who matter to this story. For Skopje you will find a readout dated 29 May 2025: Secretary Rubio met North Macedonia’s Timčo Mucunski, discussed trade …
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The Flamingo protests earned a reputation. What sat at Rama’s back gate on Tuesday is spending it. by Drizan Shala (Security Desk) For most of the summer the world’s coverage of Tirana said the same thing. A protest that was peaceful, persistent, young, and not for sale. Channel 4 came for it. In July …
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Tirana gave Germany the sharpest sentence of the day. Berlin will file it where it files everything from Albania. Tirana Examiner Editorial Board Edi Rama posted on Tuesday evening, in English only, that a drone carrying explosives into Leipzig/Halle “is not a grey zone.” He called it “a Russian act of aggression against Germany …
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The prime minister is entitled to a vision. His ministers are paid to execute it, not to review it. By Ylli Manjani (Tirana) Political platforms baptized “Besa” or “Pasqyra” are, beyond doubt, the newest form of political marketing Edi Rama has chosen for communicating with the public. One may agree or disagree with their …
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A candidate for EU membership has promised state honours to a genocide convict. Diplomats who file that under Bosnia should read what Tirana said in July. by Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) On 28 August, in the square in Pale, people queued to kiss a framed photograph of Ratko Mladić propped against a wall beneath the …
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Rama offered them a besa. Albania should give them standing in a court of law. by Keler Marku (Washington, DC) In February 2021, seventy-three Albanian civil-society organizations wrote to the speaker of Parliament and six other parliamentary leaders with a concrete request: sponsor their draft law “On Collective Actions.” Their four-page request came with …
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Behgjet Pacolli gives interviews. The ministry he is suing says almost nothing. In arbitration, only one of those becomes evidence. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) On 5 August a letter from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy reached MABCO Constructions SA. It informed the company that the Albanian state had opened the procedure to terminate …
