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Albania’s prosecutors are right to examine property issues at Zvërnec. But the antisemitic incitement carried into the protest raises a separate question of public security, one SPAK cannot pretend it did not see. by Renada Bici (Tirana Examiner Legal Desk) Two investigations could have been opened in Tirana this week. One has been. The …
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A Legal Desk reading of why the Prime Minister’s two-part distinction tracks the proportionality the Criminal Procedure Code already requires. by Renada Bici (Tirana Examiner Legal Desk) There are two questions buried inside the Zvërnec file, and the public argument has been collapsing them into one. The first is whether the Special Prosecution may …
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The four billion euro South Adriatic project is being fought as a catastrophe. The European record, and the names on the drawing boards, suggest something closer to the opposite: a test Albania has set for itself, and one it can pass only on terms it must now make public. by Besart Ruka (Tirana) There …
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by Renada Bici (The Legal Desk) On Monday, SPAK told BIRN that it had opened an investigation connected to the works at Zvërnec. In the same answer, through its coordinator for the right to information, it added that in the investigative phase no further detail could be released. The two statements should be read …
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A follow-up to our reporting on Saturday’s clash. A belief has settled into the public conversation that the government gave away public land for this resort. It did not. The parcels were private, and the developer bought them. TIRANA EXAMINER | Legal Desk Since Saturday’s confrontation at Portonovë, a single idea has hardened in …
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A response to Carlo Bollino on SPAK, procedure, and the missing variable Albatros Rexhaj Carlo Bollino’s recent column reaches for Guantanamo to describe what is happening inside Albanian justice. The reach is rhetorically powerful and structurally wrong, and the wrongness matters because it obscures the argument Albania actually needs to have. Guantanamo was extrajudicial …
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The Tirana Examiner Legal Desk The 25 May decision of the Constitutional Court, taken by a five-to-three majority of the eight sitting judges, is the most consequential ruling on pretrial detention of an elected official in the post-justice-reform period. It is also the second time within a single calendar year that the Constitutional Court has …
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The opposition has built its post-IBAR communication on a category error. The error has political utility. It does not survive contact with the document. by Ardit Rada (Tirana) The Interim European Union Common Position on Cluster 1, adopted by COREPER on 21 May and to be received at the Eighth Intergovernmental Conference on 26 …
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Germany has replaced the veto with a methodology in which Albania’s progress is acknowledged, praised, and indefinitely postponed, applying the harshest conditionality in the Western Balkans to the region’s most aligned state. by Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) Prime Minister, do not go to Brussels in the register you have chosen. The document waiting for you …
