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Spajić named no states. His sources named two. What Podgorica reveals by letting the second name stand. By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) On Thursday afternoon, the Prime Minister of Montenegro announced on X that his government holds “serious operational security information” that the coming closure of negotiating chapters with Brussels will be accompanied by coordinated …
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On Wednesday Albania’s judiciary set its own pay. No grievance in the file confers that power, and the file was checked. By Renada Bici, Legal Desk On Wednesday the High Judicial Council seized a competence of parliament. That is the precise description of what happened in the Council’s chamber, and the rest of this …
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By Ylli Manjani, former Minister of Justice of Albania There is a point at which the absurd stops being a mistake. It becomes a system. On Wednesday the High Judicial Council, the KLGJ, the governing body the 2016 constitutional reform created for Albania’s courts, voted nine to zero to raise the reference salary of every …
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A Serbian intelligence operation against Kosovo’s prime minister moved through an Albanian portal and borrowed the name of Albania’s intelligence service. Neither is Kosovo’s problem to solve. Both are Albania’s. By Drizan Shala An intelligence operation is legible in what it borrows. When a service wants a fabrication to travel, it does not send …
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Albania’s restraint is the conduct of a confident European state. It should not be mistaken for consent. Editorial Board On 20 August, in the square at Pustec, a formal standing line assembled for the opening of a Macedonian folklore festival: the Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Hristijan Mickoski, beside him local officials, behind them …
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This weekend Edi Rama gathers his ministers for a retreat in Pogradec, armed with two strategic documents about the gap between power and the citizens. He himself appears in neither. This piece fills that absence, with a simple reminder: his legitimacy was born among Albanians, and only there can it be lost. by Albatros Rexhaj …
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By Ylli Manjani, former Minister of Justice of Albania Translated from the Albanian original, published 14 August 2026. I cannot find a single genuinely successful political narrative from the opposition parties in all the time Edi Rama has governed. I say this not without pain, because for a long time I have wanted to find …
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Russia has spent 148 years choosing Serbia at the expense of Albanians. Its own arithmetic no longer explains why. By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) Last week this publication published a letter to the Ambassador of Ukraine in Tirana. It concerned President Zelensky’s answer at the Belgrade press conference of 8 August, where, asked whether Serbia …
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Serbia’s minister called borders sacrosanct, listed Ukraine, China and Cyprus, then added Albania “of course.” The reassurance is the warning. The Editorial Board On Monday a minister of the Serbian government published a list. Borders, wrote Nemanja Starović, are sacrosanct, “whether we are speaking of Serbia, Ukraine, China, or Cyprus”, and then, in parentheses, …
