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Belgrade named the Albanians, then objected when Albania answered. The record requires correcting. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) On Monday, Serbia’s foreign minister Marko Đurić published a lengthy statement in English, hashtags included, addressed to his Albanian counterpart, concerning a river that rises in Montenegro and sustains Kosovo. Albania’s stated concern over the announced diversion …
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Albania answered the river announcement with Serbia’s own treaty file. The file says more than the statement does. By Drizan Shala While Serbia’s president was explaining to reporters in Prijepolje that he threatens no one, Albania’s answer to his river announcement was already in circulation, posted by the country’s Minister for Europe and Foreign …
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An open letter to the Embassy of Ukraine in Tirana By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) On 9 August the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs published its statement on President Zelenskyy’s visit to Serbia. We write to make certain that nothing in it is read as routine. The Ministry called the visit important and dialogue …
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By Ylli Manjani, former Minister of Justice of Albania Anyone who follows the course of criminal proceedings with care, particularly those before the Special Court against Corruption and Organized Crime (GJKKO), will notice a phenomenon that is becoming ever more frequent: trials drag on to the maximum limits of pretrial detention. In more than …
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What the Verona proceedings hold for Albania is a lesson in procedure, and almost no one in Tirana is reading the procedure. A Legal Desk editorial On 3 July 2025, the chief prosecutor of Verona, Raffaele Tito, presented to the press a preventive seizure his office had obtained against a company of the Çela …
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by Mero Baze (Tirana) After 25 months in a cell, the Special Anti-Corruption Court ordered the immediate release of Ilir Beqaj in the courtroom itself, because the deadlines for pre-trial detention had expired. The campaign of demonisation against the former health minister, which followed his indictment over the sterilisation concession and then his arrest …
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SPAK’s proposal is not dangerous because its intentions are suspect. It is dangerous because democratic institutions are designed to restrain even the most virtuous among them. Drizan Shala Should we be worried by what Klodian Braho proposed? That is the question under every conversation about SPAK this month, asked in kitchens and in chancelleries …
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The lightest charge in the procurement chapter is carrying the heaviest file in SPAK’s building. A Legal Desk reading of the Balluku case. By Renada Bici, Legal Desk Belinda Balluku was summoned to the Special Prosecution for ten on Friday morning and arrived at two in the afternoon, with her lawyer, past the small …
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SPAK’s chief says the law already allows his investigators to make arrests. He is right. That is not the question. Renada Bici, Legal Desk When officers of the National Bureau of Investigation arrested Adi Çobo Bazholi in Durrës earlier this month, the operation was noted less for the man in handcuffs than for who …
