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Serbia announced a consulate exchange fourteen weeks after the talks and two months into Albania’s streets. The timing was not careless. The timing was the policy. Tirana Examiner On Thursday morning, Serbia’s foreign minister Marko Djurić went on Radio Belgrade and announced a result. He had held very good talks, he said, with Albania’s …
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Ten organizations signed a declaration lecturing Albania’s elected institutions on evidence, transparency and independence. The declaration fails all three tests. Its authors fail them first. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) On 30 July a declaration arrived in Tirana under the title “Albania: Cumulative pressure on media freedom and civic space demands urgent action.” It was …
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A new database announces that the Albanian state has given away 2.1 million square meters of its coast. The official acts say otherwise. The first number will travel farther than the correction. By Bekim Besimi (Venice) Somewhere this month, in London or Frankfurt or Vienna, an analyst is assembling a country memorandum on Albania. …
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European capitals court Belgrade on the standing assumption that the Albanians are the region’s compliant party, endlessly patient, endlessly available, priced at zero. Ferit Hoxha’s statement of 27 July is notice that the assumption has expired. by Ardit Rada (Tirana) The most consequential sentence Albania’s foreign minister delivered on 27 July was four words …
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by Renada Bici (Legal Examiner Desk) On the ninth of December 2024, in the Treaty Room of the United States Department of State, Secretary Antony Blinken conferred his government’s Anti-Corruption Champions Award on Altin Dumani, then Chief Special Prosecutor of Albania. The citation praised leadership exercised with integrity, professionalism, and courage. The Embassy in …
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A week in Tirana in which every institution was asked, one way or another, whose voice is whose. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) Sometime in the past week, and nobody outside a small circle knows exactly when, two lines quietly vanished from Gjergj Erebara’s Facebook profile. Journalist at BIRN Albania. Journalist at Reporter.al. They had …
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By Prof. Assoc. Dr. Bledar Kurti In modern democracies there exists a great paradox. Today we believe that politicians shape public opinion, when in truth it is increasingly the algorithms that shape both politicians and crowds. If the road to power once ran through parties, television stations and institutions, today it runs through a …
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The targets were individual businesses. The exposure was national. The July review-bombing campaign revealed how digital trust has become critical infrastructure for Albania’s tourism economy. By Bekim Besimi (Venice) When states or movements attack infrastructure, the images are familiar: a pipeline, a substation, a server farm. In the second week of July, at the …
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What a former foreign minister’s photograph in Beijing says, and what it carefully does not By Ardit Rada | Tirana Examiner There is a photograph from Beijing, posted on July 3, in which Ditmir Bushati is smiling. Beside him stands Yan Xuetong, honorary dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University and …
