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The Examiner
Kreshnik Spahiu asked the question no foreign correspondent will. The days since have answered it for him. by Elis Zenelaj (Tirana) The wire went up overnight. The people of Zvërnec walked down to the water on a morning in late May the way they had walked down to it all their lives, and found …
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The boulevard promises a new country and proposes the oldest idea in our politics: that the opponent is not to be answered, but removed. By Ylli Manjani (Tirana) The flamingo revolution, balanced as ever on a single leg, has begun to preach a “New Albania.” Not as a political project, nor an economic one, …
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The novelist Beqë Cufaj, Kosovo’s former ambassador to Germany, looked at the protests in Tirana and saw a country being romanticized onto the streets at the worst possible moment. He was right to be suspicious, and the suspicion leads somewhere his short post only pointed. Ardit Rada (Tirana) A flamingo makes a good photograph. …
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A senior fellow of the Atlantic Council has used the Washington Post, and the authority his title carries into this region, to advance three assertions about the Albanian protests and the project at their centre. Each fails on the public record. Each is aimed in a single political direction. This Desk sets the badge beside …
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The accusations are repeated every day. The proof is still awaited. Until then, the judgment of a prime minister must begin from what he built, not from what his opponents say about him. Albatros Rexhaj There is an Albania that my generation remembers without needing to search for it in archives. It was the …
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Edi Rama answered the Financial Times. A strategist answered Rama. The coverage printed his badge and left out his stake. by Klea Ukaj (Michigan, USA) Edi Rama gave the interview on 23 June, three weeks into the protests. Asked whether he was the “Godfather” the demonstrators accuse him of being, he refused the premise …
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By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) There is a kind of political idea that arrives exactly on schedule, and the schedule is never the country’s. It is the author’s. Elisa Spiropali calls hers New Albania, and the timing tells you almost everything the text tries to obscure. Read on its own, the manifesto she published in …
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Albania’s state condemned the desecration of the Israeli flag within hours. The European Union’s mission in Tirana, and every member-state embassy beside it, has found nothing to say. The omission is not an oversight. It is a disclosure. The Editorial Board When masked protesters pulled the flag of the State of Israel from its …
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Edi Rama said the protest had been entered. His critics called it deflection. Then the man leading the protest said the same thing, and named the groups. By Drizan Shala (Security Affairs Contributor) “There are infiltrated groups among us who drop the disguise and join us. In the days ahead we will bring them …
