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When a security regulation bars a defendant’s chosen lawyer from the courtroom, the court has stopped being one. By Ylli Manjani Editor’s note: The author is a former Minister of Justice. The piece answers an incident of 4 September, when defence lawyer Dorian Matlija was kept out of a courtroom at Albania’s Special Court against …
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Editorial Board On 22 March, in the Hard Talks chair, our founder was asked whether the thought that produced this publication had been worth acting on. Alban Bici declined to answer. Ask me in five years, he said. Today we are six months old. Five years is far away. Six months is enough for …
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Albanian law lets a prosecutor authorize up to fifteen days of covert photography, filming or video surveillance in public, and location tracking, without prior judicial authorization or validation. Continuation beyond that requires a court. The initial decision belongs to the prosecutor. Renada Bici, Legal Desk The document is one page. It is dated 10 February …
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The European Democrats posted an accusation in a picture and a question in the caption. Edi Rama was right to answer the picture. By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) At three minutes past one on Thursday afternoon, an account called @democrats_eu posted a picture. Edi Rama’s face, a phone in his hand stamped BLOCKED, a crowd …
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Klodiana Spahiu is the first Rama health minister who is a physician and has run a hospital outside Tirana. That is the combination the ministry has been missing. Tirana Examiner Asked on Thursday what recommended his choice for the Health Ministry, Prime Minister Edi Rama gave Tirana Examiner three words: “Humble, loyal, professional.” We …
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A mayor in pretrial detention keeps the mandate the voters gave him. The signature is another matter, and the law that governs it does not recognize a municipality run from a cell. Erion Veliaj, mayor of Tirana, has been held in pretrial detention at the Durrës facility for nineteen months in a SPAK case. The …
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Washington’s Balkan calendar prices uncertainty. Albania has none to sell. by Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) Go to state.gov and search the spokesperson’s releases for the three Western Balkan foreign ministers who matter to this story. For Skopje you will find a readout dated 29 May 2025: Secretary Rubio met North Macedonia’s Timčo Mucunski, discussed trade …
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The Flamingo protests earned a reputation. What sat at Rama’s back gate on Tuesday is spending it. by Drizan Shala (Security Desk) For most of the summer the world’s coverage of Tirana said the same thing. A protest that was peaceful, persistent, young, and not for sale. Channel 4 came for it. In July …
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Tirana gave Germany the sharpest sentence of the day. Berlin will file it where it files everything from Albania. Tirana Examiner Editorial Board Edi Rama posted on Tuesday evening, in English only, that a drone carrying explosives into Leipzig/Halle “is not a grey zone.” He called it “a Russian act of aggression against Germany …
