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A foreign libel was fitted to Sazan at the moment Albania could least afford it. That timing was the design. Drizan Shala The lagoon at Narta was protected before any American thought the coast was worth a resort. The flamingos are real, the loggerheads are real, the Cold War bunkers and the unexploded ordnance …
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by Christopher S. Hyland Every nation arrives, at intervals, at a threshold where it must choose between two definitions of itself – one open and one closed, one confident and one fearful – and Albania, a small country I have supported for the better part of my life, stands at such a threshold this week. …
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by Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) Belind Këlliçi went on A Show on Syri TV and did something specific. He placed the Zvërnec affair at the door of the Prime Minister, charged the government with favouring private interests against the public good, and demanded full transparency on ownership, permits and procedure. He folded the whole case into …
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Albania’s prosecutors are right to examine property issues at Zvërnec. But the antisemitic incitement carried into the protest raises a separate question of public security, one SPAK cannot pretend it did not see. by Renada Bici (Tirana Examiner Legal Desk) Two investigations could have been opened in Tirana this week. One has been. The …
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A Legal Desk reading of why the Prime Minister’s two-part distinction tracks the proportionality the Criminal Procedure Code already requires. by Renada Bici (Tirana Examiner Legal Desk) There are two questions buried inside the Zvërnec file, and the public argument has been collapsing them into one. The first is whether the Special Prosecution may …
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The four billion euro South Adriatic project is being fought as a catastrophe. The European record, and the names on the drawing boards, suggest something closer to the opposite: a test Albania has set for itself, and one it can pass only on terms it must now make public. by Besart Ruka (Tirana) There …
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by Renada Bici (The Legal Desk) On Monday, SPAK told BIRN that it had opened an investigation connected to the works at Zvërnec. In the same answer, through its coordinator for the right to information, it added that in the investigative phase no further detail could be released. The two statements should be read …
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A follow-up to our reporting on Saturday’s clash. A belief has settled into the public conversation that the government gave away public land for this resort. It did not. The parcels were private, and the developer bought them. TIRANA EXAMINER | Legal Desk Since Saturday’s confrontation at Portonovë, a single idea has hardened in …
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A response to Carlo Bollino on SPAK, procedure, and the missing variable Albatros Rexhaj Carlo Bollino’s recent column reaches for Guantanamo to describe what is happening inside Albanian justice. The reach is rhetorically powerful and structurally wrong, and the wrongness matters because it obscures the argument Albania actually needs to have. Guantanamo was extrajudicial …
