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The Examiner
The Pandora Papers now name who paid for the DPA’s 2017 lobbying in Washington. Eight years on, the same operation runs through the same operator. by Klea Ukaj (Michigan) In May 2018, weeks after the United States Treasury imposed sanctions on Oleg Deripaska and EN+ for what it called the Kremlin’s global malign activities …
Daily Briefing
The moment Berisha speaks without filter is the moment his own apparatus intervenes. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) “I emphasized this moment, because if we, in a peaceful armed insurrection, do not show this regime its place, do not bring it down, then not only the port, but Albania itself will be in the greatest …
Hard Talks
Interview with Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Ferit Hoxha, on the program “World News” on Klan television 24 April 2026 Linda Karadaku: The main issue under discussion with Greece is the delimitation of the maritime border. Prime Minister Rama said the matter is in Strasbourg. Is there any movement, or has it simply …
The Examiner
One Ukrainian aggregator promoted a headline verb into a political alignment. Albanian media then laundered the label back across the border. By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) On Thursday evening, POLITICO Europe published its interview with Prime Minister Edi Rama. The headline framed his remarks on Russia as a confrontation with Brussels. Within hours, a Ukrainian-language …
The Examiner
POLITICO Europe rewrote Rama’s Delphi interview with a single verb. The verb revealed more about Brussels newsrooms than about Tirana. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) On Thursday evening, POLITICO Europe published Nicholas Vinocur’s interview with Prime Minister Edi Rama from the Delphi Economic Forum. The headline read: “‘We need to talk to everyone’: Albanian PM …
The Examiner
the Editorial Board On Monday morning in a Westminster Magistrates’ Court, a thirty-six-year-old Albanian with a documented record of theft, false German driving licences, and admitted judicial bribery told a British judge that he could not be returned to Albania because the criminal network that once tried to kill him had carried out contract …
Daily Briefing
Tirana Examiner Briefing The Special Parliamentary Commission for Administrative-Territorial Reform took its consultation circuit to Gjirokastër on 24 April. Co-chairs Arbjan Mazniku (PS) and Luçiano Boçi (PD) led the session. The Greek minority’s senior parliamentary voice, Vangjel Dule, head of the Unity for Human Rights Party (PBDNJ) and a Gjirokastër native, used the home …
Daily Briefing
The Newsroom The plenary that convened in Tirana on Thursday ran for the better part of a day before it produced its defining image: a Democratic Party deputy gripping the rostrum past the point of return, a parliamentary speaker counting out disciplinary measures, and an opposition walking out of the chamber as two substantive pieces …
Daily Briefing
Newsroom | Tirana Examiner The interviewer was Alexis Papahelas, editor-in-chief of Kathimerini, Greece’s newspaper of record and the publication most reliably read across European chancelleries for signal from Athens. The venue was the Delphi Economic Forum, the annual gathering where Greek political, diplomatic, and business figures meet European and American counterparts in settings designed …
Hard Talks
He built a publication in a language he does not fully speak, to cover a country the world largely ignores, with a team of volunteers working from laptops and smartphones. The idea came to him not in a Tirana office but in a hotel room in a distant country, reading a foreign magazine, thinking about …
Hard Talks
Albania’s new Foreign Minister spent his career inside the institutions the country now seeks to join. But as EU enlargement enters its most demanding phase, a parliamentary vote shields his former deputy prime minister from arrest, his prime minister co-signs a European initiative with a man who declared war on Albania days later, and Brussels …
Hard Talks
Everest employs around 700 workers and is expanding into the United States. As Albania moves toward EU integration, we ask CEO Sokol Çupi whether industrial growth is reinforcing institutions — or quietly outpacing them. by Elis Zenelaj (Tirana) Introduction Everest Sh.p.k. began in 1997. Today it operates one of Albania’s largest aluminum production platforms, …
US - International
Kyiv described Moscow’s foundational claim. Belgrade runs the same one toward Pristina. Albatros Rexhaj At the Four Freedoms Awards ceremony, Volodymyr Zelensky described what he called the core of Russia’s war against Ukraine. “At the core of Russia’s war against Ukraine is a false claim, that Ukraine does not exist, that it is allegedly …
US - International
The convergence of historical revisionism, Serbian–Israeli arms ties, and diplomatic positioning is testing the credibility of genocide recognition in international politics. Ngadhnjim Brovina (Prishtina) The publication this week of Milorad Dodik’s meditation on Jasenovac, in which the former president of Republika Srpska and current secessionist impresario invoked the “Auschwitz of the Balkans” and placed …
US - International
Twenty-five years after systematic sexual violence during the Kosovo war, the absence of justice reflects a sustained political arrangement, not a failure of evidence. Klea Ukaj (Michigan, USA) When Kosovo’s Acting President Albulena Haxhiu announced twelve new indictments for wartime sexual violence at the Heroines memorial in Pristina, she was describing real institutional progress. Kosovo’s …
