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The Examiner
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 …
Daily Briefing
In the grey hour after the boulevard emptied, Prime Minister Edi Rama published an open letter addressed not to the organizers of the so called Flamingo Revolution but to a single figure left behind by it. The premise is a piece of rhetorical engineering. Rama concedes the protester’s grievance as legitimate, the unpaid overtime, the …
The Examiner
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 …
The Examiner
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 …
The Examiner
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 …
The Examiner
By Ylli Manjani, former Minister of Justice of Albania The protest wave that its authors have christened the “Flamingo” revolution has bruised Albania’s prime minister. It has not produced the one thing that could remove him. As things stand today, even after the noisy eruption of what can be called, without hesitation, the Flamingo …
Daily Briefing
The Foreign Ministry and the Albanian Jewish Community both condemned the act on Sunday. It did not arrive from nowhere. Masked protesters removed and desecrated the flag at the Embassy of the State of Israel in Tirana on Saturday night, during the latest demonstration in the cycle that began over the Zvërnec coastal development. …
Daily Briefing
Prime Minister Edi Rama used the twenty-fourth episode of the sixth season of his weekly podcast, Flasim, to open the weekly notes with a sustained literary and philosophical reflection on the nature of idealism, illusion, and manipulation in the digital age, framed through Stendhal’s character Fabrice del Dongo at the Battle of Waterloo, and directed …
Daily Briefing
The Newsroom At the meeting of the Socialist Party (PS) parliamentary group, Prime Minister Edi Rama again commented on the protests over Zvërnec, saying that the world did not wake up because of Narta, but because of Kushner’s name and the shadow of his father-in-law, Donald Trump. Rama says that Zvërnec became part of …
Hard Talks
On 3 June, CNN’s Isa Soares devoted a segment to the protests in Tirana against a proposed luxury development on Albania’s southern coast, the Zvërnec island project in the Narta lagoon near Vlorë, linked to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. She then put the matter to Prime Minister Edi Rama directly. Over several minutes, Rama …
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 …
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 …
US - International
Kosovo’s struggle centered on recognition. Montenegro’s centers on definition. Ngadhnjim Brovina On 12 May, the assembly of a municipality on the edge of Podgorica voted to annul the Republic of Kosovo. The municipality was Zeta. The vote was advanced by Milan Knežević’s Democratic People’s Party and carried by the eighteen councilors of the “For …
US - International
by Mark Gojcaj | Tirana Examiner, US – International On Thursday morning, Sali Berisha walked into the Albanian parliament and delivered four words from the rostrum: “I came, it is done.” Democratic Party deputies applauded. Outside the chamber, he told journalists that official communication had confirmed the lifting of his American travel ban. Asked …
US - International
By Klea Ukaj | Tirana Examiner, Washington Desk On Monday, Senator Bernie Sanders informed his nine million followers that “over a hundred thousand people” were in the streets of “tiny Albania” protesting an “environmentally disastrous luxury resort” built by Jared Kushner and his Qatari partners. This, he declared, “is what global oligarchy looks like.” …
