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Albania Ruling Party Postpones Controversial Lustration Legislation

After an EU intervention, ruling Socialist Party MPs postponed the approval of legal changes that critics claim are intended to target former President Ilir Meta for alleged collaboration with the Communist-era intelligence service. Original post Here

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Albania Prosecutors Seek Former Deputy PM Arben Ahmetaj’s Arrest

Prosecutors want parliamentary immunity lifted so that former Deputy PM Arben Ahmetaj can be arrested on charges of corruption and money laundering. Original post Here

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Op/Ed: The sacrifice of a spotless shirt

By DEMUSH SHASHA While 20 seconds of Ambassador Hill’s tweets shatter 20 years of illusion in Kosovo, they are also useful starting points for reassessing our way forward. Our way forward is the quagmire, where Kurti’s political clean shirt must be submerged to pull us out of the deluge in …

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Socialist MP resigns following vicious beating perpetrated by MP’s family members, MoI sacked

TIRANA, July 8 – A controversial ruling party MP in Albania has resigned after his son and two brothers were detained by police in connection with the vicious beating of two men near their home town of Fushë Krujë. The beating, filmed and distributed on social media by the assailants, …

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MP of the Socialist Party, Rrahman Rraja hands over his mandate

SP Deputy Rrahman Rraja hands over his mandate. The decision comes after the equal violence that the Rraja family exerted against two cousins ​​in Borizana, part of which was the brother and son of the SP deputy. “I have no words to express the embarrassment towards all those who have …

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Korça university will not be closed

The Minister of Education, Evis Kushi, in a statement to the media, clarified that the University of Korça, “Fan Noli” will not be closed and will continue its work in the new academic year. Kushi said that there have been proposals for its closure but no definitive decisions, where she …

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Tirana mayor attends environment conference in Budapest

The Mayor of Tirana Erion Veliaj has travelled to Hungary to participate in the Conference on Environment and Health that is being held in Budapest. Veliaj, in a post on social networks, writes that he shares the experience of Tirana at the conference. While he added that he visited the …

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Cannabis parcel found in Malesi e Madhe, three arrested

A cannabis parcel was discovered in Malësi te Madhe, while 3 people were arrested and one was declared wanted. “Successive operations for the prevention, identification and suppression of cases of cultivation of narcotic plants continue. The coded police operation “ZOOM”, developed with proactive methods by the Malësi e Madhe Police …

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Escobar: Vucic ready to accept EU’s 3-point plan, Kurti not yet

The special envoy of the United States of America for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, declared that the best solution for Kosovo and Serbia is to accept the three-point plan proposed by the European Union. Escobar said there are indications that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is ready to accept this …

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Today 78th anniversary of the annexation of Kosovo by Serbia

After the re-occupation and annexation of Kosovo in 1945 and after the building of the separation wall between Albania and the Albanians in Kosovo, the issue of Kosovo and the other territories that had remained under the former Yugoslavia would remain unresolved. In the Assembly of Prizren, held on July …