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President Bush in Albania

By Janusz Bugajski President George W. Bush is undertaking his first visit to Albania as one of his final European destinations following the G8 summit in Berlin. Before he leaves the presidential office in 2008, Bush is taking the opportunity

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Politics in self inflicted siege

By Jerina Zaloshnja The election of the President of the Republic via a process of consensus or an aksham pazar* ? Will the country have early elections, or will the Assembly manage to elect a new President? If the Assembly

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A Standing Conflict

By Jerina Zaloshnja This week the President of the Republic sent the draft law, “On internal auditing in the public sector,” back to the Assembly for further review. According to the explanations provided by the President’s Office, the draft law

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Where do terrorists come from?

By Jerina Zaloshnja The news that among a group of individuals arrested in the United States charged with preparing to attack a US Military Base, were four Albanians, was a real bolt out of the blue. One of the most

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Early elections as a problem and as a solution

By Tirana Times editorial Staff The failure to achieve a consensus in the upcoming presidential elections due next month may bring Albania to early elections. Almost two years after the center-right coalition led by Dr. Berisha’s Democratic Party came to

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Resignation, the style and the substance

A bolt out of the blue! Two hours after returning from an informal meeting of the FA Ministers of the Balkans in Macedonia, Besnik Mustafaj, Albania’s Foreign Affairs Minister made the public announcement that he had handed in his resignation

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SP towards a new split?

By Tirana Times Editorial Staff While three short months remain from the moment when the new President of the Republic will be elected, the latest developments within the Socialist Party, the main opposition party, are complicating political life while the

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Students “invest” in London Stock exchange

TIRANA, April.7 – Raiffeisen Bank has sponsored an activity in which students from finance and Business departments of the Economics Faculty have an opportunity to virtually invest 1 million pounds. Head of the bank’s presence in Albania, Steven Grunerud has

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KOSOVA FINAL STATUS: Russia’s lost battle and Serbia’s proxy alliance

By Albert Rakipi Almost eight years ago, as NATO airplanes were revving up their engines to initiate the first strikes against Serbia, the Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov was flying over the Atlantic en route to Washington DC to meet

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A vacancy has arisen, position available forŠPresident

By Jerina Zaloshnja It’s final! President Alfred Moisiu will not be running for a second term in the upcoming months when the Albanian Assembly will have to elect a new Head of State for a five year presidential term. Although

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