Rama’s great ideals During these three years of government, Prime Minister Edi Rama has given great importance to relations with Serbia. Belgrade is the capital he has visited most and Aleksandar Vučić is the head of state he met most often of all – eight times in total since the beginning of his mandate: three
10. EU accession This is perhaps the least scandalous scandal on this list, but simply typical for the increasing arrogance and impunity with which the government has treated its citizens throughout 2016. Claiming until the very end that Albania just had to pass the vetting law, part of the overall reform of the judicial system, Prime
May 9, 2016 The Greek police arrests 15 people, belonging to a large network trafficking drugs from Albania to Greece and other European countries. According to the Greek police, the network is financed and directed by Klement Balili. The Greeks are unable to arrest Balili, whom they call “the drugs baron of the Balkans,” but a national
According to Philippe Le Corre, one of the key moments that boosted Chinese investments in Europe was the 2008 financial crisis, when the Chinese government started to buy eurobonds and to invest in infrastructure projects—such as the port of Piraeus in Greece, which is currently nearly completely owned by the Chinese company COSCO. The bad
Last week, the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure published the official “Selected Bidder Notice” confirming that the “Catalyst Consortium” has conclusively won the bid for the concession of the Rruga e Kombit from Milot to Morina, on the border with Kosovo. If the Catalyst Consortium accepts the concession by December 7, this brings an end
Now that the meeting of the European Council that will decide on the opening of accession negotiations with Albania is only two weeks away, Prime Minister Edi Rama has once again warned for the threat of radical Islam should the EU refuse to open its doors to the Western Balkan states. According to Reuters, Rama
On January 12, 2016, late at night, I was called on my Albanian telephone by an unknown Italian number. It turned out to be Lorenza Baroncelli, Consultant for Urban and Cultural Strategies to Prime Minister Edi Rama and project manager at the Serpentine Gallery of Hans Ulrich Obrist, another art-milieu endorser of a regime that