During his four years in office, Edi Rama failed to keep his promise for free healthcare. Instead, he has given the Albanians the most expensive healthcare possible. In the last four years he has handed out concessions for the free healthcare checkup, the hemodialysis service, and the sterilization of surgical equipment, at a total value
The Council of Ministers has yesterday approved the construction of a wind energy park near Tepelena, along the river Vjosa. According to a technical report drafted by Alb-Building, the investor, the first wind energy park will contain six wind energy turbines of 2 MW each. Alb-Building received a permit to develop a wind mill park in the
The new regulation that protects the historical center did not protect the home of Thanas Kamberi, found at the entrance of Pazari i Vjetër neighborhood in Gjirokastra. The fire blazed out of the roof first and then it spread in both floors of the house, in thirty minutes everything was reduced to ashes! The well-known residence known
In December 1991, George Soros established his foundation in Tirana. Albania was the last country of Eastern Europe where communists were still in power and the democratic opposition was expected to take its place quickly. The American billionaire’s foundations had been established before in Budapest and all other Eastern European countries. In some of these countries, foundations
Editor-in-Chief of news portal Exit, Carloalberto Rossi, who, together with Neritan Sejamini, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, and their collaborators, makes a valuable effort to keep critical and free thinking alive in a time that our media have degraded into a banal servitude to power, addressed an open letter to me after the publication of
After a meeting in Tirana with General Prosecutor Adriatik Llalla, Italian Anti-Mafia Director Franco Roberti declared that “drug cultivation has tripled in Albania.” Roberti added that the influx of narcotics from Albania to Italy had increased considerably: Together with our Albanian colleagues we need to understand what the reason is for the increase in this
After the successful event on Saturday, the “angry citizens” of the Democratic Party (PD) continue to meet under the tent. Two or three times a day Lulzim Basha goes around to harangue the crowd, introducing new guests participating in the protest, and especially confirming the position of no return: either a technical government to guarantee
Ad Xhindi was one of the best students in physics in our class. He was made for abstract concepts and theoretical science. Ad Xhindi was brave and hot-headed. He was one of the few students at the time that harbored a strong, masculine hate against the regime. Naturally, he was at the forefront of the students’
Yesterday, in his Facebook “monologue of the week,” Prime Minister Edi Rama commented on the protests organized by the opposition in front of the Prime Ministry. Yesterday we all saw a protest called by the opposition for weeks and weeks, which by itself showed for us a great difference with the protest of six years
Yesterday, the Prime Minister Edi Rama signed a decision of the Council of Ministers to transfer ownership of the General Directorate of Taxes in Delvina to the Socialist Party to function as the party’s regional headquarters. The mayor of Delvina is Rigels Balili (LSI), brother of “Escobar of the Balkans” Klement Balili. Back in August 2013, when outgoing