During the parliamentary session of November 24, Deputy Prime Minister Niko Peleshi responded to allegations of opposition deputy Sali Berisha about a supposed new thermoelectric power plant (TEC) planned in Maliq, Korça. According to the Deputy Prime Minister It is a decision of the government at the initiative of the Ministry of Energy (MEI) to give
Margo Rejmer: I want to start with a question related to a very particular situation discussed now in Albania, namely the ketchup attack on the Minister of Education and Sports by a young student, Mirela Ruko. The media are commenting on this event by referring to Ruko’s personal story: lack of funds for studying or
Today Socialist Party (PS) Deputy Eduart Shalsi, one of the three co-authors of the new law on waste management, has called the activists who oppose the law “crybabies,” while referring to the deputies of the opposition as “intriguers and speculators.” During an interview in the courtyard of the Parliament, Deputy Shalsi stated: The answer of
Today is not the first time that a law allowing for the import and processing of waste is discussed in parliament. A similar law proposed by the former Berisha government was approved in 2011 and subsequently abolished in 2013 by incoming Prime Minister Edi Rama as the first official act of his new government. Formally, the
Yesterday, the Court of First Instance in Tirana declared a series of decisions to seize of all the wealth declarations of high state officials and the central server of the High Inspectorate of the Declaration and Control of Wealth and Conflict of Interests (ILDKPKI) by the Prosecution of Tirana unlawful. On November 7, under the direction of General
Several payments have been made on account of the international law firm Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co, Albania’s legal representative in two arbitration cases that are currently under review at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) of the World Bank in Washtington, DC, between businessman Becchetti and the Albanian government. In November
This week the government again used its budget reserves to pay lawyers in what is already turning out to be costly feud against the Italian businessman Francesco Becchetti. The government is clearly willing to face these costs, paid by the Albanian citizens, in the case of the Kalivaç hydropower plant. The government annulled Becchetti’s contract, tried (and failed) to
On Monday Oct. 31, the newly appointed non-resident ambassador to Iran, Genti Gazheli, offered his credentials to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Gazheli, who is at the same resident ambassador to Turkey and non-resident ambassador to Azerbaijan, has no previous experience in diplomacy, being a former customs officer and former director of the Directorate for the Prevention of
Kelmend Balili, the former director of the Regional Directorate of Road Transport Services in Saranda, currently accused for international drug trafficking and under an arrest warrant of the Greek police and the American DEA, sent a clarification to the Greek media through his lawyers. The letter states that: The accusations of the Greek police are
About new political parties: These new forces seem a bit like “let’s build a boat,” but how are there to cross the ocean?! This is the problem of these new forces. Bringing together disappointed people, that’s possible, but how to manage to build trust, a new love, a vision such that people will build that