Unified governance and the coalition crisis

Nano’s ultimatum sets the parties in motion to defend their ministers The survival of the governing coalition is in doubt. Despite the slogans about unified governance,

The money was transported in coffins

Scandalous statement by investigation chiefs. 5 companies face new accusations. Names of officials on lists of counterfeit-dollar traffickers SHIK threatens the Prosecutor’s Office. Pobrati takes revenge for “Revenge” The money was transported in coffins Scandalous statement by investigation chiefs. 5 companies face new accusations. Names of officials on lists of counterfeit-dollar traffickers Four diplomats and a police station chief are accused Page 2

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Albanian-Italian drug network dismantled; many women and two minors

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The survival of the governing coalition is in doubt. Despite the slogans about unified governance, Prime Minister Nano is trying to exert pressure on his allies in the PAD, the PSD, and the parties represented in the government. Lately Nano has shown a tendency to promote a simplistic way of thinking, one that seeks to evade moral problems and tiresome positions by projecting and imposing doctrinal solutions. Something has stalled in the government’s work, and to put it right the prime minister is exerting psychological pressure on his subordinate ministers, presenting lists of political recommendations. The allies, however, believe that governance can be improved through open dialogue, not one-sided pressure. The leaders of the Democratic Alliance showed strong existential tendencies yesterday, adopting a formula of resistance and counterattack against the prime minister’s pressure. “The changes in government will not affect the PAD, because its ministers are the ones the government should be proud of,” the leaders of the “Alliance” said yesterday. Ultimately, this is an ultimatum for the prime minis- Continued/page 4

OSCE Shall I tie your shoes too?

Mediu: The repeal of the law will end the former persecuted people’s hunger strike. The law is repealed in Parliament

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ARREST OF THE CRIMES CHIEF

ARREST OF THE CRIMES CHIEF Page 6

Albanians are neither barbarians nor criminals or mafiosi

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Godo: German assistance also for the Constitutional Court conflict Bode: We will boycott Parliament Berisha: We will return to Parliament

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The Albanian-Italian drug network dismantled; many women and two minors The Otranto mystery is close to being solved: Italians admit guilt.

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February '98 – Albanians angered and the West angered, hunger strikes, rain, landslides, floods, 40 drowned in one house

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Koço with two heads and the company with 2 K The demon in the Security Service’s net Ceka and the powers concerning Customs

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DBSH: Open the files on party leaderships

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