I will consult the President about my position. - Interview - p. 5

None of the former leaders will return before the Assembly p. 3

The drafters of the laws are the first to break them p. 13

By Arben SHEHI Every Albanian who has read the report of the “Friends of Albania,” presented at the meeting of 22 July, will immediately be reminded, behind the observations in the economic development paragraph about “concern over the low level of foreign investment...” [The text is damaged and partly illegible.] ...anyone who “dares” to come to Albania for “tourist recreation” is charged a 50-dollar entrance tax), we do not believe any comment is needed. Which hospitable Albanian would dare to travel at night to homes with a foreign friend outside... Tirana’s Ring Road? The “secured” financing obtained by Finance Minister Angjeli is not a merit of the Albanian Government in attracting foreign financing to Albania: it is attributable to the international policy of Corridor 8, which, for strategic reasons, must pass through Albania (thank goodness our forebears loved this country and did not sell it to our “well-meaning” neighbours). The heyday of around 700 Italian firms alone will be remembered nostalgically by Albanians, while powerful international groups are abandoning the field instead of “putting down roots” in this country. The firms that remain have become embroiled in liquidation scandals, bribes involving ministry officials, tenders and supervisory commissions. Meanwhile, dull television reports have become an everyday occurrence, showing tax officials or government representatives meeting foreign officials, envoys and ambassadors only on the occasion of ... their departure from Albania (!!). Businesspeople who for more than a year have kept their joint enterprises locked up say these days, with bitter smiles, that they are ready to leave. This is the government of farewells...! [The source text contains extensive garbling and missing fragments; the legible wording has been translated without supplying the missing text.]

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- I am the owner!

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P. 6 The Greek hostage freed himself P. 7 Officials, millions of dollars for per diems P. 9

Today, at 11:00, at the Republican Party’s Central Headquarters, the leadership will hold a press conference.