THE SECOND ROUND: RAMBOUILLET MOVES TO ÉVREUX, FRANCE Kadare: We are burning Kosovo ourselves On pages 3–5

EDITORIAL Ilir META A map published yesterday in your newspaper concerning the geographical distribution of the three “rival groupings” ahead of the forthcoming PS Congress seemed to want to institutionalize the much-discussed “division” within the PS on the eve of the forthcoming Congress. But such a map is somewhat believable to the ordinary reader, and also to grassroots socialists who hear several different positions on the same issue and, after becoming confused, will not believe that this is a division or a struggle for power, but would like to console themselves with the comforting thought that democracy in the Party is being deepened further and that things will be put right one day. It is clear that all of us, the leaders of the Socialist Party, are abusing the good hope of the 1 million PS voters that the “leadership” will find the best solutions, but let us wait a little longer. Little by little, patience is also running out. The difficult economic and social situation in which the country finds itself, further complicated by the crisis in Kosovo, as if the state of our party of Albanian socialists were not enough. The holding of the third Congress in June nevertheless carries a hope that we must surely turn into confidence and not disappointment: that the socialists will be able to reflect on their first two years in government so as to inspire the electorate with the necessary confidence that the next two years will be governed better. Socialists should not need a contest between individuals or groups over who can bring more delegates or districts along to the Continued on page 4

DOSSIER Albanian mafia money $123 million in Italian banks On pages 12–13 Albanian mafia money: $123 million in Italian banks

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The transformer brought from China for the Fierzë Hydroelectric Power Plant gets stuck in the tunnels of Lezhë. The people at the Railway Directorate did not take the height of the tunnels into account when they decided that the 125-ton generator would be transported by train through them. On page 14