EXCLUSIVE / THE ITALIAN AMBASSADOR IN TIRANA: REFORMS NEED THE OPPOSITION Saba D’Elia: Parliament is not functioning The Prime Minister in Shkodër accuses the opposition of working against integration: the SP does not even want visas. Rama and the left-wing local officials: We will escalate protests across the country By TEDI BLUSHI The Ambassador of the Republic of Italy in Tirana, Saba D’Elia, in an exclusive interview given yesterday to “Gazeta Shqiptare”, called on the Albanian political class to cooperate and not become an obstacle through its divisions to the country’s integration process toward the European Union. He said that “the fact that Parliament is not functioning, that these reforms, necessary and described as such even by the European Union, are not being approved, inevitably leads to a slowdown of the process.” D’Elia then emphasizes in this interview... Continues on page 3

Opinion of the Day By REZEAR XHAXHIU The weekend carnival that some actors of Albanian politics put on during the Stabilization-Association committee meeting showed “that we are still the same”... Continues on page 21 Shame

MILOSAO The story of the young man who was found mysteriously drowned (In the photo:) Latif Fodulli. Caricature of Fodulli for the writer Ismail Kadare. Facsimile of the handwritten critique The manuscript, written in pencil in eight notebooks, is unveiled, with positive and negative assessments of the prominent writer’s literary work The short life of the engineer who graduated with a gold medal and was sent to work at the mechanical plant in Poliçan. How the body was found in the Vjosa river Supplement

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THE PRESIDENT’S CHALLENGES The Republican victory in the USA conditions Barack Obama From WASHINGTON, ELIRA ÇANGA On page 17

BY CHARLES RECKNAGE Khatol Mohammadzai is the only woman holding the rank of general in Afghanistan. But she does not want to be known only as a general, but... Continues on page 20 From the veil, to the uniform

AFTER THE DONATION BY THE STATE Villa owners: Kosovo /to refuse/ the embassy On page 10

MUNICIPALITY OF DURRËS Soft loan, approved the list of 90 beneficiaries On page 15

Football / The sparks of the derby of the Italian capital “The fall of the regime found me with 8 qindarka in my pocket. Mihajlović told me Albanian m...” From communism to Lazio, the rare story of Igli Tare “The fall of the regime found me with 8 qindarka in my pocket. Mihajlović told me Albanian m...” His future was destined! His father, Isai, and his mother, Aleksandra, chose precisely the name Igli, which in Albanian translates as “Eagle.” Sooner or later, it had to happen that he would live and work in Rome, with Lazio. Igli Tare does not need to live and fly with Olympia (Lazio’s eagle), since he has done so by going to different places, Greece, Germany and, most recently, Vlora, which he had dreamed of since he was a child. “Yes, Italy is what it was when I spent my holidays in Vlora and I always touched your country, listened to the music, watched your television channels”, ... On page 23