EDI RAMA: A public debate is needed, to be concluded by September PS: Lifting immunity, “NO” to the vote on 6 August Roundtable in Parliament, EURALIUS: The PD’s proposal makes us happy because it is our proposal. The PS has also submitted a European draft (In the photo:) Meeting of the Legislative Council for the constitutional amendments On pages 2-3

TIRANA MUNICIPALITY Registry office, the blacklist of entities that do not pay On page 6

Opinion of the Day By AHMET SHQARRI The history of a country cannot be made in one day, a week, a month or within a year, as we seem to want to do in this 100th jubilee of the Declaration of Independence. ... The euphoric whirlwind of the 100th anniversary... Continues on page 14

Opinion of the Day By ILIR DHIMA In fact, Samuel Langhorne Clemens died back in 1910. But despite his literary and journalistic pseudonym - Mark Twain - throughout the world... We just can’t shake off this Mark Twain Continues on page 15

INTERVIEW Jemin Gjana: No to holding two posts in PD and government On page 5

INTERVIEW/ Enver’s security chief “Ataturk’s time, my father fought in Turkey, he was not heard from for 9 years” Sulo Gradeci: My father personally knew Ismail Qemali “Ataturk’s time, my father fought in Turkey, he was not heard from for 9 years” By FATOS VELIU Sulo Gradeci. A well-known name as the loyal man who secured the life of the communist state leader Enver Hoxha for 30 years, comes before the general public with his rare testimony. Sulo Gradeci, the loyal and much-talked-about man from the anti-Enverist circles .... On pages 10-11

TIRANA He slams his head on the ground after the fight, 28-year-old dies On page 7

INTERVIEW/ The well-known writer: I met him a month ago, he seemed like an optimistic boy The lifeless body of the poet from Kosovo was found in France, embassy: Natural death By FATMIRA NIKOLLI The news that one of his best friends had passed away tragically, miles away from his homeland, deeply affected Dritëro Agolli. In the meetings they had had, for different interviews at his home, we had happened to hear the playful conversations he had had with Ali Podrimja. About how the poets drank until after midnight, how Podrimja would come and stay for an entire week at Dritëroi’s house, how the latter had been told a month earlier that he would live to be 100 years old. Dritëroi often mentioned it to us, and spoke to us highly of the poet and man Podrimja, but also of his friend Ali. It was not very easy to reach him by phone yesterday, neither to offer condolences nor to ask him... On page 29

FOOTBALL Hamdi Salihi: The differences between the USA and Europe On page 30

THE DILEMMA AMONG WRITERS, WHICH IS THE FIRST NOVEL OF SOCIALIST REALISM? Supplement