NEW SOCIAL INSURANCE SCHEME, YOU GET 0.6% LESS MONEY FOR EACH MONTH REDUCED PENSION How to qualify without reaching the age limit Full tables/ The pension criteria without completing the years of seniority at work: you can retire up to 3 years earlier. The self-employed do not qualify By OLA MITRE The new pension scheme, which is expected to enter into force on 1 January 2015, provides changes for those who want to receive an old-age pension without reaching the age and seniority required under the new law. Thus, according to the amendments made to the law “On social insurance in the Republic of Albania,” insured persons acquire the right to receive a reduced old-age pension up to three years before reaching the retirement age. In fact, the current scheme also provided for the reduced pension, but it had precisely defined.... On page 10

Incident in Dukagjin/ “I thought the helicopter would explode” View of the area and the direction from which the helicopter came to make an emergency landing The helicopter floor hit by the bullet The fuel tank and pipe damaged by the bullet Exterior view of the hit helicopter Impact on the helicopter body The main reducer compartment damaged by the bullet EXCLUSIVE Anti-drug operation, the commissioner recounts the ordeal: I smelled kerosene, I thought we would blow up in midair. They shot at us 30 times By AURORA KOROMANI There were two ways to die: either from the bullets hitting us, or by continuing the flight and having the helicopter explode, because we had... On page 9 View of the area and the direction from which the helicopter came to make an emergency landing; The helicopter floor hit by the bullet; The fuel tank and pipe damaged by the bullet; Exterior view of the hit helicopter; Impact on the helicopter body; The main reducer compartment damaged by the bullet

DEBATE WITH BRACE: NO HEARINGS On pages 2-3

THE INSPECTOR IN 2011: I AM ON FULLANI’S SIDE On pages 4-5

In yesterday’s “Times” EDITORIAL When NATO last met in Britain, in 1990, the Cold War had ended. As Margaret Thatcher and George Bush.... Continues on page 20

Opinion of the Day By XHEVAT MUSTAFA It must be emphasized from the outset that, in assessing the arrest of the Governor of the Bank of Albania, Ardian Fullani, and the inspector.... continues on page 21 A lot of noise for little

PD CHAIRMAN Lulzim Basha: There will be no elections with this territorial map On page 6

CRIME IN HAS On page 8

A STORY ABOUT A FRIEND Dritëro Agolli: Niko Nikolla, a life as a partisan until literature On page 18

“BLACK LIST” New record, over 10 thousand bad taxpayers On page 7

THE RIGHT TO COMPETE WITH FORM A3 On page 11