EU: Restore the rule of law

EU foreign ministers set conditions for Albania’s integration into the Stability Pact on page 2

There is no economic freedom in Albania

Canadian Institute for Economic Freedom: Corruption has stifled Albania Canadian Institute for Economic Freedom: Corruption has stifled Albania There is no economic freedom in Albania on page 3

Deposits at risk

The Governor admits that there is no law on deposit guarantees, while the Finance Minister admits that the money has been turned into Treasury bills Angjeli and Cani offer no guarantees whatsoever for the money in the Savings Bank on page 8

Freedom or a license?

By Halit SHAMATA When people ask me, not infrequently, what is happening with you (the six) now, I answer in my usual way: “We are not free yet, but in a state of freedom, we are, so to speak, equipped with a license!” But if only six Albanians were licensed in this way, things would not have gone as badly as they have! on page 4

Pollo, carnival in Strasbourg

“Reformist” deputy-journalist, self-interview in “Shekulli” and “Albania” Articles and self-interviews distributed in newspapers and other electronic media outlets by e-mail, using the address gpollo@albaniaonline.net (when Genci is in Tirana) and the address gpollo@hotmail.com (when Genci is abroad), are a disgraceful phenomenon in Albanian politics, for which the failed man of the Democratic Party deserves the credit on page 5

We will die for national values

TOB artists determined to continue the strike to the end The TOB artists are determined to continue the strike to the end We will die for national values special feature on pages 10–11

Berisha receives the head of San Egidio

The leader of the DP praises Paglia’s contribution to the Kosovo issue on page 3

Patos languishes in total crisis

This is what the socialist government has reduced the city of oil workers to on page 5

Parliament holds emergency session on Lazarat

“The Centre-Right” denounces police violence against the civilian population on page 2

Aid in the hands of Albanian mafiosi

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Today, 498 days since the murder of the December Leader

The government protects Azem Hajdari’s killers Every day that passes since the murder of Azem Hajdari, the symbol of democracy and pluralism, proves the involvement of Fatos Nano’s government and its successors in the crime that shook the entire Albanian nation. The governments of the former communists, which allow the criminals who took the life of the December Leader to go free and unpunished, show Albanians that they have been and remain on the side of the killers, who have names and surnames but are untouched by those in power. Albanian democracy and freedom cannot tolerate this, and the memory of the late Azem Hajdari cannot tolerate such disgraceful compromises. The government must either arrest the criminals and bring them to justice, or publicly declare that it itself committed the murder of Azem Hajdari.