Meta in Strasbourg boasts about Brussels’ failure

The head of the corrupt government signs the Anti-Corruption Convention From Strasbourg, Astrit PATOZI on page 15

Albania, first in heroin trafficking

World Customs Organization: Albania like Morocco in drug trafficking in Europe on page 10

$65,000 for Lidra Meidani in the US

The President’s wife on a fundraising campaign At the “Dizin” restaurant in New Jersey, under the patronage of the Albanian ambassador to the UN, several paintings brought from Albania were exhibited and sold, raising a total of $65,000—a sum that, at the end of the evening, did not go to its intended destination but into Lidra’s pockets on page 3

CEC, the Socialists’ lost battle

Sokol OLLDASHI The unexpected resignation of Arian Klosi from membership in the Central Election Commission, appointed by the President of the Republic, Rexhep Meidani, prompted a cautious reaction in opposition political circles on page 5

The Socialists must prepare to step down

By Mujë BUCAPAJ On April 7, the deadline expires that the US, through Secretary of State Madlen Ollbrajt, set for the left-wing coalition in power regarding the CEC on page 7

“Meidani would not accept my resignation”

One of the former CEC appointees testifies that the President blocked dialogue on page 5

The President’s paranoia

on page 6

Gjinushi, you filthy provocateur!

on page 4

Limprecht: “Without the rule of law, investment will not come” on page 10 Paloka: Equality and balance in the composition of the CEC on page 5 Makbule Çeço, or the gang lady on page 6 Funds for road repairs are being held hostage on page 9 Meidani and Gjinushi put 189 assistant judges out of work on page 11

The government protects Azem Hajdari’s killers

Today, 561 days since Azem’s murder Every day that passes since the murder of Azem Hajdari, a symbol of democracy and pluralism, proves the involvement of Fatos Nano’s government and its successor in the crime that weighs on Albania. The government of the former communists, which leaves free and undisturbed the criminals who took the life of the December Leader, shows Albanians that they have been and remain on the side of the killers, who have names and identities but are not touched by those in power. The democrats and all the Albanians who loved and honored Azem Hajdari can never tolerate this continuing. The government must capture the criminals and bring them to justice, or publicly declare that it itself committed the murder of Azem Hajdari.