Official pressure: the director of M.B. “snatches” one of the employees for checking the lists OFFICIAL PRESSURE The director of M.B. “snatches” one of the employees for checking the lists FLAMUR NOKA’S ORDER “HOLDS HOSTAGE” THE LSI MUNICIPAL UNIT Gjoleka: We have orders from the minister to inspect. Manjani: LSI, Berisha’s headache Pages 2-3

INTERVIEW Page 6 When Edi Rama painted the “agrarian reform” The sculptor Pjerin Kolnikaj speaks: We had him as an idol at the art lyceum, he was unique IN PHOTO: Pjerin Kolnikaj

Commentary BY ARDIAN NDRECA For a “second nature” All modernity has thought and believed in the possibility of creating a human “second nature.” Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel are the beacons that illuminated the birth of our modern society by relying on reason proper. History itself, according to Hegel, is the journey that marks the transition from the “first nature” to the human “second nature.” The “first nature” is man as he exists immediately, without culture, without emancipation, without the idea of the state, without the awareness of being free, without consciousness of the common sphere where he finds and meets others as equals. This is the man of dark passions, which always decide in his favor as an individual. The “second nature,” on the other hand, is shaped by rational principles, by the spirit of an absolute mind that hovers over history, realizing itself. Schelling also speaks of the realization of a “universal legal constitutional order” as the path to the realization of our freedom. Law and constitutional order are fully affirmed when they become part of us, that is, when they become our second nature. All of this is understood in the light of what these philosophers treat as “evil in history.” For Kant, evil in history is expressed in the blocking of interests... continues on page 13

The prime minister’s passion Xhevair Zeneli: What Berisha’s day as a livestock farmer and peasant would be like THE PRIME MINISTER’S PASSION Berisha: If I were not a doctor, I would become a farmer Xhevair Zeneli: What Berisha’s day as a livestock farmer and peasant would be like TIRANE JAKIN MARENA Prime Minister Berisha, in a meeting with farmers from Elbasan, said that taxes for agriculture will be reduced, and also showed his passion for... Page 4

HEALTH “HEALTH” Pages 15-19 Headache: causes, risk factors and how to treat it

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MEMORY Page 14 40 years since the Spaç revolt: 4 more years for the museum

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LSI leader Page 5 Meta: Berisha should leave the office; he can take the chair

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ECONOMY Page 9 The balance sheet: banks give more loans to the government

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