The MEP will present the agreement to Basha, Rama and Meta at the round table. PD will meet the parliamentary group on Monday, everyone in Parliament on Wednesday BOYCOTT KUKAN REVEALS THE FORMULA FOR THE RETURN OF THE OPPOSITION The MEP will present the agreement to Basha, Rama and Meta at the round table. PD will meet the parliamentary group on Monday, everyone in Parliament on Wednesday PAGE 2-3

COMMENT BY ALBANA GJINO[PULLI?](*) Audit and the challenge called “anti-corruption” Corruption is like cancer for a country, and no nation can bear the social, political and economic costs it causes. If the roots of this devil are not destroyed, it tends to grow more and more, devouring the foundations of everything that has been built and developed. Corruption poisons not only itself, but it is an infection and, as such, has the ability to tempt others around it to commit the same sin. In a corrupt environment, not only the one who takes should be punished, but also those who offer, since the latter encourage and spur corruption beyond existing limits. Lord Acton said, “power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Corruption makes no economic distinctions; it infects all forms of government, weakens and... continues on page 16

EXECUTION Attack in Shkodër, two dead and a 20-year-old wounded Police: The victims had criminal records PAGE 12

REPORT Prosecutor’s Office: How the “Santa Claus” gang was uncovered PAGE 10-11

POLITICAL SATIRE BY ARBEN DUKA To pay for the electricity, like a line for milk On page 25

MEDICINE PAGE 8 Specializations, here are the candidates’ interview points Testing will take place from December 22 to 30

HOLLAND The Albanian ‘Messi’ handcuffed, the “king” of cocaine in Europe PAGE 8

SUPPLEMENT “RILINDASI” RILINDASI THE DUKAGJINIS OF THE 14TH CENTURY An important document of Lekë Dukagjini in Dubrovnik DUKAGJINS The important 14th-century document of Lekë Dukagjini in Dubrovnik Ylli Polovina: Could Albania also fail to come into being? PAGES 15-22

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