The former chief prosecutor, in a letter to the US Congress, claims that the US ambassador asked him to arrest the former Speaker of Parliament in 2015. Lu responds: Llalla is a corrupt and discredited public official, his claim that he asked for Meta’s arrest is his absurd lie! FREEDOM HOUSE REPORT: META IS SEEN BY CITIZENS AS A SYMBOL OF CORRUPTION ► PAGES 2, 3, 4, 5

“People were being killed for no reason. The police tied a 10-year-old boy to a pole with wire. They threw a 9-year-old boy into the mines.” ► PAGE 13

139 open jobs and the chances that nurses and other health professionals have ► PAGE 14

BY Alba Malltezi The most magical hymn I have ever read in my life about Work Since I was little, but even now, one greeting we Albanians have always catches my attention. Whenever someone says it to me, it is like an invisible knife passing through me without reason: “Are you tired? Are you upset?” It seems to me like a sly [?] question, from which I too sometimes cannot escape. Since I was little, but even now, one greeting we Albanians have always catches my attention. Whenever someone says it to me, it is like an invisible knife passing through me without reason: “Are you tired? Are you upset?” It seems to me like a wicked [?] question, from which I too sometimes cannot escape. continued on page 11

FISCAL REFORMS ► PAGE 8 WORLD BANK: WE DO NOT AGREE WITH VAT FOR SMALL BUSINESSES

JUSTICE UNDER THE SCANNER ► PAGE 6 Vetting ‘catches’ the judge from Durrës, the reason is wealth The judge of the Court of Appeals in Durrës, Besim Trezhnjeva, cannot justify his wealth of 20 million lek and three apartments

The Minister of Infrastructure and Energy explains in ‘Repolitix’ the negotiations he is conducting between the government and the concessionaire ► PAGE 7

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