Comment BY GENCI KOJDHELI Shame with bread is easily swallowed, especially when accompanied by a glass of wine and a promise, in sugar-coated words, of salads, posts and institutional comfort in the future. Many have swallowed such shame with bread without the slightest hesitatio
Commentary BY GENCI KOJDHELI What did they have against the Roma, for heaven’s sake?! The social morality and democratic level of a society can be very well assessed by looking at the way that society treats the weakest and most vulnerable groups within itself. Developed Western
Commentary BY GENCI KOJDHELI Heroes of an endless war Apologizing to those who may consider me cynical, I must say that the suicide attack against two Albanian commandos in Afghanistan was as painful as it was expected; with at least eight years of history of sending troops into
Commentary BY Genci Kojdheli The NATO army and the army of the night Since Albania’s transition to democracy about 20 years ago, more or less all sectors of government have become the object of media scrutiny, public interest, parliamentary debates, the presentation of facts, the
Comment BY GENCI KOJDHELI The hypocrisy of a donation This Monday in Albania two events occurred: the first one that should never happen and the second one that should happen every day! On Monday a tragedy occurred that shook the entire nation and caused much pain, sadness, tears
Commentary BY Genci Kojdheli In the name of morality If there is one epithet that has been overused during the attempt these days among commentators on Albanian politics or even supporters of all political forces, it is “immoral,” which has been more or less the description of th
Comment BY GENCI KOJDHELI The vote cannot be crossed out For some time now I have been observing a somewhat vague effort, led mainly by some opinion makers based in the US, to spread among the Albanian electorate the idea of the “white vote”, a kind of protest vote against the Al
The citizen from Farka locks himself in a car for 6 hours HOSTAGE-TAKING Three people took a 25-year-old hostage to settle accounts over drug trafficking. One of the kidnappers is an officer of... Page 11 Emiljano Muja, one of the kidnappers
The formula for how the expropriation of land and houses at the New Boulevard will be carried out ► P. 11
Comment BY GENCI KOJDHELI Crime, or the real mirror A few days ago, a 21-year-old was killed in the city of Fier, and according to the police the reason was the theft of a sum of 60,000 lek that the young man had just won through sports betting. Also according to the police, the
BY GENCI KOJDHELI The puppet commission A parliamentary investigative commission is a group of the prepared, unmoved by the people, with the aim of discovering the unnecessary! Never before has this expression been so true as in the case of the parliamentary investigative commiss
EXHIBITION ► Page 20 Ponari: The challenges of bringing Skanderbeg’s weapons
Opinion of the Day Dear Mrs. Alba Meyer! While reading the day’s press, I came across your opinion regarding the posting of job vacancies... By GENCI KOJDHELI Some answers to “Two questions...” Continues on page 18
Opinion of the Day Dear Ms. Alba Meyer! While reading the day’s press, I came across your opinion regarding the posting of job vacancies... By GENCI KOJDHELI Some answers to “Two questions...” Continued on page 18
BY GENCI KOJDHELI To tire out the tired It so happened that the visit to Albania by the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, coincided with the outrageous attack made on the Central Election Commission in Parliament
Comment BY Genci Kojdheli Nobody asks judges about their salary Last week, Justice Minister Eduard Halimi published a government initiative regarding the reform of the justice system, which among other things proposed raising the age of judges as a way to reduce corruption in the
Commentary BY Genci Kojdheli In Europe with a Referendum In less than a week, the European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy (or, to put it plainly, the man who decides whether Europe will take us in or leave us on the road) has delivered two blows to
Comment BY Genci KOJDHELI A bargain, American plate number Eduardo returned too! He returned to enlighten us, to give us hope, to bring us back the breath of the American dream, to tell us that things are fine and that they will get even better now that he has returned. As I sit
In a phone interview for “A1 Report”, Muhamet Vata spoke and gave his version regarding the murder and mutilation of his daughter Ajshe Vata three days earlier. Muhamet Vata described in detail his role and knowledge of this event, expressing hope that the truth will be uncovered
► Pages 10-11 The murder of Agim Shuke, told by Elvira Diamanti and Saimir Kumbaro