Edi Rama
PM lashes out at SPAK about election surveillance
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has called on the Special Anti-Corruption Structure (SPAK) to halt all forms of political party surveillance during the upcoming May 11 parliamentary elections. He described...
Experts call for revisions to higher education law a decade after reform
A decade after Albania’s higher education reform was introduced in 2015, both local and international experts, including leaders from public and private universities contracted by the Ministry of Education, have...
Wife of Mayor of Tirana, Ajola Xoxa breaks silence on SPAK allegations, denies €800,000 spending claim
Ajola Xoxa, the wife of Tirana Mayor Erion Veliaj, has publicly responded for the first time to allegations that she spent over €800,000 on luxury clothing and jewelry. The claim...
Edi Rama at Munich Security Conference: EU must move faster on enlargement
Prime Minister Edi Rama participated in the “EU Enlargement” panel at the Munich Security Conference, alongside European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Marta Kos and North Macedonian Prime Minister Hristijan...
Albanian PM rejects speculation that Albania will host displaced Gaza Palestinians
Prime Minister Edi Rama firmly dismissed rumors that Albania will participate in a potential U.S.-backed plan to relocate Palestinians displaced from Gaza as part of President Donald Trump’s proposed reconstruction...
PM Rama denies speculation on Veliaj meeting amid opposition sponsored conspiracy theories
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has strongly refuted claims that he planned to visit detained Tirana Mayor Erion Veliaj in prison, dismissing the reports as “fake news” propagated by political...
PM Rama challenges SPAK’s priorities following Tirana mayor’s arrest
Prime Minister Edi Rama took to social media on Thursday morning to engage in yet another public discussion about the state of Albania’s justice system. During a live online exchange,...
Justice must be protected from politics, if it does not engage in politics
By Mero Baze In the way politics has treated SPAK and the new justice system in general, two different standards have been established. The standard of Sali Berisha, who openly...
PM Rama intensifies criticism of justice system, calls for accountability
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Edi Rama convened an extraordinary meeting of the Socialist Party’s parliamentary group, delivering yet another detailed and forceful critique of SPAK and the broader justice system....
We are not a Prosecutorial Republic: on Tirana’s 105th Anniversary, PM Rama denounces SPAK’s handling of mayor’s arrest
In a late evening event celebrating the 105th anniversary of Tirana being declared Albania’s capital, Prime Minister Edi Rama delivered his most forceful criticism yet of SPAK’s prosecution of arrested...