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Opposition protest, hunger strike escalate political crisis
TIRANA, May 6 - Some 22 MPs of the opposition Socialist Party and 180 of their supporters continued their hunger strike for the sixth day in Albania’s capital on Thursday. They are demanding the government hold a recount of the country's parliamentary election held last summer.

The protest and strike continued as Tirana Times went to press on Thursday night, with the opposition calling for another massive rally on May 9.

The hunger strike was launched last weekend after a massive rally the country’s biggest opposition party and its allies held over the transparency of last year’s June 28 general elections.
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Ruins of political process only?
The deep disputes and fierce political conflict of the past ten months between the opposition and the governing majority over the parliamentary elections of last year have taken an unexpected, dangerous turn. Twenty-two socialist members of parliament as well as 180 other citizens, supporters of the Socialist Party are on a hunger strike, in front of the Prime Minister’s Office.
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Italy and Albania 2010: Immigration via Integration, Return and Development
The first landings of the ship loads of Albanians on Italian shores in 1992 represented a complete about-turn in how the phenomenon of emigration was conceived in Italy. The footage broadcast live by all the leading television channels transformed the perception Italians had of the phenomenon of immigration: Italy had been transformed once and for all into a country of immigration and no longer of emigration.
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A Probable Solution for the Albanian Crisis
Like every opposition party in parliamentary democracies, opposition parties in Albania are more than interested in early elections, while the majority parties are not. Given the acute political crisis where the opposition’s hunger strike has plunged Albania since April 30, early elections seem to be the only way out of it. But the opposition parties may end up being not very happy with the early elections and the majority parties not very unhappy. Here is why. From the day the official results of the June 28, 2009
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Eyes on Greece as Albania delays Eurobond issue
TIRANA, May 1—Albania said it’s pushing on with its first sale of Eurobonds even after the biggest surge in emerging-market borrowing costs in a year on Greece’s downgrade caused the Czech government to abandon its borrowing plan. The government is talking to investors “today and maybe next week,” Deputy Finance Minister Nezir Haldeda said in an interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek. “We don’t believe Greece will have an impact on the deal.”
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Between the leader and politician
A leader is different from a petty politician. The leader uses his intelligence and charisma to solve the problems of the moment with his eyes on the future, and for him politics is connected to a universal ideology that helps improve peoples’ lives and culturally advance them. The leader doesn’t run after the politics of image that secure his career at all costs, he doesn’t support a movement just because it is in fashion, he is not two-faced depending on petty interests
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