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TIRANA, Dec. 29 – Prime Minister Edi Rama has for the first time admitted Albania feared a Czech Republic veto over the country’s 2014 EU candidate status bid in settling a controversial dispute with state-owned CEZ company which Albanian state auditors later revealed cost the Albanian state budget a staggering €479 million in damage. Prime Minister Rama was speaking on Thursday at an opposition Democratic Party-initiated investigative parliamentary committee over the CEZ affair two and a half years after the Albanian government and the Czech energy giant reached an amicable out-of-court deal over the Albanian electricity distribution operator, former CEZ…
