Today: Nov 14, 2025

Editorial - Page 47

Elections, No news is (not always) good news!

Although news and debates on the upcoming local government elections have already monopolized public debates in the media, three very important issues relating to the process rather than the outcome of elections
19 years ago
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Elections, Battle in Tirana but not for Tirana

By Jerina Zaloshnja The electoral campaign has barely started and it is already clear that the real battle will occur in Tirana. The political in these electionsءs opposed to the administrativeسtands particularly
19 years ago
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Time for a New Agreement

Finally, the government and opposition reached an agreement that ended the two month old political crisis on electoral reform. Although this crisis was not new, its intensity was surprising and entirely absurd
19 years ago
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Elections: Don’t do it!

Although the President has decreed 20 January as the day of the administrative elections, the Opposition, adopting a decision in extremis has declared that it will boycott these elections. The Opposition bases
19 years ago
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Game of Chicken

Hoodlums and superpowers often engage in the game of chicken. It works something like this: two people drive their cars towards each other and the one that swerves first to avoid a
19 years ago
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Delaying the inevitable in Kosova

By Janusz Bugajski International powers would be committing a grievous error if they postpone the decision on Kosova’s statehood. Over the past year, U.S. and EU officials have raised expectations by affirming
19 years ago
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Dodging the Executive Bullet

What seemed impossible a few months ago happened last week. In a letter to Parliament on October 13th the President refused to follow-up on the recommendations of Parliament to sack Prosecutor General
19 years ago
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Three Ways for Albatross to fly again

By Jerina zaloshnja The Albatross is a special kind of bird, a bird that has a unique way of flying. Zoologists say that “being such large and heavy bodied birds and thus
19 years ago
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