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You can’t have your cake and eat it too

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It was the deal of the year, the fulfillment of the first condition to proceed ahead with the accession negotiations and it was heralded as a major achievement by international stakeholders from Brussels to Washington D.C. Even State Secretary Pompeo, with an overflowing plate of international crisis, found a few minutes to congratulate what was otherwise a meager agreement not to change much by the main three political stakeholders in Albania. Yet now, the June 5 agreement of the Political Council is on life support, threatened by two of the three signatories: the majority and the so called “parliamentary” opposition. …

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