EU free-visa travel postponed again for Albania! Is our mentality to be blamed?
If you have been following the news lately then you must have heard about the European Commission’s decision to grant visa-free travel to three Balkan countries – Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, while Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kosovo where left out for technical reasons. From the people that I have been talking to as well [...]
Albania General Elections 2009: The Process has Improved but Violations Persist!
The final numbers for Albania’s general elections are not yet out, in my perspective the most important issue is the election process itself since the political options presented by both the right and left, do not present any improvements. At least not sufficient since what they have to offer is already old repackaged stuff. With [...]
Finally I got my ID card
The other day I went to get my new ID card. Oh boy was I happy – not really. Anyway, I applied for it about a month ago and had to wait 4 hours in line, then when I went to get it luckily the line was short and it took them only about 10 [...]
Anarchist Group Issues Declaration
Lately, the news came out about an anarchist Albanian group called the Social Resistance Front, whose aim, as I understand it, is to warn top politicians and administration officials that if they continue doing “evil”, they might themselves be targeted with violence or even death.
Finally, Albanian Joins NATO
Finally, Albania and Croatia are now a full-status members of NATO. The much awaited day has come and people can feel good about it. The invitations were issued by the U.S.A. president Barack Obama and were signed by the Albanian President Bamir Topi and the Croatian one – Stipe Mesic. However, as I write about [...]
ID Cards – Is the Government Violating My Rights
As most of you who follow should be aware, this time of the year most of the media have been devoting a lot of attention to the initiation of the process whereby all Albanian citizens will be equipped with new identity cards with will ensure more transparent results in the upcoming general elections as well [...]
Well known surgeon arrested in Tirana
Recently one of the most experienced and well known oncology surgeons in Tirana’s main hospital “Mother Teresa” was arrested on bribery charges. The surgeon’s arrest was treated as a high profile case by the media, and rightly so. The police cuffed him in public as he was coming out of a restaurant near his job. [...]
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