HEADLINES
POLITICS
- EU increasing Balkan influence? Priority Agenda drafted in Sofia
- Three DP members didn’t show up at Prosecution for audio recording of Interior Minister’s brother
- Rama: “No reason to fire Xhafaj. The audio was manipulated, to destabilize Albania before EU negotiations”
- Sophie summit, Tusk: Substances to be discussed, not dates for membership
- EU enlargement, Macron even more skeptical in the Sofia summit
- Audio-tapping expertise: experts speak: Tapping was made through phone
- Rama at Sofia’s Summit, meets with Juncker and Vucic
- Macron dims EU membership hopes of Balkan countries
- Hahn: “We could interrupt negotiations with Albania if ‘big fish’ go unpunished”
- Xhafaj: “Audio recording, a manipulation. This is blackmail from crime’s interests”
- Interior Minister could fail Vetting Test applied for common police officers
ECONOMY
- Albanian less funds from EU, Brussels has invested more in Serbia
CHRONICLE
- Incident in Elbasan, Xaferri in house arrest, seized travelling in possession of weapons
- 70-year-old found drowned in Vlora
- The three youngsters that attempted to rape 13-year-old girl in Fier imprisoned
- Izet Haxhia’s lawyer files request for retrial
SOCIETY
- Eugent Bushpepa asks for help: Somebody is trying to take advantage and ask for money on my behalf
- Monika Lubonja speaks for the first time for the reasons she left the Theater of Puppets: I was betrayed
- Students protest in front of parliament
- Katundi i Ri residents on protest: We are flooded as soon as Bovilla reservoir is opened
- Albanian athletics record man Gani Aliaj passes away
- Children living among garbage in Durres landfill
- Scandals in Tirana clubs, children smoke nargile
- Tale beach still lacks the health service