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    French Jean-Dominique Giuliani, President of the Robert Schuman Fondation (a think tank on Europe) speaks during a meeting entitled "Eurozone, what a future" organized by his foundation and dedicated to euro, in Paris on July 18, 2014. 
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    The first anniversary of the appointment as Archbishop at the head of the Catholic Church/ Mons. Arjan Dodaj: Only God can be the author of our walk!

    Azerbaijan’s Ambassador Anar Huseynov: President Aliyev’s visit to Albania opened a new page in our relations through the specific accords reached

    Macedonian Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski: Open Balkans and Berlin Process are complementary processes for progress of cooperation among WB countries

    Exclusive/ China’s Ambassador to Albania Mr. Zhou Ding: China and Albania must look towards history to build the future!

    Appeal of Ukrainian Ambassador to Albania Shkurov for maximum support of Ukraine with weapons six months after Russian occupation

    Zoran Djukanovic: “The Montenegrin minority in Albania and the Albanian minority in Montenegro to be bridges of communication of our two countries”

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    European Council President Charles MICHEL, receives Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for Internal Market.  Brussels the 12/01/2021.
Le President du Conseil Europeen, Charles MICHEL, recoit Thierry Breton, Commissaire Europeen chargé du marché interieur. .  Bruxelles le 12/01/2021.,Image: 590631817, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Profimedia

    For a new paradigm by the EU and the USA for Kosovo and Serbia after the terrorist attack by serb bands on 24 september.

    Pacifying without reconciliation! Kurti’s autogoal! Between G – 7 and BRICS 11! The Balkans summer theatre continues! A speech for campaign 2024! A prewarned failure!                             

    Marriage spoiled for a lemon! The missed dinner! Sphinx and challenge for the West! Summer theatre in Bled!

    Peace as wishful thinking! Change the course! Brussels bells toll for Tirana!  Beleri between Tirana, Brussels and Athens! Compare the incomparables!  

    A cold shower! Change the tune! Partnership or vassalage? Euro-Atlantist Meloni!

    Open Balkans closed! A failed tour! Right is might! The NATO Ukrainian dilema!

    Balkan’s summer theatre started! China’s and India’s Megachallenge! SOS from Brussels! Support, Sanctions and statements!  

    No “ carrot” for Belgrade and “ stick” for Pristine! An unnecessary draft! Nor did Gjakova unite us!

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    President Begaj conveys condolences for the passing away of Father Arthur Liolin in Boston

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    Germany says it is irritating when Vucic declares the culprits as the victims…

    SPAK is making progress in Albania’s objectives for justice reform, says the US Embassy

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    The unfinished EU: integrating the Western Balkans as a geostrategic imperative

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    Triangulation of Eurasia: The North-South Corridor Underreported but pivotal for Our Common Future

    Loose lips sink morale

    Albania and Kosovo: the Leaders, the People, the Narrative

    Offensive defence: How Putin saved NATO

    A decade of Croatian EU membership: Success story of enlargement in the Western Balkans

    Elvin Luku: Fragile democracy in Albania

    French Jean-Dominique Giuliani, President of the Robert Schuman Fondation (a think tank on Europe) speaks during a meeting entitled "Eurozone, what a future" organized by his foundation and dedicated to euro, in Paris on July 18, 2014. 
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    Europe is awake, united and more valuable than ever before

  • Interview

    Exclusive/ The Russian Ambassador to Albania Mr. Mikhail Afanasiev: Russia only aims to end that war started by the West in Ukraine

    Exclusive/ Skopje’s top diplomat to Tirana, Dancho Markovski: OSCE Chairmanship a Project of National Importance for North Macedonia

    Exclusive interview of Croatian Ambassador Zlatko Kramaric: ‘There is progress in Croatian-Albanian relations, but it is still not enough’  

    The first anniversary of the appointment as Archbishop at the head of the Catholic Church/ Mons. Arjan Dodaj: Only God can be the author of our walk!

    Azerbaijan’s Ambassador Anar Huseynov: President Aliyev’s visit to Albania opened a new page in our relations through the specific accords reached

    Macedonian Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski: Open Balkans and Berlin Process are complementary processes for progress of cooperation among WB countries

    Exclusive/ China’s Ambassador to Albania Mr. Zhou Ding: China and Albania must look towards history to build the future!

    Appeal of Ukrainian Ambassador to Albania Shkurov for maximum support of Ukraine with weapons six months after Russian occupation

    Zoran Djukanovic: “The Montenegrin minority in Albania and the Albanian minority in Montenegro to be bridges of communication of our two countries”

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    European Council President Charles MICHEL, receives Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for Internal Market.  Brussels the 12/01/2021.
Le President du Conseil Europeen, Charles MICHEL, recoit Thierry Breton, Commissaire Europeen chargé du marché interieur. .  Bruxelles le 12/01/2021.,Image: 590631817, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Profimedia

    For a new paradigm by the EU and the USA for Kosovo and Serbia after the terrorist attack by serb bands on 24 september.

    Pacifying without reconciliation! Kurti’s autogoal! Between G – 7 and BRICS 11! The Balkans summer theatre continues! A speech for campaign 2024! A prewarned failure!                             

    Marriage spoiled for a lemon! The missed dinner! Sphinx and challenge for the West! Summer theatre in Bled!

    Peace as wishful thinking! Change the course! Brussels bells toll for Tirana!  Beleri between Tirana, Brussels and Athens! Compare the incomparables!  

    A cold shower! Change the tune! Partnership or vassalage? Euro-Atlantist Meloni!

    Open Balkans closed! A failed tour! Right is might! The NATO Ukrainian dilema!

    Balkan’s summer theatre started! China’s and India’s Megachallenge! SOS from Brussels! Support, Sanctions and statements!  

    No “ carrot” for Belgrade and “ stick” for Pristine! An unnecessary draft! Nor did Gjakova unite us!

    G-7 with 5 major messages! Erdoganist Turkey! A historic victory postponned! Much ado about nothing!  

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    Serbia attempted to annex the north of Kosovo, the attackers were trained in Serbian bases, the Kosovo interior minister reveals

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    Albania condemns terrorist attack in Ankara as PM Rama says Europe should support Turkey more in its fight against terrorism

    Kosovo needs to protect its northern border, increasing cooperation with NATO’s presence and KFOR in the North, says PM Kurti

    ODIHR releases final report on observation mission of Albania’s 2023 local elections

    President Begaj conveys condolences for the passing away of Father Arthur Liolin in Boston

    Albania’s PM argues with Kosovo authorities, reiterating support for his proposal on the control of the north by KFOR

    The trial session for Gërdec is postponed as the former Defense Minister insists on 91 witnesses

    NATO authorizes additional forces for Kosovo

    Assembly of Kosovo approves unanimously Resolution, condemning the Serb terrorist attack on the police

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    The unfinished EU: integrating the Western Balkans as a geostrategic imperative

    What Serbia is not achieving through dialogue, it wants to achieve through terrorist attacks, says FP’s Vasili

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    US Embassy in Tirana calls on Albanian prosecutors to apply for 3 vacancies in SPAK

    Attack of the Serbian armed group in North Kosovo was a ‘true military attack’, said Albania’s former Interior Minister

    Germany says it is irritating when Vucic declares the culprits as the victims…

    SPAK is making progress in Albania’s objectives for justice reform, says the US Embassy

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Will Theresa May Resign Amid Brexit Deadlock?

27 March, 2019
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Against the backdrop of MPs grabbing control over the Brexit process, the British prime minister has reportedly resorted to some extreme measures, striving to guarantee that her brainchild, the relatively soft Brexit deal, is finally given the green light at home.

While the British government has finally agreed during their talks with Brussels to extend Article 50 of the much anticipated Withdrawal Agreement, speculation is running high on a deal that Prime Minister Theresa May has reportedly offered her colleagues: her top position in exchange for the passage of her Brexit proposal, as The Sun reported the other day.

Meanwhile, three of May’s cabinet ministers resigned earlier on Monday to thereby protest the prime minister’s failure to date to make the deal happen – these are Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa Alistair Burt, Business Minister Richard Harrington, and Health Minister Stephen Brine.

In another move meant to counter what is considered to be May’s indecisiveness to resolve the nationwide debate with the EU on the final deal terms, MPs passed an unprecedented amendment to wrest control of the Brexit timetable away from the government and put it in the hands of the House of Commons, with an ad popping up in British media calling for May’s resignation. In the next move, British MPs will vote on Wednesday to determine the next steps in the Brexit process.

Meanwhile, opinions over May’s potential resignation seem to vary, with some stating that a resignation would hardly have any effect on the passage of any deal with the EU whatsoever.

‘The Best Hope of Keeping the Conservative Party Together’

“If she were to resign it would not solve the civil war within the Conservative Party. She has survived so far because she is the best hope of the Conservatives of keeping the party together”, argued Professor Rodney Shakespeare, a renowned political commentator and visiting professor of binary economics at Trisakti University in Jakarta, as well as a co-founder of the Global Justice Movement, in an interview with Sputnik.

According to the academic, if May steps down, it will further emphasise the divisions inside the party, irrespective of the upcoming government head’s political aspirations.

“Whether they have a ‘Remain’ new leader or a ‘Brexit’ new leader, either way, the divisions in the party will be accentuated if she were to resign”, Shakespeare stressed.

‘May Not Going to Stay on for Long After Deal’s Been Passed’

Andreas Bieler, professor of political economy at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, echoed the aforementioned stance, saying that while  May’s resignation is “not clearly on the cards“, it would hardly help resolve the crisis in the governmental ranks:

“I am not so sure whether this would actually solve the impasse, because the kind of deal so far has been rejected twice in Parliament”, adding that all the new head of government could do is essentially stick to the same, already prepared deal and seek its passage:

“It is still the same deal and all that the new prime minister could do then would — then once the deal is passed – [is] negotiate the future relationship with the European Union”, Bieler noted, going on to assume, though, that there are indicators that “May is not going to stay on for long after the deal has been passed”.

Pondering on the potential candidates for the post, Bieler agreed that May has been quite resilient, having remarkably survived a vote of no confidence and a lot of other pressure from her own party and the opposing camps, adding that this might have occurred due to division among the Conservative Party’s ranks.

“And it is not quite clear who could be the next Conservative prime minister, who would certainly bring the party together. So, there are a couple of names in play: David Lidington and her deputy, but he is more a Remainer”, Bieler remarked, stressing that the candidates “may not be palatable to people from the ERG, these hard Brexiteer groups”. This could also be the reason why “she has been able to hang in there for so long”, the academic summed up.

‘She Doesn’t Seem to Be Close to Resignation’

Theresa May’s marked resilience has also been brought up by Dr Nikos Skoutaris, an expert in conflict resolution and European Union law at the University of East Anglia. In an interview with Sputnik, he recalled multiple occasions in which May’s political position as prime minister was really shaky, noting that in each separate case, she managed to stay strong, which will probably be the case this time, as well. 

“So I would take that news [resignation rumours] with a bit of salt, given that she doesn’t seem that she is quite close to actually resign”, Skoutaris pointed out, going on to ponder on the point made by May’s ministers:

“…one also has to wonder whether their reservations, their doubts, their vetoes that they have over the withdrawal agreement, is over principles, or over their personal ambition to get the highest position in the land”.

Meanwhile, according to Brian Jones, lecturer in law at the University of Dundee, May’s resignation rumours are much more substantiated this time than previous assumptions, “after her speech last week condemning MPs for not passing her Brexit agreement, which was largely seen as ill-timed and ill-mannered, and the fact that last night MPs defied a three-line whip to essentially take control of the Brexit process”.

“If she sets a date of departure, she would definitely get more members of the European Research Group, and potentially even the DUP [Democratic Unionist Party], to fall into line. The key for some holdouts is the DUP. If they don’t come on board, then there’s very little likelihood of her deal passing, especially after last night”, Jones described the scenario at length.

The academic also remarked it would be incorect to speak about May’s impeachment, since it’s impossible for the Tories to formally replace Mrs May until December 2019, citing the fact that she won a leadership challenge in December 2018, “and that secures her position, at least within the party, for one year,” Jones noted, not ruling out “other pressures involved.”/sputnik

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