Eurasia News

W hat Albania is experiencing today is not merely a crisis of government. It is a crisis of a political system that, for years, has worked to concentrate power, restrict political competition, and distance citizens from decision-making. The roots of this crisis can be traced, in significant part, to 21 April 2008[ 2 ], when constitutional amendments adopted at the eleventh hour fundamentally altered the architecture of political representation in Albania. That day, it was not merely a matter of changing a few articles of the Constitution. The rules of the political game were changed. And when those who hold power are also in a position to rewrite the rules governing its exercise, the first question must be straightforward: who gained more power, and who lost the ability to hold that power in check? The answer leads us to a problem that has become increasingly difficult to ignore: the concentration of power in the hands of party leaders, the weakening of Parliament as an institution of ...

  T he recent release of files related to  Jeffrey Epstein  did not shake the world because they revealed something entirely unknown. They shook it because they confirmed, with documentary coldness, a truth usually spoken only in whispers: that absolute power does not live within common morality, but creates a parallel morality of its own. Their publication is not a moment of scandal. It is a moment of moral exposure. Not because it introduces new faces, but because it briefly strips away the most persistent myth of the modern order: the belief that great power coexists with responsibility. In reality, the higher power ascends, the thinner morality becomes, until at the summit it does not disappear, it simply becomes unnecessary. In this sense, the Epstein files are not a scandal. The scandal is that we still call them scandals. They are merely temporary cracks in the thick curtain of an order that long ago abandoned the notion of guilt. What comes to light is not crime, ...