A cover to shut off the criticism.

Some diplomats, the OSCE, international media freedom associations and Albanian human rights associations are in vain falling back to voice, against the draconian law Edi Rama has drafted for online media.

This draft, already adopted in the Council of Ministers, envisions huge fines (over 8 thousand euros) that equal bankruptcy of a low-budget media and with Fdzic financing. But if that isn't enough, the law gives AMA (Albanian media authority) the right to order the removal of news, to take the fine money without a court decision, on behalf of the fight against false news.

This is not actually a surprise movement by Eddie Rama to control and the new media, mainly run by journalists, just as it controls four-five single TV owners in the country.

In 2015, he withdrew following strong international pressure from the idea of restoring the defamation penalty from the Penal Code, which envisioned prison for journalists. Shortly thereafter, it drafted a draft strict law to include media activity within online trading. In addition to insults, insults and contempt for journalists, he added, in secret, to the fiscal package last year, the tax on advertising, only for online media, leading from zero (as TVs and newspapers still have) to 20%, to alternative expectations measures with financial ones.

For several months the pressure is even greater. Endeavours published by the BILD, tender scandals with false documents uncovered by the media, parliament filled with red tape from a false opposition, and the organisation of local monoparty elections have made the printing of any source of free and independent information more acutely.

Right, in this context, almost finished the attempts to close the show “Unexposed”, which only last season, broadcast the first Daku Dako Avdylaj surveillance and new ring tender.

The soft pressure hasn't saved a much more neutral and balanced program like “Opinion”. Edi Rama, his press chief, Andrew Fuga and Angel Agac, have exerted pressure during a dinner after the Padam restaurant, against journalist Blendi Fevziu, asking less of the opposition's presence, less echoing its topics, and also reminding them that it runs in the opposite direction with benefits the owner of television.

It was, in this context, that efforts were announced to revive the very dear anti-fabric package from Edi Rama, which wants to dry out even those small freedoms that arose in the Albanian media landscape in recent years.

To that end, the OSCE, the International Journalists' Associations and any senior European diplomat have immediately raised their voices.

But their approach, as weak as it is, looks as naïve.

Since Albania has today's problem, it is not that of an authoritarian leader who seeks to fight insult and slander through a draconian package and measures that are at the borders of legitimacy.

The real problem is that we are falling towards a dictatorial regime, with a single-coloured parliament and elections where they vote and win a single party.

In such a situation, when everything is rolling toward monism, it is unthinkable to walk in parallel with free media and independent justice. The first is doomed to destroy the latter. The world knows no case, when personal power, arbitrary division of public money, vote and tender have co-existed with a fair justice system and professional media.

Therefore, no matter how many supporters may appear, the sad remarks and protests that have been heard against the <x0->anti libel” are not a solution. Because, in our new situation, the question is no longer the dilemma of how power violence against free media will be eased, but if it's possible to have one, along with the dictatorship that is trying to be installed.

For that very reason, without sharing the attitude toward the quarscoccus towards which the country is gaining the Renaissance, it is dontuous to hope that you can reach the compromise of a peaceful era between it and the press.