Agim Nesho
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- Party
- otherFrom the research record · cites:
- Soros v Trump: Socialists targets conservatives in upcoming European nation's election (opens in a new tab)Fox News · 16 Apr 2025 · journalism · EN
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- Meet Ramaduro: Europe's progressive, Soros-trained autocrat and enemy of Trumpism (Fox News opinion) (opens in a new tab)Fox News · 21 Jun 2025 · political-statement · EN
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Profile
Agim Nesho is a former Albanian ambassador who is quoted by Fox News in April 2025 making several political claims about Rama, Alex Soros and Soros-linked funding. He is described as an ally of the opposition camp in that article. The claims are his own, and the article cites no documents for them.
Response from Agim Nesho
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Other accounts in the research (3 fields worded differently)
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- Biography
- Agim Nesho is a former Albanian ambassador who is quoted by Fox News in April 2025 making several political claims about Rama, Alex Soros and Soros-linked funding. He is described as an ally of the opposition camp in that article. The claims are his own, and the article cites no documents for them.From the research record
- Former Albanian ambassador who wrote a Fox News opinion piece on 21 June 2025 calling Rama 'a former disciple of George Soros and the Open Society' and describing Rama's Balkan agenda as 'the Soros-backed Open Balkan initiative'. He also described the May 2025 election as a clash between 'Trump-ists' and 'Soros-ists' (search summary of Fox coverage).From the research record
- Legal status detail
- Not researched.From the research record
- Not checked in this slice.From the research record
- Response
- None found.From the research record
- Not found in this slice.From the research record
Related cases
Sorted by reported money, then by linked people and their legal status. The money figure is the largest single reported figure, not a total.
From 2013
Allegations that Open Society influenced the 2016 Albanian justice reform and the government
Opposition politicians, some commentators and several conservative US outlets say that Open Society Foundation Albania (OSFA) and wider Soros-linked funding shaped the 2016 constitutional justice…
Status: Unresolved. Allegations are made by partisan actors and advocacy groups. No court, prosecutor or official body has found that OSF directed the reform.
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Connections
Open the map →Nesho calls Rama a 'former disciple' of Soros (opinion, 2025)
Evidence: Fox News op-ed, 21 June 2025: opinion characterisation; the documented Rama-Soros contacts are in.
What they said vs. what the documents show
What was said · 16 Apr 2025
Rama's Socialists were backed by 'rich left-wing donors like Alex Soros, Rama's close friend', plus USAID and Open Society judicial reform; 'Soros allies profit from keeping Rama in power'; Rama runs a 'narco-state' that controls elections; the last three elections were unfair.
Speaker: Agim Nesho
Soros v Trump: Socialists targets conservatives in upcoming European nation's election (opens in a new tab)Fox News · 16 Apr 2025 · journalism · EN
What the documents show
The documented facts are the close personal contacts between Alex Soros and Rama (posts and reported dinners). No record in the sources reviewed shows that Alex Soros or any Soros entity funded Rama's party or campaigns. The 'narco-state' and election claims cite no evidence.
- Alex Soros Praises PM Rama as Inspiring World Leader (opens in a new tab)Albanian Daily News · 3 Sep 2021 · journalism · EN
What was said · 21 Jun 2025
'A former disciple of George Soros and the Open Society, Rama has transformed himself into a political chameleon'; 'a product of Soros's post-communist influence in Eastern Europe'; Rama advancing 'the Soros-backed Open Balkan initiative'.
Speaker: Agim Nesho
Meet Ramaduro: Europe's progressive, Soros-trained autocrat (Fox News opinion) (opens in a new tab)Fox News · 21 Jun 2025 · political-statement · EN
What the documents show
Documented: Rama attended a Soros meeting in Tirana in 2005 and a reported working dinner with Soros in December 2014 (Tirana Times;. The word 'disciple' is an opinion characterisation; the sources read show no documented training or employment in the Soros network. The op-ed gives no source for the 'Soros-backed' description of Open Balkan.
- Berisha, Fleckenstein clash over Soros role (Tirana Times) (opens in a new tab)Tirana Times · 2016 or 2017 · journalism · EN
Timeline
Media
Agim Nesho's Fox News op-ed calls Rama a Soros 'disciple'
Opinion piece by a former Albanian ambassador describing Rama as a former disciple of George Soros and the Open Society and the Open Balkan initiative as Soros-backed. No evidence cited in the part read.
Linked: Agim Nesho · Edi Rama · George Soros
Sources for this record
Every source the research cites for this record, grouped by its source label. 4 sources.
Source label: UnverifiedUnverified · 4 sources
- Publisher
- Fox News
- Date
- 16 Apr 2025
- Publisher
- Fox News
- Date
- 21 Jun 2025
- Publisher
- Albanian Daily News
- Date
- 3 Sep 2021
- Publisher
- Tirana Times
- Date
- 2016 or 2017