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Published in: 50.50I’m more afraid of Albania’s police than the virusI collect trash to survive but the curfew makes it hard to go out. They demolished our market, and I’m afraid my...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?EU solidarity in the time of coronavirusMany of the region’s politicians are now beginning to wonder out loud – and often opportunistically – just what the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Balkans and the meaning of nowhereIn To the Lake, Bulgarian writer Kapka Kassabova takes an evocative journey through Balkan borderlands, enchanting...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Balkans Brexit falloutSome may wish the EU would simply honour its earlier commitment to integrate the Balkans region, but the time for...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The five 'infections' of the social democratic 'family' in the Western BalkansSocial democracy is failing all across Europe; but it's impotence in the Balkans especially is having serious...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaBunkers: the nature of power and democracyOn occasion of the publication of “Bunkers” by Manuel Montobbio, a book on the totalitarian experience, we propose a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Enver Hoxha: the lunatic who took over the asylumEnver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania tells the extraordinary story of how one man held an entire country hostage...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The insufferable ease of nationalism in the BalkansThe recent Serbia-Albania football match was like a microcosm of the twenty-first century Balkans: lots of intense,...
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Published in: 50.50Haki Stërmilli’s 'If I Were a Boy': the first Albanian feminist manifestoHaki Stërmilli 1936 novel If I Were a Boy portrays the contemporary problems of Albanian society that stem from a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Hoxha's final heartbeatSixty miles north, in the rocky and desolate Spaç labor camp, political prisoners watched the ceremony from wooden...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Albania: between a rock and a hard placeA recent spate of terrorist attacks in Albania has drawn virtually no international attention. But the consequences...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Should Serbia vs Albania have gone ahead in the first place?Were UEFA being dangerously naive when they allowed Serbia and Albania to be drawn into the same qualifying group?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Putting politics on the pitch: UEFA's failed response to Serbia-AlbaniaInstead of bringing the focus back to sports, UEFA’s decision about the abandoned Albania-Serbia game has given an...
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Published in: HomeWomen in prison: the particular impact of prison conditionsOn life in prison generally, the most common complaints across five countries were about hygiene and space.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The EU: wider and deeper with the BalkansThe post-1945 system is today overtaken by events and a new world order is about to emerge. This new—quite...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The future of the past: why the end of Yugoslavia is still importantA new socialist model is emerging in the western Balkans. Can its political vocabulary transcend the ethno-national...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Dynamic security: political change bad news for the women in Albania’s prisons
Albania has been leading the Balkan region in its management of women prisoners – a complex group to detain and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?How to write about the BalkansA handy guide for journalists on how to write about this mysterious and brooding region.
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Published in: HomeAn Albanian crossing borders
“Are you saying that Le Pen has a branch even in Albania?!” – intervened the one who had found the envelope. “Yes,...
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Published in: HomePostcard from Albania, December 2012
Interestingly the change-over in 1991 is described by many as the ‘arrival of democracy’, but there is little...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Street opera during lockdown
