Albania | openDemocracy

Published in: Can Europe Make It?

Published on: 28 August 2013

Written by: Lily Lynch All articles by Lily Lynch

A handy guide for journalists on how to write about this mysterious and brooding region.

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Published on: 20 March 2013

Written by: Besnik Mustafaj All articles by Besnik Mustafaj

“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 on: 27 December 2012

Written by: Seera Marston All articles by Seera Marston

Interestingly the change-over in 1991 is described by many as the ‘arrival of democracy’, but there is little...

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Published on: 11 May 2011

Written by: Bashkim Shehu All articles by Bashkim Shehu

There are particularities of fear in a post-communist Europe bewildered by the demands of neoliberalism, which also...

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Published on: 7 February 2011

Written by: Nikolaj Nielsen All articles by Nikolaj Nielsen

On 21 January, three people died when the Republican Guard opened fire on protesters in front of the Prime...

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Published on: 10 June 2010

Written by: Bernd Fischer All articles by Bernd Fischer

Albania’s iron communist regime survived until 1990, five years after the death of its great dictator, Enver Hoxha....

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Published on: 5 January 2010

Written by: Sarah Haaij All articles by Sarah Haaij

Hoxha's bunkers remind Albanian's of the destructive paranoia of their recent past. But they are being re-used and...

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