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    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      News in-depth
      Drugs, spies and cameras: Albania struggles to curb criminal gangs

      Prime Minister Edi Rama defends his record, but scandals abound in the small Balkan state

    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      Albanian gangs set up hundreds of spy cameras to keep ahead of police

      Illegal surveillance network shows power of organised crime in Balkan nation

    • Monday, 14 November, 2022
      News in-depthUK immigration
      How poverty and fake promises are luring Albanians to the UK

      Sophisticated social media campaigns entice young men from deprived rural areas to make hazardous journey

    • Wednesday, 2 November, 2022
      UK immigration
      Home Office reports surge in Albanians crossing by boat to England

      Fresh data fuel rhetoric around crisis over cross-Channel migration

    • Wednesday, 2 November, 2022
      Travel
      This winter’s most exciting ski destination: Albania’s Accursed Mountains

      Off limits for decades, the pristine peaks of the Valbona valley are now being explored by a fledgling heli-ski operation

    • Saturday, 20 August, 2022
      Europe Express
      Western neglect and homegrown troubles afflict the Balkans Premium content

      Nato and the EU have done well to contain rising tensions between Serbia and Kosovo, but deep-seated problems persist

    • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
      EU enlargement
      North Macedonia signals acceptance of plan to unlock EU membership talks

      Premier welcomes French proposals as potential basis for compromise on tensions with Bulgaria

    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
      EU enlargement
      Bulgaria vote buoys prospect of EU expansion into western Balkans

      MPs move to lift veto on accession talks but North Macedonia could reject conditions brokered by France

    • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
      EU enlargement
      Bulgarian government ousted in blow to EU enlargement hopes

      PM Petkov removed in confidence vote that threatens deal to lift veto on North Macedonia accession talks

    • Friday, 20 May, 2022
      Europe Express
      Ukraine war gathers support for Balkans’ EU membership bids Premium content

      Berlin throws its weight behind unblocking stalled enlargement process

    • Saturday, 7 May, 2022
      Travel
      The chefs who came in from the cold: a culinary tour of Albania

      As the shadow of communism fades, a new generation of cooks is rediscovering the country’s gastronomic heritage — and its potential

    • Monday, 28 March, 2022
      EU economy
      ECB supports Poland’s currency with €10bn financing deal

      Central bank agrees to help five European countries counter market fallout from Ukraine war

    • Friday, 4 February, 2022
      FT Weekend’s best long reads of 2022
      Lea Ypi: ‘For me, Marx is neither a saint nor the enemy’

      The Albanian author on her family’s ordeal under Hoxha, her ‘obsession’ with freedom — and what the free market gets wrong

    • Monday, 17 January, 2022
      EU enlargement
      Albania PM says western Balkans should ‘never give up’ on EU dream

      Edi Rama aims dig at bloc’s politicians for being too influenced by nationalist pressures

    • Friday, 14 January, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Albania diary: from hermit state to haven

      It is 30 years since Alec Russell’s last visit to the country — and the welcome extended to Afghan refugees shows how far it has come since the fall of communism

    • Thursday, 18 November, 2021
      UK immigration
      Albania criticises ‘fake news’ over UK asylum hub report

      Prime minister says he would ‘never’ allow ‘very rich’ nations to set up camps

    • Wednesday, 13 October, 2021
      FT Books Essay
      Free, and Mud Sweeter than Honey — Albania’s curse after communism

      Two books champion rarely heard voices to chart the chaos and convulsions that blighted the country throughout the cold war and beyond

    • Wednesday, 28 July, 2021
      EU enlargement
      Balkan trio push ‘mini-Schengen’ as they hit out at EU membership delay

      Serbia, Albania and North Macedonia to launch own border-free travel and business zone amid frustration with Brussels

    • Monday, 5 July, 2021
      Markets InsightRobin Wigglesworth
      Albanian lessons for regulators nervously eyeing the crypto world

      Albania’s 1990s pyramid scheme debacle highlights risks of regulatory paralysis on the cryptocurrency explosion

    • Thursday, 13 May, 2021
      Interview
      Albania is ‘growing up’, says twice re-elected premier Edi Rama

      April 25 elections were smoother than 2019, but belied growing political polarisation

    • Monday, 26 April, 2021
      Tony Barber
      The baleful phantom of border changes haunts the Balkans

      Instability and antagonisms pervade the region a quarter of a century after the Yugoslav wars

    • Monday, 23 March, 2020
      EU enlargement
      North Macedonia and Albania set to begin EU accession talks

      Compromise deal to be sealed as Brussels seeks to strengthen ties with western Balkans

    • Monday, 3 February, 2020
      Valerie Hopkins
      Albanians wonder if the EU will ever welcome them

      The aftershock of a diplomatic earthquake over accession will take time to subside

    • Sunday, 17 November, 2019
      EU foreign policy
      Russian envoy praises Macron stance on EU enlargement

      Chizhov remarks set to further anger critics who say French leader risks undermining bloc

    • Friday, 8 November, 2019
      EU enlargement
      Von der Leyen defies Macron over Balkans EU accession

      Incoming EC president warns Russia and China are ready to step into the gap

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