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    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

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

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

    • Monday, 4 November, 2019
      EU enlargement
      Balkan leaders warn that EU accession delay risks stoking tensions

      Albania and North Macedonia say reforms and name deal with Greece could be under threat

    • Friday, 23 March, 2018
      EU enlargement
      Albania urges quick start to EU membership talks

      Premier Edi Rama says Brussels needs to beware of Moscow’s influence in region

    • Tuesday, 27 June, 2017
      World
      Albania’s pro-EU Socialists on course for election victory

      Poll seen as test of country’s commitment to reducing corruption

    • Monday, 26 June, 2017
      World
      Albania’s Socialists set to win parliamentary election
    • Thursday, 22 June, 2017
      World
      Election set to shape Albania’s relationship with the EU

      In Europe’s second-poorest country, the pace of reform remains in doubt

    • Thursday, 15 June, 2017
      beyondbricsEU enlargement
      Albania shows EU enlargement is far from over

      Prime minister Edi Rama, a ‘third way’ social democrat, has sympathy of Brussels

    • Friday, 12 May, 2017
      beyondbricsEU enlargement
      EU cannot ignore Albania’s descent into disorder

      June elections are last chance for country and region to reverse spiral into violence

    • Friday, 17 July, 2015
      Life & Arts
      The art of nation-building in Albania

      Albania’s PM has crayons in his office and once insisted that buildings be painted in bright colours. Peter Aspden meets a leader in thrall to the power of art

    • Friday, 3 July, 2015
      The World blogTony Barber
      If EU shuns Albania radical Islam beckons
    • Tuesday, 21 October, 2014
      beyondbricsAndrew MacDowall
      Serbian Albanian détente postponed, not cancelled, after footballing farce
    • Wednesday, 4 June, 2014
      EU enlargement
      EU poised to accept Albania as membership candidate
    • Monday, 16 December, 2013
      Global Economy
      Transition delayed

      Despite economic gains across the region, many fear that integration has now slowed

    • Wednesday, 26 June, 2013
      World
      Albania premier accepts election defeat

      Concession marks first untainted poll since Stalinist era

    • Friday, 21 June, 2013
      EU enlargement
      Edi Rama aims to unseat old enemy as Albanians head to polls
    • Thursday, 10 March, 2011
      Occupy protests
      Mideast-style protests hit south-east Europe
    • Monday, 24 January, 2011
      World
      Leaders trade blame for Albania’s strife
    • Sunday, 22 November, 2009
      World
      Albanian opposition to boycott Parliament
    • Sunday, 5 July, 2009
      World
      Albanian Democratic party set for second term
    • Monday, 29 June, 2009
      World
      Albania’s election tighter-than-expected
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