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Albania and Greece: Fuel for friendship and not for burning flags

By Jerina Zaloshnja The public disclosure of video footage showing Greek soldiers undergoing training chanting a song which speaks about how the Greeks will slaughter Albanians and what they will do with their intestines and other organs, reminded me of

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Don’t trust me!

By Jerina Zaloshnja One of the possible scenarios that Tirana Times made public in predicting the outcome of the local elections was that both the Government and the Opposition would claim their own victory. This can happen in local government

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Why the elections were (not) a missed opportunity

By Albert Rakipi Although the local government elections were considered by most observers as democratic and peaceful, international observers still considered them a “missed opportunity for Albania.” This verdict suggests the need to explore the reasons why a relatively peaceful

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Count-down towards what?

By Jerina Zaloshnja The end of the election campaign is in sight. In two days time, the Albanians will be voting to revive the bodies of local autonomy. The western style campaigns of both political blocs, of the Government and

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Elections, No news is (not always) good news!

Although news and debates on the upcoming local government elections have already monopolized public debates in the media, three very important issues relating to the process rather than the outcome of elections have been relegated to the margins of the

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Elections, Battle in Tirana but not for Tirana

By Jerina Zaloshnja The electoral campaign has barely started and it is already clear that the real battle will occur in Tirana. The political in these electionsءs opposed to the administrativeسtands particularly in the characteristics of the Tirana battlefield. The

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Time for a New Agreement

Finally, the government and opposition reached an agreement that ended the two month old political crisis on electoral reform. Although this crisis was not new, its intensity was surprising and entirely absurd in the manner it blocked the political process

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Elections: Don’t do it!

Although the President has decreed 20 January as the day of the administrative elections, the Opposition, adopting a decision in extremis has declared that it will boycott these elections. The Opposition bases its decision not to participate in the elections

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Game of Chicken

Hoodlums and superpowers often engage in the game of chicken. It works something like this: two people drive their cars towards each other and the one that swerves first to avoid a collision loses. The optimal outcome is clear: you

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Albania, neither a nation, nor an Islamic state

By Jerina Zaloshnja Professor Klarisa De Wal, at the University of Cambridge, a fine connoisseur of the Balkans, in her last book for Albania Today, writes that the first foreigners to visit Albania following the collapse of communism thought that

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