Articles tagged with: Albania
Q&A: Marta Kos wants people to understand enlargement is about security
01 Apr Member States
Q&A: Marta Kos wants people to understand enlargement is about security
The EU's enlargement commissioner discussed how the European Union is helping neighboring countries counter Russian disinformation, the prospects for a new wave of accessions and why expansion is central to the bloc's security.
Albania moves closer to EU membership as Socialists win new mandate
13 May 25 Foreign & Security Policy
Albania moves closer to EU membership as Socialists win new mandate
Prime Minister Edi Rama’s victory will consolidate Albania’s pro-EU trajectory, but rule of law deficits still pose hurdles to accession.
Hydropower in Albania: vanishing rivers strangle rural life
22 Jan 24
Hydropower in Albania: vanishing rivers strangle rural life
Hydroelectricity was meant to be part of the environmental solution. But in Albania, EU-funded hydroplants have created new challenges, Arlis Alikaj and The Parliament staff report
Albania’s first solar village aims for energy self-sufficiency
15 Mar 23 Energy & Environment
Albania’s first solar village aims for energy self-sufficiency
Welcome to Kutë, a citizen energy community born out of the successful struggle to halt construction of a hydropower dam. But how much autonomy can this collective really establish?
Albanian academic and author Lea Ypi’s memoir recalls a childhood under Uncle Enver and how communism’s collapse turned her life and worldview upside down
14 Jul 22
Albanian academic and author Lea Ypi’s memoir recalls a childhood under Uncle Enver and how communism’s collapse turned her life and worldview upside down
As a child, Lea Ypi embraced Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha's paranoid Stalinist regime with full enthusiam, unaware of her family's secret political heritage. In her memoir, she recalls an adolescence abruptly interrupted by Hoxhaism's collapse and the ideological and geopolitical turmoil that ensued.