Western Balkans are sliding into a new geopolitical season. Will the EU be ready to react?

EU Integration

PAOLO QUERCIA Where are the Western Balkans while the world is locking-down?...

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For an Influential Europe – The Croatian EU Presidency

EU Integration

Just six and a half years after its historic entry into the EU, Croatia faces another historical challenge in the first half of 2020 –...

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Kosovo and Albania – Deconstruction of the Idea of Unification

Featured, Foreign Policy

During the last two years, the idea of the unification of Kosovo and Albania was among the most prominent issues in the public discourses...

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New Methodology for Running EU Accession Negotiations

EU Integration

European Union failed to decide to open accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania in October 2019, despite the positive...

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The 1913 Austrian-Hungarian humanitarian action in Shkodër

Security

Dr. KRISZTIÁN CSAPLÁR-DEGOVICS During the first Balkan war, Austria-Hungary conducted large-scale humanitarian actions in Albania, an...

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Minister Czaputowicz: In Poland, Albania has a firm ally, a committed supporter and a true friend

Foreign Policy

Interview with Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jacek Czaputowicz by Executive Director of AIIS, Alba Çela...

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Albania-Kosovo: How to Build a Strategic Agenda

Featured, Foreign Policy

It is time that Albania and Kosovo established a normal and indeed strategic agenda. But for this, it is first of all necessary for the...

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Hugh G. Grant – “I saw it all”

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ILIR IKONOMI In the summer of 2010, while doing research at the U.S. National Archives in College Park, Maryland, I came across a large...

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Albania-Serbia Relations: from Enthusiasm to Status Quo, from Status Quo to the False Promise of a Strategic Agenda

Foreign Policy

Although Albania’s role has diminished, and with Kosovo independence technically Albania can not be the mother-country for Kosovo’s...

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Early Parliamentary Development in Albania – A Brief Survey

Democracy

When a group of intellectuals, tribal leaders, and former Ottoman officials proclaimed the independence of Albania in November 1912, they...

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