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Albania risks falling further behind in its bid to join the EU. The European Union has warned Albania that it will fall even further behind in its bid to join the EU if...

Testing the value of two hoary old clichés about the importance of keeping the European Union engaged in the western Balkans. Just because something is a...

There is a general feeling in Brussels that Albania belongs  with the most troubled would-be members of the European Union, Kosovo and Bosnia, even though, unlike...

Van Rompuy's whistlestop tour. Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, made a whistlestop trip to the Balkans this week: Montenegro and Macedonia on...

The astonishing endurance of Sali Berisha. On 19 May, Sali Berisha, Albania's prime minister, received a threatening letter. Since Albanian politics has always been a...

EU foreign ministers ask Commission for formal opinion on the opening of talks.

A book sends identity politics in south-eastern Europe into overdrive and treads roughly on sensitive toes. It is normally hard to get excited about encyclopaedias. Indeed,...

Albania has an awful long way to go before becoming an EU member. Albania submitted its application for membership of the European Union on 28 April this year, at the end of...

Voting still ongoing, but European enlargement commissioner welcomes 'tangible' results in election process. European Union representatives have given a cautious approval to...

Exit polls suggest Democrats are heading for victory. Albania's Democratic Party of Prime Minister Sali Berisha was ahead of the main opposition Socialists in yesterday's...

Albania's elections may be far from optimal and political rivalries may be bitterly divisive, but the country has changed deeply. Once again, Albania's reputation, its...

Polls put Democratic Party only slightly ahead of the Socialists. Opinion polls put Albania's ruling Democratic Party of Prime Minister Sali Berisha slightly ahead of the...

Albania is the only country in recent European history that had to be propped up by a peacetime military intervention: in 1997, when the collapse of pyramid selling schemes...

In the face of considerable political opposition, Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn yesterday (8 November) set out the case for further expansion of the EU. Presenting the...

When José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, said in September that it would be “unwise” to proceed with any more enlargements after Romania...

The Prime Minister of Albania Sali Berisha is determined that his country should join the European Union in 2012, despite widespread scepticism in Brussels. "Albania will...

It may not have been exactly smooth, but for the first time since the fall of communism, power in Albania has changed hands peacefully. This is great news - Western...

EVENTS in Albania overshadowed the main items on the agenda of the two-day meeting. A Dutch presidency statement had to be put on iceovernight while ministersawaited...

EU DIPLOMATS are considering informal proposals to appoint a ‘roving ambassador' to Albania, according to European Commission sources. They suggest that, with rebel forces...