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Albanian General Elections 2025: Out with the Old, In with the Same?

Published: 18 February 2025

On May 11, 2025, Albania will hold parliamentary elections, the first since officially opening EU accession negotiations. While some significant changes mark this election—most notably, diaspora voting and partial candidate list openness—major systemic factors remain unchanged. The Socialist Party (SP), in power since 2013, appears poised for an unprecedented fourth mandate.

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Migration Policy: European Union Increasingly Outsources Responsibility for Asylum

Published: 15 October 2024

Analysis

Externalisation is increasingly seen as a lever for solving the EU’s migration issues, yet poses serious legal, ethical and practical problems.

By Judith Kohlenberger

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Germany Calling

Published: 13 December 2024

E-Paper

Germany is dependent on labour migration from the Western Balkans. However, the emigration of young, educated people in particular is slowing down both economic and democratic progress in the region.

By Anja Troelenberg and Franziska Tschinderle

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In his book, author Vedran Horvat takes a personal journey through the last two decades of politics in the Western Balkans and sheds light on the potential of green politics under extremely difficult conditions.

By Vedran Horvat

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Shrinking spaces in the Western Balkans

Published: 15 December 2016

Without civic engagement and participation, democratization cannot succeed. This publication sheds light on the complex mechanisms of shrinking spaces in the Western Balkans, provides analyses, and develops adequate countermeasures.

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Albania

Articles

Albanian General Elections 2025: Out with the Old, In with the Same?

Migration Policy: European Union Increasingly Outsources Responsibility for Asylum

Tirana Office – Albania

Tirana 2020: No Remembrance, No Discourse

“I want this state to succeed first”

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Germany Calling

Here, at last

Shrinking spaces in the Western Balkans

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