Albania has a recent history of welcoming refugees fleeing conflict and poverty, temporarily hosting around 4,000 Afghans in 2020.

Conrad Landin unpacks the changing economic and political landscape of the rapidly developing Southeastern European country. Declining economic growth and weakened labour markets have coincided with ...

Until recently, few refugees chose poverty-stricken Albania as a pit stop on their perilous trek towards wealthy EU countries. But with the so-called western Balkan migrant trail now shut, the ...

European leaders descend on Albania on Friday for a meeting sure to be dominated by the war in Ukraine, but small Balkan countries hope talk of EU enlargement will also feature at the European ...

The route out of poverty begins with poverty. As readers can imagine about the Albanians who reached Greece in big numbers in the '90s and '00s, they mostly did menial work. What choice did they have?

2000-12-18 04:00:00 PDT Tirana, Albania-- Ten years after Albania became the last country in Eastern Europe to rebel against its communist leaders, it remains the poorest, most unstable and law ...

Europe’s wealth disparity was stark in 2024, with several countries facing severe economic challenges. While many European ...

Looking to curb migration to Italy, Meloni signed a deal with Albania last year to send some asylum-seekers to the Balkan country and process the asylum requests there.

Teenagers in one of Albania's most deprived areas have not given up on their dreams of migrating to Britain, despite UK taxpayers funding an £8.4m programme to encourage them to stay at home. The ...

Italy had welcomed thousands of Albanians fleeing poverty after the fall of communism more than three decades ago, and Albania’s current government wanted to pay back the Italians’ hospitality.

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