Albania has emerged as a new EU accession frontrunner among Western Balkan states, Andreas Schieder, the European ...

Ham-handed State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) interventions have also transformed one of the most promising economies in the Balkans into a narco-state.

His hoped-for Muslim state in Tirana, Albania’s capital, will be a Vatican-style sovereign enclave controlling territory about the size of five New York City blocks, ...

For example, following World War I, the country was divided among neighboring states by European superpowers, and after World War II, Albania was devastated by Nazi German and Italian forces.