The killing of 25-year-old Klodian Rasha by the police in the early hours of 8 December had brought the youth of the peripheries into the streets of the Albanian capital for four consecutive days.
The Balkan Society for Theory and Practice (BSTP) recently published a special issue of Feminist Critique: “Breaking with Transition: Decolonial and Postcolonial Perspectives in Eastern Europe”, in collaboration with Feminist Critique Journal. This issue is the result of the presentations at the 2018 BSTP workshop, supported by transform! europe.
Fall 2019 was quite an intense and fruitful period for the young and new activists specially among students. More students were coming back to the capital to the University of Tirana from their hometowns, the academic year is about to start and so is the ongoing struggle.
Albanian students are protesting en masse against a new hike in tuition fees in one of the poorest countries of the continent. While the medium wage in Albania is 350 euros per month, the tuition fees can go up to 2000 euros per year. The government wanted to make students pay for retake exams but...
Die Parlamentswahl in Albanien hielt für nahezu alle Überraschungen bereit: Während die regierende Sozialistische Partei einen Erdrutschsieg verbuchen konnte, erlebte die Demokratische Partei ein Debakel. Und die Wahlbeteiligung erreichte ein historisches Tief.
Nach der Veröffentlichung des letzten EU-Fortschrittsberichts über Albanien ist eine intensive Diskussion über die Beitrittsaussichten des Landes ausgebrochen. Auch bei den politischen Parteien steht das Thema – unabhängig von ihrer Größe oder Ausrichtung – weit oben auf der politischen Agenda.
The Institute for Critique and Social Emancipation Tirana (ICSE), a partner organisation of transform! europe, is hosting a lecture followed by a discussion on the history, ideologies, developments and challenges of welfare state models in the Western world, with an outlook on the possible future of the Albanian welfare state.