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Hard Talks
He built a publication in a language he does not fully speak, to cover a country the world largely ignores, with a team of volunteers working from laptops and smartphones. The idea came to him not in a Tirana office but in a hotel room in a distant country, reading a foreign magazine, thinking about …
Hard Talks
Albania’s new Foreign Minister spent his career inside the institutions the country now seeks to join. But as EU enlargement enters its most demanding phase, a parliamentary vote shields his former deputy prime minister from arrest, his prime minister co-signs a European initiative with a man who declared war on Albania days later, and Brussels …
Hard Talks
Everest employs around 700 workers and is expanding into the United States. As Albania moves toward EU integration, we ask CEO Sokol Çupi whether industrial growth is reinforcing institutions — or quietly outpacing them. by Elis Zenelaj (Tirana) Introduction Everest Sh.p.k. began in 1997. Today it operates one of Albania’s largest aluminum production platforms, …
