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Trump’s anti-EU rhetoric haunts Albanian election

A worsening showdown across the Atlantic could spell trouble for the candidate country.

April 15, 2025 6:23 pm CET

Frontex: Illegal crossings into Europe down one third in a year

As Europe harshens migration rules, nearly 34,000 fewer people attempted to enter the EU illegally in the first three months of 2025 compared to 2024.

April 11, 2025 4:00 am CET

Europe cracks down on migration. The far right is cheering.

The EU’s new plan gets tough on deportations to outflank the continent’s surging populists. Instead, it might just be fueling their narrative.

March 11, 2025 6:56 pm CET

Albania to block TikTok in the coming days

Ban follows fatal stabbing of a 14-year-old that may have been linked to arguments on social media.

March 7, 2025 4:16 am CET

Trump’s return freezes Western cyber plans to counter Russia, China

Allies are left hanging on cyber initiatives and funding. It leaves a vacuum for adversaries, officials warn.

February 12, 2025 11:43 am CET

Serbia and Albania to co-host European football tournament despite tensions

Football matches have been an arena for nationalist chest-thumping between aggrieved Serbs and Albanians in recent years.

February 4, 2025 7:45 pm CET

Meloni’s Albania migration plan blasted after 3rd failure

Calling the project a “clamorous failure,” Elly Schlein, leader of the Democratic Party, said the prime minister should resign.

February 1, 2025 3:45 pm CET

Italy’s Meloni defends Musk and Trump in rare press conference — 5 takeaways

PM says her relationship with U.S. president-elect is “very solid” and insists his recent incendiary remarks flow from a “peace-through-strength” approach.

January 9, 2025 9:15 pm CET

Albania’s TikTok ban raises rule of law questions

Planned nationwide embargo on TikTok is an “abuse of power” and will suppress free speech, opposition warns.

January 8, 2025 4:29 am CET

Meloni’s Albanian migrant detention centers are now ghost towns

The much-touted solution to Europe’s migration crisis houses only Italian police — who have taken to adopting stray dogs and sunbathing.

January 2, 2025 4:00 am CET

The biggest battles headed for Brussels

What the European Union will be squabbling about in the Commission’s upcoming term.

January 1, 2025 1:30 am CET

Teen’s murder drives Albania to ban TikTok for a year 

Prime Minister Edi Rama blamed the Chinese-owned platform for inciting violence after a schoolboy was stabbed to death.

December 22, 2024 1:28 pm CET
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December 16, 2024 5:00 am CET

EU to propose new migration rules in latest rightward shift

One of the policies under discussion is restricting the freedom of movement of migrants set for deportation.

December 2, 2024 2:43 pm CET

Giorgia Meloni’s vendetta against Italy’s judges

The right-wing prime minister has a “strategy” to discredit, frighten and silence critics, from the media to the judiciary, says a famous Italian journalist.

November 13, 2024 4:00 am CET

Meloni’s Albania scheme hits another bump in the road

Rome made a deal with Tirana to detain up to 36,000 people a year, but courts have sent migrants back to Italy for a second time.

November 12, 2024 4:10 pm CET

5 things to know about migration czar Magnus Brunner’s European Parliament hearing

Treading carefully, Austria’s pick for commissioner pledged new legislation for migration — and little more.

November 6, 2024 1:35 am CET

Love Trump? Hate MAGA? Where to escape if your team loses the US election.

We’ve pulled together a handy list of European safe spaces if you need to eject from America after Tuesday’s vote.

November 1, 2024 4:01 am CET

Italy’s Meloni seeks to save Albania migration deal after court setback

Rome’s flagship scheme to send migrants to offshore detention centers in Albania has hit an immediate legal hurdle.

October 21, 2024 10:28 pm CET

Albania’s former president arrested on corruption allegations

Relations between the country’s former president and current PM have deteriorated.

October 21, 2024 7:30 pm CET

Germany arrests Libyan suspected of planning terror attack on Israeli embassy

Detention of Libyan man suspected of links to Islamic State threatens to further fan the debate over immigration.

October 20, 2024 1:25 pm CET

12 migrants sent to Albania for processing are returned to Italy

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to convene a Cabinet meeting on Monday to address the issue. 

October 19, 2024 5:08 pm CET

Rome court rules offshore detention of migrants in Albania illegal

All 16 migrants set to be returned from Albania to Italy after their countries of origin deemed unsafe.

October 18, 2024 4:35 pm CET

The world is in crisis and the EU is doing … nothing?

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October 18, 2024 4:00 am CET
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