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Washington’s reported lifting of the U.S. travel ineligibility measure against Albania’s former president and prime minister reopens one of the most controversial chapters in U.S.-Albanian relations at a moment when Albania’s streets are demanding an end to the old post-communist order. Tirana Times, June 11, 2026 – For Sali Berisha, few words could carry more symbolism than the ones he chose outside Albania’s parliament: “I returned.” The former president, former prime minister and current opposition leader was responding to reports that the U.S. State Department had lifted the travel ineligibility measure imposed on him in 2021. In Albania, the decision…