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Editorial: The Albanian government in Wonderland

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL As the year 2020 slowly rolls in, the Albanian reality and the Albanian government could not be more separated from each other, each operating in an exclusive dynamics with little tangential contact if any. Battered by a paralyzing political crisis, a low quality facade democracy with little institutional substance, a stagnant economy and withdrawing international investments, and struck by a terrible natural disaster hat left thousands homeless, Albania is definitely not on its feet, its crawling on the ground. To top this off, Albania was just referred to by Iranian authorities, as a “devilish little place” where…

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