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Editorial: The problem with newsless summits

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It has been a week of important international summits for Albania on paper. First, Western Balkan leaders met with key EU counterparts in London to discuss the region’s EU future as part of the Berlin Process. Then, NATO held its major annual gathering in Brussels. Both summits were attended by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama with a group of accompanying officials. The outcome of both were a lot of photos and statements repeated year over year of the importance of the region’s EU future of the transformative role of being under NATO’s security umbrella, etc. Important as these things might…

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