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Shaping the Future in Albania: Civil society’s questions and answers to current issues

Conference Report

Cooperation and Development Institute participated in the workshop “Shaping the future of Albania” organized by the Southeast Europe Association (Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft) civil society activists from Albania – journalists, academics, young generation politicians and officials from administration – as well as German and international stakeholders – met in Munich.

They held a dialogue on Albania and its future under Chatham House Rules, looking for answers to the current issues surrounding Albania’s civil society and defining additional questions. The problems that persistently came up in the workshop, whatever the context, were those of EU membership perspectives, of persuasive corruption, of the lack of the rule of law, the need for reform, the question of Albanian nationalism and of economic development.