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Albania: struggling slowly for European integration

By Toby Vogel
28.08.2008 / 00:00 CET
Albania is the only country in recent European history that had to be propped up by a peacetime military intervention: in 1997, when the collapse of pyramid selling schemes led to a popular revolt that ousted the government and brought the country to the brink of civil war. Order had to be restored by a UN peace force under Italian leadership.

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