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European media: Albanian youth has risen up against autocrats!
2026-08-24 12:54:00 / POLITIKË
International media continue to focus on the civic youth movement, which has been taking place in Tirana for nearly three months.
The French newspaper 'L'Humanite' writes that from Serbia to Albania, the youth of the Balkans are rising up against autocratic regimes in the region.
The newspaper highlights that a new wave of protests is sweeping the Balkans, with young people at the center of mobilizations against the way of governance and what they consider to be excessive concentration of power.
From Serbia to Albania, the protests are showing a common character: a new generation that no longer wants to automatically accept the traditional way of exercising power in the region.
In Serbia, youth mobilization has taken on large proportions and has been accompanied by demands for political accountability, transparency, and institutional change. Protesters have directly challenged the rule of Aleksandar Vučić and demanded that institutions be held accountable for issues that have sparked widespread public outrage.
In Albania, meanwhile, protests against the government of Edi Rama have continued with demands for the resignation of the prime minister. The ongoing mobilization shows that the dissatisfaction is not limited to a specific episode, but is linked to a broader debate about the way power and democracy function in the country.
What unites these developments is the role of the younger generation. Balkan youth are using social media, horizontal organizing, and street protest to create new forms of political pressure, often outside traditional party structures.
Meanwhile, the Swiss newspaper 'Tagblatt' emphasizes that the Flamingo Revolution in Albania is not stopping.
The newspaper notes that the protests began in late May, initially over a tourism project in the Vjosa-Narta area and the island of Sazan, a territory of special natural importance. Flamingos standing in the lagoon have become a symbol of the protest, hence the name "Flamingo Revolution".
But protesters say the issue now goes beyond environmental protection. Daily demonstrations in Tirana have called for transparency, the fight against corruption and the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama. The protests have brought together young people, families, students and citizens from all walks of life.
The protests have thus gone from a local opposition to a tourism project to a broader civic revolt, where decision-making, the use of public land, the protection of natural resources, and government accountability are at the center.
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