Bulletin n. 1/2009
July 2009
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Marchat Philippe
    L'Albanie, pays des aigles..., candidat à l'adhésion ?
    in Revue de l'Union européenne/Revue du Marché Commun et de l'Union européenne , n. 527, avril ,  2009 ,  236-245
    Albania, a Balkan country on the coasts of the Adriatic sea, with a surface area under that of the Great Albania of yesteryear, has a long history, which, from the Illyrians of the IIIrd millennium BC, is a sequence of invasions and unions to Greece, Rome, the Byzantine, Serbian and Ottoman empires, the latter empire having lasted five centuries. It gained, not without difficulty, and not for long, in 1272, independence materialised, more recently, in a republic and two kingdoms, in 1914 of William the 1st and between 1928 and 1939, of Zog the 1st, freed in 1946 from Italian and German occupation, Albania was thrown by Enver Hodja in a half a century of withfrawal and hard-line communism. As multiparty system settles in, a serious financial crash led to disorders in 1992, resulting in yet further foreign interference, shorter than the one caused by the self-proclaimed indepedence prompted in 1989. With a heavy inheritance and a great deal of tourism resources, Albania has gone through a half century of political swings from socialists to democrats, currently in power. The successive governments try, in order to make up for lost time in the country, to implement a political democratisation and economic liberalisation programme and outside the country, to conduct an openness policy, towards the West, by continuing the process initiated several years ago, of double integration in NATO and in the European Union. Yet for various reasons, this should take time.
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