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[Global355 @Global355]

Looks like EU is hoping to tie Iceland and Montenegro for membership. This is good news for Montenegro, but bad news for Albania, as it will delay membership for years with likely French veto. Speed was only possible with 3 countries as a package. https://t.co/QbX5Ymyekk.

[Global355 @Global355]

@MireMarke @united I think Delta is negotiation process to fly to Tirana. Maybe the competition will do the trick.

[Malesori @Malesori4]

Fertility rates across the Balkans in 2024 by region. Data mainly from Eurostat as well as national statistical agencies

[Global355 @Global355]

Albania's demographic decline keeps speeding up as double effect of emigration and lower birth rates create down spiral. It's not just the numbers. It is the speed at which this is happening in Albania, which is alarming. https://t.co/sC1DW8wbwT

[Denver Hodge Lentil Fund @DerAchsenZeit]

Under religious conversion pressure, Albanians resolved to identify each other by the language they speak.

"Shqiptar" means

[Global355 @Global355]

Important metric to understand when talking about any demographic subject.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

This map shows the share of all babies going to be born in 2026 by continent. Half of all new humans this year will be born into Asia. Source: https://t.co/pjC9ZUhB2Z

[Global355 @Global355]

Albanians have on average higher life expectancies than their "Western Balkan" neighbors. This has been going on since 1970s. Scholars have explained this "paradox" through a combination of climate, nutrition, family structures and cheap but high impact investments in healthcare.

[Revista Monitor @revista_monitor]

Shqiptarët jetojnë më pak se vendet e BE-së, por më shumë se rajoni
Lexo lajmin https://t.co/tRYvkQcphP

[Global355 @Global355]

There is to much AI slop posted everywhere, and it's easily identifiable as such. I basically stop reading when I see it. If you can't take the time to spell out an argument on your own, I can't take the time to read you. Anybody else feel the same way?

[Global355 @Global355]

Based on reaction of EU and EU states on Albania's ruling party's decision to shield an ex deputy PM from arrest on corruption charges, it appears the "fast track" EU membership euphoria is over.

[Global355 @Global355]

Genius alert. Someone give the kid a job.

[Kruja Chronicles @FilteredZero]

From the small town of Cërrik Albania to an international stage in the U.S. 🇺🇸young Albanian Loris Qosja won gold in a global math competition against 300+ students from 30 countries. His family couldn't afford the trip his teacher paid the ticket. 🇦🇱🧮

[Global355 @Global355]

@SamiFlamuri @deardorentine Exactly!

[Global355 @Global355]

This is actually a fascinating book to read to get a feel for northwestern Albania of the time. It's available open access on the web.

[Arbërikon @Arberikon]

in his 1879 travels to Albania, E. F. Knight compared Albanians and Montenegrins and concluded that the Albanian was more industrious, more intellectual, and “in every way of a finer, nobler race, than his much belauded hereditary foe.”

[Global355 @Global355]

Noma head chef resigns from restaurant amid abuse allegations https://t.co/rWzUIfF0zt

[Admirim @admirim]

Albanian American Mira Murati's firm Thinking Machines Lab strikes a multibillion deal with the world's most valuable company Nvidia.

[Global355 @Global355]

@FilteredZero I've seen the state of the railroad project Tirane-Durres. There is no way it will open in May. But let's hope your tweet ages well.

[Global355 @Global355]

Happy to keep seeing Albanian bylines in top publications around the world. Reading @LaVjosa
writing for NYT out Toronto today. The next gen of Diaspora journos going places. https://t.co/Axn0EjO07E

[Global355 @Global355]

@AlBrerore Projekte "do te" me IA. Nuk po mbyllin dot Tirane-Rinas-Durres, kane vite, vite, vite qe flasin. Ideja eshte e mire, por fiks "perralle me mbret" mbetet per momentin.

[Global355 @Global355]

@ektrit Good point. If autarky doesn't work for large countries, we know full well what it does to small ones ... Albania in the 1980s case in point.

[Global355 @Global355]

No surprise there, based on the percentages of the Swiss national football team, I would have suspected it would be an even higher number.

[Petrit Selimi @Petrit]

According to LeCanton27, circa 10,000 out of 150,000 Swiss soldiers and reservists are of Albanian origin. That’s more than Kosovo’s own active duty military size.