Legal & political science scholar tweeting on ethnonationalism,ethnic politics, frozen & not so frozen conflicts, interested in Albanian, Irish & Balkan affairs
TiranaPrishtinaDublinBelfast
Joined May 2009
- Tweets28.6K
- Following4.5K
- Followers2.6K
- Likes27K
Roland Gjoni retweeted
Wrote a piece on the new EU commission's report on Albania. The body of the report is pretty damning, the verdict pretty positive. The government highlights the summary, the rest of us read the body of the report. It would be best if signals weren't so mixed, but then again bureaucracy has its own internal logic.
Shqip:
expatathome.substack.com/p/k…
English:
expatathome.substack.com/p/t…
Roland Gjoni retweeted
My simple answer to @DZedelashvili's question is: NO. Neither Hungary nor Serbia offers any hope to Georgia's pro-Western opposition & civil society. The reason is simple: Ivanisvhili won't allow transparent & fair elections in Georgia. And that's that. oc-media.org/opinion-can-ser…
Roland Gjoni retweeted
A Serbian prosecutor investigating alleged corruption surrounding a Trump real estate project in Belgrade was targeted with Israeli-made Pegasus spyware after speaking out about political interference and abuses of power.
vist.ly/5nytc
Roland Gjoni retweeted
As Prime Minister Edi Rama rules out resignation in response to violent protests, a political solution is needed to calm the unrest, experts argue.
balkaninsight.com/2026/10/16…
The outbreak of violence appears to have caught Rama completely off guard. For months, the Flamingo movement’s peaceful protests were dismissed, ridiculed, and ignored.
tiranatimes.com/quo-vadis-al…
Albania PM refuses to resign as student protesters attack government buildings ft.com/content/24ea259d-da7a…
Roland Gjoni retweeted
"Under the control of Dodik's party, Republika Srpska has forged close ties with President Vladimir Putin's government in Russia, while also spending heavily on U.S.-based lobbying firms". cbsnews.com/news/russia-trum…
Roland Gjoni retweeted
As European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visits Tirana, the big question is not which accession chapters will come next but how Albania’s political and social climate will shape the assessment Brussels makes of it in the months ahead.
balkaninsight.com/2026/09/30…
Roland Gjoni retweeted
A push by U.S. energy companies to deepen their influence in the Western Balkans is fueling EU concerns that the region could end up hooked on American fossil fuels.
🔗 politico.eu/article/us-push-…
Roland Gjoni retweeted
Prime Minister Edi Rama announced Vlora Hyseni’s immediate dismissal after prosecutors implicated her in a sweeping investigation involving manipulated public contracts and the alleged destruction of evidence.
occrp.org/en/news/albanian-c…
Roland Gjoni retweeted
French intelligence agencies are preparing for a massive Russian attack by 2030. According to a confidential document obtained by France Télévisions, the situation is escalating faster than expected. Autumn 2027 is now being mentioned.
franceinfo.fr/monde/russie/r…
Roland Gjoni retweeted
The Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague today found former President Hashim Thaçi criminally responsible for war crimes carried out during the 1998-1999 war with Serbia and sentenced him to 25 years in prison.
politico.eu/article/hashim-t…
Roland Gjoni retweeted
Rama offered the flamingos his besa. Keler Marku argues Albania should give them something a government cannot take back: standing in a court of law. Why the buried 2021 draft law on collective actions, not Besa, is the real answer to this summer.
@kelermarku
tiranaexaminer.com/give-the-…
Roland Gjoni retweeted
Another piece on Ratko Mladić and Serbia's decision to give the genocidal general a hero's burial in defiance of victims, their families and the international community. In @ObserverUK
observer.co.uk/news/internat…
Roland Gjoni retweeted
"In Bosnia, we struggle a lot with the issues left behind by the war, but at least there is awareness. I can’t say the same about the rest of the world, which still believes that fascism was defeated 80 years ago."
— #AJOpinion by Nidžara Ahmetašević ⤵️ aje.news/tg5d53
Roland Gjoni retweeted
New online: "From diaspora to neighbourhood: Reconfiguring diasporic engagement through intra-diasporic solidarities among immigrant mothers in Quebec" by Andréanne Brunet-Bélanger et al. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… @TariqModood
