Albania: Police Fire Rubber Bullets at Student Protests — SkimNews
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- Albanian police fired rubber bullets at student protesters as anti-government demonstrations in Tirana entered a fifth consecutive day of rioting.
- Albania's prime minister reframed the mass protests as a threat to EU membership rather than to his government, in his public response to the unrest.
Why it matters: Albania's prime minister publicly branded the mass protests a threat to EU membership rather than to his government, a defensive framing that places the country's EU membership path at the center of the standoff. A sustained fifth day of rioting in Tirana shows the unrest has not subsided.
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