nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/f713d3b4980c25fb DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 261106s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/f713d3b4980c25fb doi eng 342 23 Richter, Janos Author aut Where the Anger Remains - A Letter from Tirana Richter, Janos Verfassungsblog 2026-11-06 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier It is Tuesday afternoon, late October, and a few hundred people have gathered on Rruga e Durrësit in Tirana, the capital of Albania. They stand around in small groups, talking and smoking. Some are waving the Albanian flag. Every now and then, someone starts a chant. As a visitor who has stumbled upon the gathering by chance, I find the scene remarkably peaceful. The only reminders that the protests have not always been this way are three rubbish bins, apparently set alight out of habit and the façade of the Ministry of Education. It is against this façade that the anger of many Albanians has erupted – anger that has specifically Albanian roots on the one hand, but is also part of a broader European context, and for which Germany has long lacked any sustainable form of public expression. CC BY-SA 4.0 Albania Albanien freedom of assembly protests students (DE-588)4001028-4 gnd Albanien Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/where-the-anger-remains/ raw object