Europe Albania A 70-year-old woman from northern Albania, File Kola, is one of the few to make the ancestral dress called Xhubleta, which UNESCO recently included in the Intangible Cultural Heritage List
Europe Albania Unemployment, poverty, and disillusionment with the political elite is emptying small Albanian towns and villages of people, with the young mostly moving abroad; a trend growing in 2023 according to the first statistics issued
Europe Albania The country has declared the Vjosa basin, Europe's last unspoilt river, a nature park; the 13.000-hectare area will be subjected to high protection regulation
Europe Albania Albania ranked first in Europe as country with highest number of remittances from EU countries in 2021, totalling more than €1 billion; it is the highest amount in Europe in relation to country's population, amounting to approximately 6,7% of GDP