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Balkans: Disparate Protests Share a Common Demand for More Openness

Feb 25, 2019 | 21:00 GMT

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Social unrest in several Balkan countries is driving a number of separate protest actions against the region's governments. On Feb. 21, thousands of people took to the streets of Tirana to demand the resignation of the Albanian government. Then on Feb. 23, Serbian protesters held their 12th weekly demonstration against president Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade. Meanwhile, in neighboring Montenegro, demonstrators in Podgorica demanded the end of President Milo Dukanovic's government. The next day, thousands of Romanians marched in Bucharest to oppose government reforms to the judiciary. Significant proportions of citizens in the Balkans region of Europe think more needs to be done to make their governments more transparent and less corrupt. ...

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