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The Albanian mess

Europe must help clear it up fast, or accept another failure in the Balkans

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WHAT can be done about Albania? The question deserves answers, first in Albania itself, then in the capitals and council-rooms of Western Europe, on to whose flank the mess could yet spread.

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