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Gresa Hasa

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PhD Researcher at the Faculty of Law and the Center for Southeast European Studies (CSEES), University of Graz | Europeanization through Judicial Reform in the Western Balkans (WB6): Albania’s Case | 2026 BiEPAG Fellow | Based in Österreich 🇦🇹

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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In this article for @biepag.bsky.social, I take a critical look at the ongoing #FlamingoRevolution in 🇦🇱, focusing on the key developments of the past three months, including the EU’s role and use of conditionality, as well as what may come next. Take a look! 🦩 www.biepag.eu/op-ed/100-da...
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100+ Days of the Flamingo Revolution: What has changed in Albania?
Against all odds, the protests in Albania did not disappear with the summer heat. They have continued, relentlessly, and there is no sign that they will back off in the near future. What began as a...
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I spoke with Tanya L. Domi for the @newlinesinst.bsky.social in Washington, D.C., about the #FlamingoRevolution in #Albania, as well as the broader political and socioeconomic context surrounding the protests. APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/37QC...
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Why the Balkans? Episode 2: Albania's "Flamingo Revolution" Ft. Gresa Hasa
Podcast Episode · New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy | Podcasts · September 8 · 45m
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I spoke with @jetzt.at about the #FlamingoRevolution in #Albania, discussing the political and social reasons driving citizens to take to the streets. 🦩
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I spoke with Valery Perry for the #DemocratizationPolicyCouncil podcast about the current political developments in #Albania. You can listen to our conversation on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Spotify: open.spotify.com/s/bmdzKlO Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
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DPC talks with Gresa Hasa (Graz, Austria)
DPC Voice - A Podcast from the Democratization Policy Council · Episode
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
By grounding political history in lived experience, they demonstrate that the political cannot be separated from the personal while questioning whose memories are recognized as legitimate historical knowledge and whose voices continue to be marginalized within European historical narratives.
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
They constitute a feminist intervention that challenges dominant narratives of war, transition, and reconciliation.
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Both works belong to a growing body of contemporary post-socialist autobiographical literature from the region, where authors trained as academics turn to childhood memory and personal narrative to reconstruct the intimate human experience of ideological and historical disintegration.
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
While Musliu reconstructs the dissolution of #Yugoslavia and the 1999 war in #Kosovo, Ypi reflects on the collapse of #Albania’s communist dictatorship and the turbulent transition that followed.
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
In this article, I bring into conversation Vjosa Musliu’s Girlhood at War (2025) and Lea Ypi’s Free (2021), two books that revisit the political ruptures of the 1990s #Balkans through the lens of childhood memory and lived experience. dwp-balkan.org/growing-up-i...
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Growing up in the ruins of history - DWP-BALKAN
History rarely arrives in childhood as an abstraction. It enters instead through silences at the dinner table while the television announces the death of the country you were born into, or through the...
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
In my latest article I examine the Kushner–Trump-backed project on #Albania’s coastline through the prism of recent SPAK investigations, exploring allegations of corruption, money laundering, and links to the international cocaine trade.
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What Does Jared Kushner’s Luxury Project Have to Do With the Albanian Mafia and Transatlantic Cocaine Trade? - Turning Point
Once a quiet ecological haven, the coastline of Narta Lagoon is now ground zero for a massive land-grab scandal. While local protests target a new […]
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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🎙️In Episode 25 of our podcast, BiEPAG Fellow Gresa Hasa and Member of the Albanian Parliament Redi Muçi examine mass protests demanding accountability from PM Rama and opposition leader Berisha. Hosted by Florian Bieber. 🎧Tune in for a discussion on "the flamingo revolution": tinyurl.com/4ywkcnsp
The episode discusses the mass protests in Albania against the development of Sazan Island and the cost in Southern Albania by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. Since, the protest movement has turned to demand the resignation of the Prime Minister Edi Rama and the opposition leader Sali Berisha. It explores the causes, the Prime Minister's response, and the potential role of the EU. Quickly, the movement has become the largest civic protest in Albania in decades, reflecting a broader dissatisfaction the dominant political and economic system.
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Matthias Meisner @meisnerwerk.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Flamingo-Revolution: Wie ein umstrittenes Luxusprojekt von Jared Kushner und Ivanka Trump in #Albanien zum Ausgangspunkt einer breiten Protestbewegung wurde www.rosalux.de/news/id/5491... via @gresahasa.bsky.social @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social
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Albaniens „Flamingo-Revolution“ - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Wie ein umstrittenes Luxusprojekt von Jared Kushner und Ivanka Trump zum Ausgangspunkt einer breiten Protestbewegung wurde.
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Krsto Lazarević @krstorevic.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Gresas großartigen Text zur Flamingo-Revolution in Albanien gibt es hier auch auf Deutsch: www.rosalux.de/news/id/5491...
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Albaniens „Flamingo-Revolution“ - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Wie ein umstrittenes Luxusprojekt von Jared Kushner und Ivanka Trump zum Ausgangspunkt einer breiten Protestbewegung wurde.
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I have written a thorough analysis of the #FlamingoRevolution in #Albania focusing on its socioeconomic dimensions. The article examines how the protests emerged, who is behind them, the structural factors driving the mobilization, and the outcomes that can reasonably be expected from it. 🦩
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Understanding Albania’s Flamingo Revolution - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
How a Jared Kushner real estate project became a rallying point against crony capitalism
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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
🔔 New BiEPAG blog ✍️ Gresa Hasa 🔹 Edi Rama is Offended by Corruption Can GDP growth be used as proof that corruption is declining? Gresa Hasa argues that economic growth figures can obscure systemic governance failures, corruption risks, and state capture in Albania. 📖 Read ⬇️ tinyurl.com/48a83956
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I spoke with Alexandra Karppi about recent political developments in #Albania, the opposition protests, the May 2025 parliamentary elections, and the country’s EU integration process. You can listen to our conversation by clicking this link: talkeasterneurope.eu/episodes/are...
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
…have a connection with, and entry bans stretching to 10 years or more – with the Council now pushing for home raids.”
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The Return Regulation will ‘ICE-ify’ the EU’s migration policy – CEPS
Europe is drawing on the US playbook on migration enforcement – precisely as that playbook’s costs are now becoming abundantly clear. It’s doing so on a mislead
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
“The Return Regulation is a decisive acceleration in a long-running direction: detection operations inside EU territory, expanded detention (including for children), forced deportation across a wide range of cases, cooperation penalties, return hubs in third countries that people may not…
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Fortress Europe in the making! 😉
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Returns regulation: MEPs ready to start negotiations | News | European Parliament
On Thursday, plenary endorsed the opening of talks with Council on the new legal framework for the return of people without the right to stay in the EU.
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Edi Rama is protecting a key political ally from accountability while simultaneously escalating his attacks on the country’s justice institutions.
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The Socialist Party of #Albania is officially granting political protection to former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Belinda Balluku, opposing the request made by the Special Structure Against Corruption and Organized Crime (SPAK) to arrest her.
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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
🔔 New BiEPAG blog ✍️ Gresa Hasa 🔹 Corruption Is Terrible, If You’re Not the One Doing It Anti-corruption protests in Albania reveal a deeper political rivalry, as opposition actors compete to reclaim legitimacy amid corruption scandals and institutional reshuffling. Read here⬇️ tinyurl.com/5n75zxvr
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Thus, ministerial turnover should be understood as nothing but a substitute for structural reform, where responsibility is individualized while the core decision-making structure and authority within the executive remains intact.
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
His ministers (extensions of Rama’s authority) operate under the constant anxiety of their replaceability, a dynamic which continues to reinforce vertical loyalty over autonomous political agency throughout his thirteen years in office.
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Since assuming office in 2013, Rama has repeatedly reshaped his cabinet before the end of each governing term.
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This cabinet reshuffle comes just six months after the old-new-government was formed in the wake of the May 2025 elections.
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
…the Special Structure Against Corruption and Organized Crime (SPAK), whose case has precipitated Rama’s sustained, months-long public attacks on justice institutions in #Albania.
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Edi Rama dismissed seven members of his cabinet today, among them Deputy Prime Minister and former Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Belinda Balluku, a loyalist facing corruption allegations and an arrest request from…
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
🥳 🥳 🥳
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
He wakes up in the morning and he gets… ideas! 👀 www.reuters.com/world/albani...
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This is not a “people vs. Edi Rama” scenario, but rather Berisha protesting the corruption he can personally no longer carry out—right after having been released from house arrest on corruption charges himself. We’re a serious republic, please do not mistake us otherwise. 😌
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Tirana has recently been covered in tear gas and Molotov cocktails. Foreign media coverage of Sali Berisha’s cartel-party protests has been lazy, to say the least.
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CIVICUS @civicusalliance.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Mass protests in #Albania followed corruption allegations that deepened public distrust. In this interview, Gresa Hasa explains why no political force commands enough trust to unite popular demands for accountability and reform. Read more: web.civicus.org/Gresa-Hasa #CIVICUSLens
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
In my interview with @civicusalliance.bsky.social, I discuss the so-called anti-corruption protests in #Albania, the actors behind them, why they have sparked controversy, and what sets them apart from other anti-corruption protests in the #WB6. 👇🏻
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ALBANIA: ‘Corruption is a serious problem, but no political force commands enough public trust to unite demands’
CIVICUS discusses recent anti-corruption protests in Albania with Gresa Hasa, a doctoral researcher at the University of Graz and co-founder of the feminist magazine Shota.
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Thus, the face of this performative anti-corruption rage is a defeated criminal, back on the streets right after serving time on corruption charges himself.
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This is not about democracy or the rule of law, but about negotiating power. Berisha and everyone else playing his game aim to project political relevance while being politically irrelevant.
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Behind all the molotov cocktails and violence stands a cartel-party desperate to weaponize outrage against corruption while being one of its most notorious symbols.
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The Democratic Party of #Albania continues to hijack and co-opt genuine political causes, alienating citizens and most members of civil society, except for those who find tactical cooperation with it temporarily useful for their own narrow political interests.
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I gave a long interview about this topic that will be published soon, but all you need to know about the current anti-corruption protests in 🇦🇱 is that they are largely performative & an attempt of the opposition led by former Prime Minister Sali Berisha to launder his legitimacy and return to power.
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
…entangled in such a network. This does not call for moralizing or merely judging the perversity of these abusive transnational elites; it demands political organizing and the dismantling of the core structures that allow such power to operate with impunity.
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
What the Epstein files reveal is the depth and scale of this criminal enterprise on an international level, spread like a virus across borders, reaching even peripheral countries like the ones in the Balkans or Central Europe, and public figures one would never have imagined being…
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Just a reminder of how spread and deep this evil is. May they all be exposed and rot in jail!
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Slovak PM’s top adviser resigns over Epstein files
Miroslav Lajčák denies being aware of any wrongdoing.
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Not all heroes wear capes… Wait, what?! 😎
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
He looks like he gets outfit inspiration from Göbbels. 👀
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
My latest article for @biepag.bsky.social looks into the 56th World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, and the challenges of small countries in the WB6 in navigating power and diplomacy in an era of unstable alliances. I invite you to take a look! 👇🏻
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This is the most dreadful nonsense I've read all week what is the matter with these joyless cunts
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Please, friends. Look on the bright side. And observe how dark it’s getting. 😌
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
What is your stance when starvation is used as a weapon of war, when entire communities are terrorized, and when they are subjected to relentless bombardment? Never Again is not merely a phrase; it is an uncompromising commitment and a responsibility.
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
What do you do when the Prime Minister of your country shakes hands with a war criminal wanted for genocide and crimes against humanity against innocent civilians?
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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I want to believe that, as a people, we have not lost this moral compass, and that we possess the maturity to honor history’s lessons with integrity. There is no need for the hypothetical question, “What would I have done back then?” The real question is: what are you doing right now?
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