Across the Western Balkans and beyond, governments often welcome politically useful investment

JUN 25 2026 · 15:47

Across the Western Balkans and beyond, governments often welcome politically useful investment that arrives bundled with opacity, leverage, and legal exceptions. The Carnegie Endowment for Internarional Peace has described this kind of pattern as corrosive capital: investment that does not just seek profit, but reshapes institutions around the deal. That is what so many Albanians believe they are seeing now. Not merely development. Not merely tourism. But a bargain in which foreign capital, domestic power, legal flexibility, and public assets all converge in a way that leaves ordinary citizens with the cost and elites with the gains. #fyp #albania #flamingorevolution #podcast #trending