Straddling the Montenegrin-Albanian border, Lake Shkoder is facing environmental threats from a variety of man-made sources. In this first of a two-part series on the Balkans' largest lake, RFE/RL ...

Lake Shkoder -- the largest lake in the Balkans and surely one of the most beautiful -- has faced a variety of environmental threats over the past decade on both its Albanian and Montenegrin sides.

[Balkan Insight, 17 April] Albania and Croatia plan to jointly construct a nuclear power plant on the shores of Lake Shkoder, near Albania’s border with Montenegro, according to Croatian officials.

Retrofitted to the outlet of a 30-year-old reservoir, the two-stage, 53-MW, 90-turbine Ashta Hydropower Plant on the Drin River in northwest Albania is a textbook example of how innovative ...

15:06, Sat, Apr 26, 2025 Updated: 15:06, Sat, Apr 26, 2025 Crowd-free holidays are somewhat of a rarity nowadays with thousands of people flocking to Europe’s most popular destinations. Luckily, there ...

Voltana Ademi, 41, is the mayor of Shkodra, her hometown in northern Albania. She earlier was a member of the Albanian parliament and a regional governor. Q. Albania is still off the beaten path for ...

Albanian Carpet is a project by the Rotterdam-based studio Casanova+Hernandez that revitalises a stretch of the waterfront in the small Albanian village of Shiroka, on the shores of Lake Shkodra. “Its ...