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After weeks of clashes in Tirana, Albania's government amended the law on assemblies with an emergency normative act: 72-hour bans near institutions, tenfold fines and new police powers. Lawyers say it may be unconstitutional. What it could mean for LGBTQ+ activism.
The Foreign Contribution Regulation Amendment Bill, headed for a vote in Parliament's monsoon session, would let a government-appointed authority seize a nonprofit's foreign-funded bank accounts and property the moment its registration lapses — with no court review first.
USAID's withdrawal pulled an estimated 10–20% of annual funding from North Macedonian civil society. For LGBTQ+ organizations already navigating the Western Balkans' weakest rights environment, the math is brutal.
