I'm not sure how things have changed in the last 4 years, but I was in Tirana right after the Kosovo crisis and the streets cleared out totally empty after 9 o'clock at night. That's when the Albanian mafias prey on anyone and everyone.

And there are (were) still blood feuds in the northwestern part of the country.

But my guess is that the population would rise to the notion of the international exposure. The people themselves were delightful.

Rita