Today is National Youth Day. On December 8, 1990, a group of students and lecturers from the University of Tirana became the initiators and protagonists of one of the greatest historical turning points: the peaceful protests that brought about the fall of the communist regime and the birth of democracy.

With the phrase “We want Albania like all of Europe”, the young students asked for an establishment of the system of Western values ​​and the rule of law; integration in Europe, and the guarantee of political pluralism as the main basis for a free and democratic society.

Their resistance ended the long era of self-isolation, paving the way for the market economy and an open society.