Former New York City mayor Eric Adams obtains Albanian citizenship
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What to know about Political Allegations
Eric Adams has obtained citizenship and a passport from Albania, the Balkan country which received effusive compliments from the former New York City mayor during a visit there relatively recently.
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What happened
Eric Adams has obtained citizenship and a passport from Albania, the Balkan country which received effusive compliments from the former New York City mayor during a visit there relatively recently.
Why it matters
The Albania Daily News first reported on Friday that Adams had requested both and was granted them by a special decree from the republic’s president, Bajram Begaj.
Common ground
A spokesperson for Adams then confirmed that development in a statement distributed to the news media, and it was evidently chronicled in Albania’s official government journal.
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Read the original article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/10/eric-adams-albanian-citizenship
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“Eric Adams has obtained citizenship and a passport from Albania”
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— Albanian (endonym: shqip [ʃcip] , gjuha shqipe [ˈɟuha ˈʃcipɛ] , or arbërisht [aɾbəˈɾiʃt]) is an Indo-European language and the only surviving representative of the Albanoid branch, which belongs to th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_language
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— Eric Leroy Adams (born September 1, 1960) is an American politician and former police officer who served as the 111th mayor of New York City from 2022 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, Adams …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Adams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Adams
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— Proto-Albanian is the ancestral reconstructed language of Albanian, before the Gheg–Tosk dialectal diversification (before c. 600 CE). Albanoid and other Paleo-Balkan languages had their formative cor…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Albanian_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Albanian_language
“The Albania Daily News first reported on Friday that Adams had requested both [citizenship and a passport] and was granted them by a special decree from the republic’s president, Bajram Begaj”
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— Albania, officially the Republic of Albania, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is located in the Balkans, on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea, and shares land borders with …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania
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— Eric Leroy Adams (born September 1, 1960) is an American politician and former police officer who served as the 111th mayor of New York City from 2022 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, Adams …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Adams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Adams
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— Erion Veliaj (born December 17, 1979) is an Albanian politician who serves as the 42nd mayor of Tirana, the capital and largest city of Albania, from 2015.
Beginning as an activist and the leader of M…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erion_Veliaj
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erion_Veliaj
“An English translation of the journal entry, signed by Begaj, states: 'I decree granting citizenship … upon … Eric Leroy Adams'”
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— Eric Leroy Adams (born September 1, 1960) is an American politician and former police officer who served as the 111th mayor of New York City from 2022 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, Adams …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Adams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Adams
“Adams travelled to Albania for four days in October toward the end of his time as mayor of one of the world’s largest, most important cities”
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“Adams and Edi Rama, Albania’s prime minister, spoke of collaborating more strongly in the fields of tourism and technology”
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“Adams said he would champion a direct flight from New York to Albania, as the Associated Press noted”
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“A former New York police department (NYPD) captain, Adams was the city’s mayor from the start of 2022 to the end of 2025”
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“The Democrat bowed out of seeking his party’s nomination while running for re-election amid a federal corruption case that was ultimately dismissed after an extraordinary intervention from US president Donald Trump’s administration”
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“Mamdani ultimately defeated Cuomo decisively in November, and he succeeded Adams to become New York City’s first Muslim mayor”
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“In March, Mamdani’s administration moved to stop representing Adams in a lawsuit that alleges the ex-mayor sexually assaulted a woman more than three decades earlier”
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“The plaintiff, who has publicly identified herself as Lorna Beach-Mathura, claims he demanded a sexual favor in exchange for his help in advancing her career while they worked together in New York City’s transit police bureau in 1993”
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“Albania allows foreign adults to acquire immediate citizenship when it is considered to be in the national interest of the country – provided they do not pose a public safety threat”
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