New Delhi, Oct. 21 -- Europe's economic slowdown, rising living costs and shrinking job opportunities are fuelling public discontent across the continent, including in Albania, where the return of members of the Albanian diaspora is increasing pressure on jobs and economic opportunities, according to Albania's honorary consul general Dikshu Chandra Kukreja.

Kukreja told LiveMint that the domestic pressures behind the protests need to be understood against the backdrop of wider economic and geopolitical developments across Europe, including the Russia-Ukraine war, other conflicts, rising energy costs and weakening employment prospects.

"Europe's involvement in the Russia-Ukraine war and other conflicts, coupled with spiralling energy cos...