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Kanye West in Tirana: Has a Global Spectacle Become a Political Backfire?

Planned before Albania’s protest movement began, the concert was intended to strengthen the country’s international profile. But public financing, free tickets and a radically changed political context turned it into a debate

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Diana Gellçi’s Question to Reinier de Graaf: What Would You Say Today?

Tirana Times , July 09, 2026 – Tirana Times is publishing below an open public question addressed by Albanian scholar Diana Gellçi, PhD, an Albanian professor based in the United States, to Dutch

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Are Europe’s Star Architects Helping Launder Albania’s Criminal Economy?

The Albanian Files suggests that international architecture may have served not only as design, but as a prestigious façade for opaque money, captured institutions and one-man rule. Tirana Times, June 29, 2026

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Editorial: The prevailing chaos dragging the future underneath

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL Under the scorching sun and the fooling disguise of life going on, the chaotic political, economic and social situation in Albania is deteriorating. There is a complete, deep

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Albania is in danger!

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By Prof. Sami Repishti* Today, Albania is in danger! Facing a self-inflicted conflict originating by the excessive partisanship of the two major political parties, Albania is calling: Please, help us before we

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Editorial: Albania–Kosovo Relations: the show goes on

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL Even though the subject of having joint embassies and consular services has been promoted before, this week the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Albania and Kosovo presented with

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Editorial: The Albania we (really) want?

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL The Socialist Party’s now famous slogan “for the Albania we want” seemed initially abstract and almost impossible to read by the majority of the party’s militants, be those officials

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President decrees October 13 as new elections date

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TIRANA, June 27 – Albanian President Ilir Meta decreed on Thursday noon October 13 as the new date for local elections. Meta stressed at a press conference where he also presented

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How to read the upcoming boycott

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Alba Cela Faced with two political sides that are increasingly starting to resemble boisterous street gangs, Albanians are voicing their decision to stay away from the ballot box on June 30. The

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Editorial: Sham elections: the day after

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL In the first elections after World War II, precisely on December 2, 1945, ordinary Albanian citizens could cast their vote by inserting beads in a box. They had

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Hashim Thaà§i: From a Rebellion Leader to President

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Caroline Fetscher* The three-meter-high statute of the former US President, Bill Clinton, sculpted with a smile on its face and with his right hand raised, greets the passers-by at the square named

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Editorial: Crime, punishment and violence- this government’s days are done

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL There have been consecutive releases of wire tappings in batches from the German media Bild, demonstrating again and again that starting from the Prime Minister himself Edi Rama and

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Editorial: Albania’s crisis: End this battle now to win all future ones

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL The wise and often misunderstood Albanian diplomat and politician, Mit’hat Frasheri, wrote confidently almost a hundred years ago that “Albanians will win all the battles that the future holds

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Albania’s crisis – the way out

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By David L. Phillips Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama threatened to fire President Ilir Meta for postponing local elections. Meta is justifiably concerned that a ballot in today’s volatile climate could

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Kanye West in Tirana: Has a Global Spectacle Become a Political Backfire?

Diana Gellçi’s Question to Reinier de Graaf: What Would You Say Today?

Are Europe’s Star Architects Helping Launder Albania’s Criminal Economy?

Editorial: The prevailing chaos dragging the future underneath

Albania is in danger!

Editorial: Albania–Kosovo Relations: the show goes on

Editorial: The Albania we (really) want?

President decrees October 13 as new elections date

How to read the upcoming boycott

Editorial: Sham elections: the day after

Hashim Thaà§i: From a Rebellion Leader to President

Editorial: Crime, punishment and violence- this government’s days are done

Editorial: Albania’s crisis: End this battle now to win all future ones

Albania’s crisis – the way out

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From staunch enemy to strategic partner: Albanian-American relations in transition

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