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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

3 weeks ago

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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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20 years of Poland in NATO

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*This speech was held by the Polish Ambassador Karol Bachura at the AIIS conference: “20 Years of NATO, 10 Years of Albanian membership” From 1989, long before NATO and EU membership

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Croatia’s NATO membership: a strategic achievement

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*This speech was held by the Croatian Ambassador to Tirana Sanja Bujas Juraga, at the AIIS conference: “70 Years of NATO, 10 Years of Albania’s Membership” Nowadays it is much easier

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“Our collective strength comes from our shared values”

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Leyla Moses-Ones As I begin these remarks, I want to take you back to April 4, 1949, the day the United States formally tied its safety and security to that of Europe

7 years ago

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Editorial: 10 years of NATO: the membership that changed Albania’s path for the better course

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL One could not overestimate and overvalue the importance, both symbolic and real, of Albania’s membership to NATO even if they tried. After five decades of the most aggressive and

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President Meta: “Russian influence exists, but it’s not Albania’s biggest problem”

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TIRANA, March. 19 – Albanian President Ilir Meta also reacted to the latest leaked State Intelligence Service report from last week, which warned of efforts to increase Russian influence in the country

7 years ago

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Editorial: “Russians at the gate”

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL It was supposed to be a closed doors, confidential briefing of the National Security Commission of the Parliament by the Intelligence Services. Yet the report delivered by Director Bendo

7 years ago

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Editorial: Making Fools of Themselves: Experimenting in Fake Oppositions

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL In the beginning of the 90s, the crumbling communist regime foreseeing its fate made a last ridiculous attempt to salvage its wrecks by prompting the first fake opposition

7 years ago

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Albanians make up second biggest group to gain EU citizenships in 2017

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TIRANA, Mar. 7 – During 2017, 58,900 Albanians were granted EU citizenship, 97 percent of which coming from Greece or Italy, according to statistics published on Wednesday by Eurostat. Although the number

7 years ago

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Editorial: A sleep walking patient aiming for the abyss

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL There is only one thing worse than a full blown democratic crisis and that is ignoring it, normalizing the current state of affairs as just an administrative glitch with

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Concerns mount over tense political situation ahead of peak tourist season

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By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Feb. 26 – At a time when political tension has escalated after the main two opposition parties abandoned their MP mandates in a quite unprecedented move and plan

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Editorial: Negative stability is a step into the dark

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL The latest political developments in Albania, including the decision of opposition parties MPs to give relinquish their mandates and therefore be no longer representatives in the Parliament as well

7 years ago

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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?

20 years of Poland in NATO

Croatia’s NATO membership: a strategic achievement

“Our collective strength comes from our shared values”

Editorial: 10 years of NATO: the membership that changed Albania’s path for the better course

President Meta: “Russian influence exists, but it’s not Albania’s biggest problem”

Editorial: “Russians at the gate”

Editorial: Making Fools of Themselves: Experimenting in Fake Oppositions

Albanians make up second biggest group to gain EU citizenships in 2017

Editorial: A sleep walking patient aiming for the abyss

Concerns mount over tense political situation ahead of peak tourist season

Editorial: Negative stability is a step into the dark

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