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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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Euro’s free fall, energy uncertainties could hit Albania’s poorly diversified exports

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TIRANA, Dec. 4 – Albania’s exports are heading for double-digit growth rates for the second consecutive year, but uncertainties about euro’s free fall against the local currency, a hydro-dependent electricity sector and

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Roskovec community center in Fier region, southwest Albania, turned orange. Photo: UNDP Albania

Patriarchal mentality holds back Albania’s bid to fight gender-based inequality, violence

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TIRANA, Dec. 4 – Leaving behind the patriarchal mentality is the main challenge for Albania and its bid to narrow the gender gap and fight domestic and sexual violence, most of which

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Albania old vehicle import ban met with protests by local traders

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TIRANA, Dec. 3 – A government decision banning the import of second-hand vehicles older than 10 years and forcing them to pay all taxes for their stock of unsold cars, has been

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Albania target Euro 2020 finals through second spot finish in tough qualifying group

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By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Dec. 3 – Albania have been drawn in a tough Euro 2020 qualifying campaign group stage with reigning world champions France and will apparently be fighting for a

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Reflections on nationalism

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By Bernd Fischer With the hundredth anniversary of the armistice which ended the first world war just behind us, there has been a resurgence of interest in nationalism. This is a welcome

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Editorial: Nationalism- an easy and cheap shelter made of straw

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Black Friday was almost behind us, however Albanians were treated to some nationalism bonanza at an incredible discount price this Monday when the governments of Albania and Kosovo met in the town

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Original Austrian telegram considered best testimony to Albania’s Independence Day

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TIRANA, Nov. 29 – A newly discovered original telegram sent by a former Austrian consul based in the city of Vlora, southern Albania, has brought back the atmosphere of Albania’s declaration of

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Albania placed under tighter money laundering monitoring by CoE body

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TIRANA, Nov. 27 – A Council of Europe monitoring body has placed Albania into enhanced follow-up following poor progress in tackling money laundering and terrorism financing, in a rating that has renewed

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Albania, Kosovo vow stronger economic cooperation amid Serbia dispute

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By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Nov. 27 – Albania and Kosovo have vowed to step up economic cooperation by scrapping tariff and non-tariff barriers and conclude a customs union project that would facilitate

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Albanian PM: National unification with Kosovo by 2025

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TIRANA, Nov. 26 – At the joint meeting that took place in Kosovo’s Peja between the Albanian and Kosovo governments on Monday, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama spoke about the cooperation between

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Challenges ahead with Albania’s nascent agritourism industry – a Harvard University perspective

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TIRANA, Nov. 26 – Albania’s nascent agritourism sector can be developed by promoting both culinary tourism and farm stay accommodation units despite a series of barriers related to lack of tradition and

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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?

Euro’s free fall, energy uncertainties could hit Albania’s poorly diversified exports

Patriarchal mentality holds back Albania’s bid to fight gender-based inequality, violence

Albania old vehicle import ban met with protests by local traders

Albania target Euro 2020 finals through second spot finish in tough qualifying group

Reflections on nationalism

Editorial: Nationalism- an easy and cheap shelter made of straw

Original Austrian telegram considered best testimony to Albania’s Independence Day

Albania placed under tighter money laundering monitoring by CoE body

Albania, Kosovo vow stronger economic cooperation amid Serbia dispute

Albanian PM: National unification with Kosovo by 2025

Challenges ahead with Albania’s nascent agritourism industry – a Harvard University perspective

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United Arab Emirates ‘s Expanding Influence in Albania – Financial and Political Concerns

News Analysis: A Geopolitical Shift in the Western Balkans?

In a depopulating Albania, why is the PM campaigning on a promise to make it easier for young people to leave?

Op/Ed: Is Albania slipping into a one-party system?

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

Editorial: Returning to the real agenda of Albania -Kosovo relations: start with respect.

Albanian-Turkish relations: The perils of change

Deconstructing myths in Albanian-U.S. relations

Concerns raised as Tirana mulls exiting ICSID over Becchetti affair €120-million judgement

Why Albania’s domestic PR wars are being fought abroad

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

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