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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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Letter to the editor: The double standards in Albania’s diplomatic service

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Shortly after the Socialist Party came to power, they decided to change the law on diplomatic service. A group of Albanian diplomats with a long history in foreign diplomatic service whose names

8 years ago

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Editorial: With transparency concerns, Albania-Greece sea border deal enters danger zone

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Concerns over transparency in negotiations between Albania and Greece on a new maritime border agreement are growing to the point that when a new deal is reached, it might be so contested

8 years ago

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Albania launches probe on covert call centers acting as brokerage firms

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TIRANA, July 2 – Albania has launched a probe into dozens of call centers allegedly operating as covert unlicensed brokerage firms involved in fraud operations by offering potential investors attractive return rates

8 years ago

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Editorial: Albania and the EU: A tougher road ahead

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The European Union has decided to postpone a decision on whether it will open accession negotiations with Albania — neither supporting nor rejecting the European Commission’s recommendation for an unconditional opening of

8 years ago

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Albania neither confirms nor denies oil concessionaire’s alleged links to Russia’s Gazprom

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TIRANA, June 28 – The Albanian government has neither confirmed nor denied that a Switzerland-based company with alleged ties to Russian giant Gazprom is conducting contract negotiations to acquire three oilfields in

8 years ago

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Albania FDI uncertainties mount as few alternatives remain for major concluding projects

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TIRANA, June 27 – Two-thirds of foreign direct investment that flowed into Albania in the first quarter of this year came from two major energy-related projects, already in their final stage of

8 years ago

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Durres Port cash stash linked to euro’s free fall in Albania

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TIRANA, June 26 – The seizure of €3.5 million in cash at Albania’s main port of Durres this week in alleged drug profits has apparently confirmed speculations that money illegally entering the

8 years ago

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EU-Albania: the winners and losers of June 28!

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By Lufti Dervishi 48 hours prior, and yet no one can say for sure what the decision of the European Council regarding the possibility of opening the negotiations for Albania and

8 years ago

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‘The lesson from Auschwitz is that kindness is the real strength’

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Anna Miszewska, the head of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, has called on Albania to become the 39th country to join their project in preserving the physical remains of the Memorial for future generations

8 years ago

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Editorial: Albania as EU’s migrant camp: A price too high

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A debate has been taking place in Albania after international media revealed proposed plans to create massive camps in Albania for non-European refugees and migrants aiming to reach the European Union’s wealthy

8 years ago

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Why Albanian-Greek relations are moving backwards

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By Bashkim Zeneli* Bilateral relations between Albania and Greece have always had, and still continue to have, a great importance. Not only for the sake of good neighborly relations between the two

8 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?

Letter to the editor: The double standards in Albania’s diplomatic service

Editorial: With transparency concerns, Albania-Greece sea border deal enters danger zone

Albania launches probe on covert call centers acting as brokerage firms

Editorial: Albania and the EU: A tougher road ahead

Albania neither confirms nor denies oil concessionaire’s alleged links to Russia’s Gazprom

Albania FDI uncertainties mount as few alternatives remain for major concluding projects

Durres Port cash stash linked to euro’s free fall in Albania

EU-Albania: the winners and losers of June 28!

‘The lesson from Auschwitz is that kindness is the real strength’

Editorial: Albania as EU’s migrant camp: A price too high

Why Albanian-Greek relations are moving backwards

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

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

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