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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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The road rarely taken

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By Sidonja Manushi “Upon entering these mountains, I asked the first highlander I met: — what are you!? – Albanian, he answered. I had asked the same question in other places,

8 years ago

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Editorial: Gov’t should consider lowering tolls on Albania-Kosovo highway

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It’s one of the prides of post-communist Albania – a major four-lane highway that penetrates the country’s unforgiving mountainous interior to connect to Kosovo, cutting what used to be an arduous day-long

8 years ago

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Albania-Greece: Fighting false perceptions, projecting positive agenda

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By Eleni Sourani* First of all, I would like to congratulate the Albanian Institute for International Studies for taking the initiative to organize this very timely conference, related to the present and

8 years ago

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Stereotypes, paradoxes and myths hold back Albania-Greece relations, AIIS conference shows

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TIRANA, March 27 – Century-old stereotypes, paradoxes and myths dating back to Albania’s independence and World War II continue to hold back relations between Albania and its southern neighbor Greece even after

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Albania launches first toll road amid internal, Kosovo concerns

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TIRANA, March 29 – The launch of a tolling system on the Highway of Nation linking Albania to Kosovo has angered local communities, businesses and the opposition who fear the average €5

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Editorial: Albania’s real EU membership race is with itself, not Serbia

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In a recent interview in Brussels, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama mentioned that he saw Albania’s bid to join the European Union as a race between the country and Serbia, which has

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Another 22,000 Albanians applied for asylum in 2017 triggering concern on economy

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TIRANA, March 20 – The number of first-time Albanian asylum seekers to EU member countries dropped by about a quarter to 22,000 in 2017, but Albanians continued remaining on the top 10

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Oil and mining industry struggles to recover following mid-2014 slump in commodity prices

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TIRANA, March 16 – The key tax that Albania collects from oil and mining operations in the country hit a seven-year low in 2017 despite commodity prices considerably recovering from the mid-2014

8 years ago

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Editorial: Why are Albanians feeling so miserable?

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Albanians are apparently feeling miserable. They are the most unhappy people in Europe, according to an annual UN happiness report. And things are getting, worse not better, with the country falling 22

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Fearing massive bankruptcies, small businesses warn of protests over VAT inclusion

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TIRANA, March 13 – As a value added tax reform is about to enter into force next April, thousands of micro and small businesses fear their tax burden will sharply increase and

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Robert D. Kaplan: Europe, the US and early-stage globalization

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By Sidonja Manushi The first time Robert D. Kaplan was in Albania, the country was still isolated, deprived and unknown. Although communism was in its final throes, it had not officially fallen,

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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?

The road rarely taken

Editorial: Gov’t should consider lowering tolls on Albania-Kosovo highway

Albania-Greece: Fighting false perceptions, projecting positive agenda

Stereotypes, paradoxes and myths hold back Albania-Greece relations, AIIS conference shows

Albania launches first toll road amid internal, Kosovo concerns

Editorial: Albania’s real EU membership race is with itself, not Serbia

Another 22,000 Albanians applied for asylum in 2017 triggering concern on economy

Oil and mining industry struggles to recover following mid-2014 slump in commodity prices

Editorial: Why are Albanians feeling so miserable?

Fearing massive bankruptcies, small businesses warn of protests over VAT inclusion

Robert D. Kaplan: Europe, the US and early-stage globalization

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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?