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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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Experts worried over neglect to Albania’s gems as two sites make it to Europe’s most endangered

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TIRANA, Jan. 30 – Albanian heritage experts have hailed the shortlisting of Gjirokastra and the post-Byzantine churches among Europe 12 most endangered sites as a good opportunity that could see them escape

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Albania’s euroisation needs to drop by 10% to avoid annual losses of €67 mln, IMF experts say

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TIRANA, Jan. 29 – As Albania’s central bank prepares to apply de-euroisation measures in a bid to reduce the current high level of Euro-denominated loans and deposits in the country’s banking system,

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Thousands rally to protest against government

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TIRANA, Jan. 29 – The opposition’s protest rally in Tirana this Saturday gathered thousands calling for the Rama government to resign over its alleged ties with organized crime and fostering of corruption.

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Shrinking Albania: New, ‘silent’ migration trend hit record numbers in 2017

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TIRANA, Jan. 22 – Albanians are leaving the country at a record-breaking pace, but unlike previous years, they are no longer seeking asylum, choosing instead to fly under the authorities’ radar to

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Fast-track procedures on new Vlora airport okayed amid environmental concerns

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TIRANA, Jan. 25 – The Albanian government has approved fast track negotiation procedures with a Turkish consortium that has offered to build a new airport in Vlora, southern Albania, making it the

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Albania revises growth, debt targets in optimistic scenario turned down by IMF, World Bank

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TIRANA, Jan. 19 – The Albanian government has reviewed its mid-term macroeconomic scenario slightly revising upward the country’s GDP growth for the 2018-2021 period, but delaying the public debt target of 60

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Editorial: Albanians pay the bill for the government’s whims

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On Jan. 11, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled the Albanian government will have to compensate owners of a seaside apartment block in Vlora €14.2 million for demolishing the

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As gov’t erodes property rights, Strasbourg rulings hit taxpayers hard

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TIRANA, Jan. 16 – A January 11 ruling by the European Court of Human Rights has once again unveiled the ongoing arbitrariness governments in the past quarter of a century of Albania’s

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Cut in ministries fails to make public administration smaller

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TIRANA, Jan. 16 – The drastic cut in the number of ministries after a new Socialist Party-led government took over in September 2017 has not been accompanied with the expected slash in

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Editorial: IRTC-ARMO: A criminal story of corruption

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During the first seven months of 2017, three special tax investigative teams visited one of the capital’s bookstores. In a surprise visit, the special tax investigation team, composed of five members —

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Ruling Socialist Party MP and former Prime Minister, Bashkim Fino

Former Albania prime minister challenges incumbent football president’s 16-year reign

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TIRANA, Jan. 12 – Former Socialist Party Prime Minister Bashkim Fino has unveiled his much-rumored and expected candidacy to take over as the new head of Albania’s football association, challenging incumbent president

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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?

Experts worried over neglect to Albania’s gems as two sites make it to Europe’s most endangered

Albania’s euroisation needs to drop by 10% to avoid annual losses of €67 mln, IMF experts say

Thousands rally to protest against government

Shrinking Albania: New, ‘silent’ migration trend hit record numbers in 2017

Fast-track procedures on new Vlora airport okayed amid environmental concerns

Albania revises growth, debt targets in optimistic scenario turned down by IMF, World Bank

Editorial: Albanians pay the bill for the government’s whims

As gov’t erodes property rights, Strasbourg rulings hit taxpayers hard

Cut in ministries fails to make public administration smaller

Editorial: IRTC-ARMO: A criminal story of corruption

Former Albania prime minister challenges incumbent football president’s 16-year reign

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