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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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Chestnuts, Tropoja’s bread tree at risk following decades of neglect

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TIRANA, Jan. 11 – The Tropoja chestnuts, found in massive plantations in northeastern Albania, are rapidly penetrating EU markets as the best that Albania produces, with Italy on top of list, but

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Albania, Jerusalem and two resolutions

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By Genc Pollo* To describe how the government explained its approval of the America bashing Final Communique of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in Istanbul and its vote at the

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First Albania Hilton hotel set to replace surprise Sheraton Tirana departure

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TIRANA, Jan. 8 – As a package of tax incentives aimed at attracting luxury tourism investment has just become effective, Sheraton Tirana, the country’s most internationally renowned brand, has left the country,

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Oil refiner’s tax debts mount to €135 mln after a decade of failure in private hands

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TIRANA, Jan. 7 – The suspension of work at Albania’s largest oil refiner, a routine process in the past decade since its failed 2008 privatization has left hundreds of oil workers jobless

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Albert Rakipi: Albanian vote at UN a normal diplomatic move, issue being politicized

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Q: Albania joined many other countries at the UN to vote against President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Will this vote affect relations between the United States and Albania?

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Albania in 2018: Finding a balance between chaos and hope

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It has been a difficult year yet the balance sheet at the end is somehow positive for Albania, especially when compared to alternative negative scenarios that could have materialized. Going through two

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Albania not immune to bitcoin bubble, experts warn

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TIRANA, Dec. 26 – As the bitcoin bubble continues amid warnings of a crash in 2018, hundreds of Albanians are estimated to have invested in the world’s primary cryptocurrency whose value soared

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Yannoulatos granted Albanian citizenship after 25 years as head of Orthodox Church

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TIRANA, Dec. 26 – Albania’s president, Ilir Meta, has granted Albanian citizenship to Archibishop Anastasios Yannoulatos – the Greek-born leader of Albania’s Autocephalous Orthodox Church for more than 25 years. The archbishop

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2018 prospects: What to expect from the Albanian economy

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By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Dec. 26 – The Albanian economy is heading to 2018 amid a mixed picture of recovering but still below potential economic growth, mainly relying on some major-energy related

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Clashes in parliament as ruling Socialists swear in new chief prosecutor, opposition protests

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TIRANA, Dec. 18 – Clashes took place inside and outside Albania’s parliament Monday as a new chief prosecutor was sworn in. In a vote along party lines, 69 ruling Socialist Party lawmakers

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Editorial: A bad omen for Albanian democracy

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Albania’s parliament has once again this week shown in a spectacular way that it lacks understanding of how parliamentarism works in a democratic society. The election of the temporary general prosecutor happened

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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?

Chestnuts, Tropoja’s bread tree at risk following decades of neglect

Albania, Jerusalem and two resolutions

First Albania Hilton hotel set to replace surprise Sheraton Tirana departure

Oil refiner’s tax debts mount to €135 mln after a decade of failure in private hands

Albert Rakipi: Albanian vote at UN a normal diplomatic move, issue being politicized

Albania in 2018: Finding a balance between chaos and hope

Albania not immune to bitcoin bubble, experts warn

Yannoulatos granted Albanian citizenship after 25 years as head of Orthodox Church

2018 prospects: What to expect from the Albanian economy

Clashes in parliament as ruling Socialists swear in new chief prosecutor, opposition protests

Editorial: A bad omen for Albanian democracy

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

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