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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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Citizens bring their own heaters to the maternity ward in Lezha to warm up newborns since central heating is missing. Photo: Screenshot from a video

Editorial: The scary healthcare trap in Albania

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There is a popular expression that one hears often in Albania, with various versions of it going: “If you don’t have health you don’t have anything” — “Health comes first” — “Let

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Open Society Foundation: Links among gangs, business, politics hamper freedom of expression

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TIRANA, Dec. 4 – The link among criminal gangs, business and politics has sharply evolved and become sophisticated during the past quarter of a century of Albania’s transition to democracy and market

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Albania floods: No major impact on GDP expected as key hydropower sector moves out of crisis

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TIRANA, Dec. 4 – The massive floods that affected central and southern Albania over last weekend are expected to have no major impact on the country’s GDP growth despite significant damage to

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First Albanian private-run stock exchange getting ready to offer new investment, financing alternatives

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TIRANA, Nov. 29 – The Albanian Securities Exchange is on track to launch its operations in the next few weeks as the country’s first privately-owned stock exchange serving as a new investment

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Albania mobile market reduced to three operators after Plus sale

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TIRANA, Nov. 27 – Ongoing financial straits and failure to meet investment requirements and keep up with its competitors led Plus Communication, the sole Albanian-owned mobile operator, to sell its operations to

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Tirana International Fair: Albania eyes new Chinese, Serbian investment

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TIRANA, Nov. 27 – Chinese and Serbian companies dominated this year’s 24th edition of the Tirana International Fair, Albania’s largest business fair, reconfirming interest in Albania as a hub to the Western

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Editorial: Governing for the 1 percent – or just five people

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There is an ongoing global debate about rising levels of inequality in the world and the various degrees of power that economic elites exert in comparison to others. The debate has made

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Marko Cadez: ‘Closer economic cooperation will lead to normalization of Serbia-Albania political relations’

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By Ervin Lisaku Serbia, Albania economic and trade relations are rapidly overcoming their historical barriers and gaining momentum and the Tirana International Fair, Albania’s traditional year-end business gathering where Serbian companies are

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Albania tasks ambassadors with bringing new investors to fill huge TAP, Devoll gap

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TIRANA, Nov. 22 – With some major energy-related investment nearing competition, Albania has tasked the country’s ambassadors and diplomatic representatives in more than 40 countries around the world with the difficult job

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Editorial: The red line: Setting a clear boundary between crime and politics

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Red lines in Albania when it comes to crime and politics have increasingly become blurry in recent years, and it is a subject this newspaper has addressed in length in the past,

9 years ago

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Analysis: Albanian-Greek relations reset: The risk of amateurism on the political and media side

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The two days summit that wrapped up this week in the island of Crete where the two Foreign Affairs Ministers of Albania and Greece with some of their closets staff sat down

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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?

Editorial: The scary healthcare trap in Albania

Open Society Foundation: Links among gangs, business, politics hamper freedom of expression

Albania floods: No major impact on GDP expected as key hydropower sector moves out of crisis

First Albanian private-run stock exchange getting ready to offer new investment, financing alternatives

Albania mobile market reduced to three operators after Plus sale

Tirana International Fair: Albania eyes new Chinese, Serbian investment

Editorial: Governing for the 1 percent – or just five people

Marko Cadez: ‘Closer economic cooperation will lead to normalization of Serbia-Albania political relations’

Albania tasks ambassadors with bringing new investors to fill huge TAP, Devoll gap

Editorial: The red line: Setting a clear boundary between crime and politics

Analysis: Albanian-Greek relations reset: The risk of amateurism on the political and media side

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

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