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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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Budget approved amid bitter political fight

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TIRANA, Nov. 16 – Albania’s parliament is set to approve the country’s 2018 state budget with only the votes of the ruling Socialist Party, following a bitter political fight in parliament that

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Reciprocal sanctions remain key barrier for modest Albania-Russia trade, investment ties

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TIRANA, Nov. 14 – Albania’s 2015 joining of EU sanctions over Russia’s annexation of Crimea and Russia’s countersanctions are holding back economic and trade relations between the two countries which have been

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Albania offers incentives for liquid gas-fired thermal power plants as TAP nears completion

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TIRANA, Nov. 14 – Albania is targeting to offer public private partnership incentives for the construction of new hydro and liquid gas-fired thermal power plants, worth more than €100 million as the

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Slovenia’s Economy Minister: Aware of Albanian market potential

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By Rudina Hoxha Zdravko PoÄivalŠ¡ek, Minister of Economic Development and Technology of Slovenia, accompanied by 24 Slovenian companies, paid a visit to Albania early this week demonstrating the full will of his

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Albania faces staggering €2 bln threat in potential arbitration losses, leaked document unveils

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TIRANA, Nov. 8 – At a time when Albania has already introduced its 2018 budget and fiscal package, a leaked confidential document showing that Albania faces the threat of being punished with

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PM Rama launches new rule of law campaigns amid tense political climate

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TIRANA, Nov. 6 – In similar style to the beginning of the first 2013-2017 mandate, Socialist Party Prime Minister Edi Rama who was few months ago re-elected to rule the country for

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Editorial: Citizens need to know why the intelligence chief resigned

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Visho Ajazi, the head of Albania’s intelligence service, SHISH, has resigned without giving any reasons for his decision. This abrupt resignation has raised many questions, particularly because it happened in the context

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The man who built a temple at 82-years of age

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By Eduard Alia Earlier this year I read an article about a man in Spain who had devoted his life’s work to build a cathedral. It was a fascinating story –

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Resignation of chief spy leaves unanswered questions

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TIRANA, Nov. 1 – Visho Ajazi Lika, who served as head of Albania’s State Intelligence Service (SHISH) for five years, has resigned from his post, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a

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Doing Business 2018: Albania’s business climate deteriorates, regional competitors gain ground

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TIRANA, Oct. 31 – Albania lost seven places to rank 65th among 190 economies in the 2018 Doing Business report, lagging behind almost all regional competitors which made considerable progress over the

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Inequality gap widens as richest 10% spend 3.5 times more

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TIRANA, Oct. 31 – Albania’s inequality gap widened in 2016 as the richest 10 percent of households spent 2.5 times more than the overwhelming 90 percent of Albanians, an annual survey conducted

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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?

Budget approved amid bitter political fight

Reciprocal sanctions remain key barrier for modest Albania-Russia trade, investment ties

Albania offers incentives for liquid gas-fired thermal power plants as TAP nears completion

Slovenia’s Economy Minister: Aware of Albanian market potential

Albania faces staggering €2 bln threat in potential arbitration losses, leaked document unveils

PM Rama launches new rule of law campaigns amid tense political climate

Editorial: Citizens need to know why the intelligence chief resigned

The man who built a temple at 82-years of age

Resignation of chief spy leaves unanswered questions

Doing Business 2018: Albania’s business climate deteriorates, regional competitors gain ground

Inequality gap widens as richest 10% spend 3.5 times more

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