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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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NATO General: The Alliance sees the region’s future in Euro-Atlantic integration

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Interview by Ani Ruci with General Petr Pavel, the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee What is NATO planning to do to strengthen security in a fragile region such as the Western

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Tax rates, corruption top business concerns as Albania climbs to 75th in global competitiveness

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TIRANA, Sept. 27 – Albania climbed 5 steps to rank 75th among 137 economies globally in the 2017-2018 Global Competitiveness report, but tax rates and corruption remained the top two concerns for

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Concern mounts as €5 tolls ready to be introduced on Albania-Kosovo highway

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TIRANA, Sept. 26 – The Durres-Kukes highway linking Albania to Kosovo is on track to become the country’s first toll road next December as the concessionaire completes the installation of electronic toll

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Businesses offered ‘carrot and stick’ with new tax evasion campaign, easier procedures

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TIRANA, Sept. 25 – The Socialist Party government has announced a new campaign against informality and measures to further ease doing business procedures starting October 2017 in a carrot and stick approach

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Shifting to the right priorities in foreign policy

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By ALBERT RAKIPI Albania’s parliamentary commission on foreign relations had its first meeting in the new legislature, and according to media reports, the head of the commission said that the current priority

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Analysis: The trash never left

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By SIDONJA MANUSHI The law on integrated waste management – a concern of civil society, which received past media attention and criticism from the ranks of Albanian intellectuals and activists – is

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Call center guru turned MP condemns UK banks’ policy refusing accounts to Albanian politicians

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TIRANA, Sept. 15 – Albania’s call center guru turned politician Agron Shehaj says he was surprised to learn that he had his bank account in England closed down soon after he was

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Editorial: European integration: a fleeting dream or still a guiding compass for Albania?

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The last State of the Union address from Commissioner Juncker made a brief mention of enlargement, comforting enough for some, yet re-iterating the negation of any significant enlargement decisions until spring of

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Ambassador Jiang Yu: ‘China is a constructive player in the Balkans’

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Interview by Tirana Times Director Jerina Zaloshnja with the Chinese Ambassador to Albania , Jiang Yu TT: Thank you very much Ambassador, it is a great pleasure to have an opportunity

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Tax Administration: Bankers Petroleum, among the big debtor companies in Albania

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TIRANA, Sept. 14 – More than 18,500 companies, including leading companies, owe Albania’s tax administration a huge 147 billion lek (about €1.1 billion), according to the General Tax Directorate. Among the debtor

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Banja hydropower plant, part of the Devoll HPP being built by Norway's Statkraft

BoA: Lack of new major projects, political deadlock negatively affected FDI in year’s first half

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TIRANA, Sept. 12 – With no new major foreign investment in sight and a prolonged political deadlock ahead of the June 25 general elections, FDI suffered a blow in the first half

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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?

NATO General: The Alliance sees the region’s future in Euro-Atlantic integration

Tax rates, corruption top business concerns as Albania climbs to 75th in global competitiveness

Concern mounts as €5 tolls ready to be introduced on Albania-Kosovo highway

Businesses offered ‘carrot and stick’ with new tax evasion campaign, easier procedures

Shifting to the right priorities in foreign policy

Analysis: The trash never left

Call center guru turned MP condemns UK banks’ policy refusing accounts to Albanian politicians

Editorial: European integration: a fleeting dream or still a guiding compass for Albania?

Ambassador Jiang Yu: ‘China is a constructive player in the Balkans’

Tax Administration: Bankers Petroleum, among the big debtor companies in Albania

BoA: Lack of new major projects, political deadlock negatively affected FDI in year’s first half

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