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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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Judiciary, economy reforms to lead PM Rama’s 2017-2021 new gov’t program

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TIRANA, Sept. 11 – Newly re-elected Prime Minister Edi Rama says the judiciary reform and the economy will be the focus of his Socialist Party’s second consecutive term in office for the

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Editorial: Albanian society has given up on itself

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By Jerina Zaloshnja Fildes Hafizi, a mother of two, was killed last week in Tirana by her ex-husband, a crime that exposed the frightening level of violence against women in Albanian society

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Outrage after judge killed in domestic violence attack

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TIRANA, Sept. 3 – There has been public outrage in Albania after a 39-year-old Shkodra judge, Fildes Hafizi, was shot dead in public in a Tirana’s Xhamlliku neighborhood on Aug. 31 by

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Dutch, French concerns over migrants, crime raise prospects of visa regime return

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TIRANA, Sept. 7 – Concerns over crime and irregular migration in the Netherlands and France are causing major headaches for Albanian officials, and the prospect of a return to a visa regime

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Albania’s fuel prices, already higher than in Germany and France, to face new hike

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TIRANA, Sept. 7 – Albania’s fuel prices, currently higher than some of Europe’s wealthiest countries, are expected to undergo another increase in the next few weeks as local government units have undertaken

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Paradoxical economic growth, wage decrease fails to produce welfare for Albanian households, experts warn

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TIRANA, Sept. 4 – The Albanian economy grew by a 6-year high of about 3.4 percent in 2016, but average wages in the country’s private and public sectors registered a paradoxical decline,

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Editorial: The more things change, the more they stay the same

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During the last Assembly of the Socialist Party a few days ago, in a speech much anticipated for weeks even months, the Prime Minister of Albania outlines the vision for the governance

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Manhunt continues for those involved in mailing AK-47 parts to UK

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TIRANA, Aug. 31 – A manhunt is underway in Albania and the United Kingdom for the people responsible of trying to smuggle weapons through the mail earlier this week. Albanian security and

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New Tirana waste-to-energy plant gets green light amid environmental concerns

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TIRANA, Aug. 30 – The Albanian government has launched contract negotiations with a Netherlands-based company that has been awarded a 30-year concession to build a waste-to-energy plant in Tirana, the third such

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Albania to slash hundreds of public sector jobs following drastic cut in ministries, gov’t agencies

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TIRANA, Aug. 30 – Hundreds of public administration employees will apparently lose their jobs following the drastic cut the new Socialist Party government out of the June 25 general elections has made

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Albania is an EU candidate for membership country.

Integration ministry’s dissolution, lack of mention in PM’s speech raises eyebrows

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TIRANA, Aug. 28 – Prime Minister Edi Rama’s failure to mention the Ministry for European Integration’s dissolution and merger with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a grand speech announcing his new

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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?

Judiciary, economy reforms to lead PM Rama’s 2017-2021 new gov’t program

Editorial: Albanian society has given up on itself

Outrage after judge killed in domestic violence attack

Dutch, French concerns over migrants, crime raise prospects of visa regime return

Albania’s fuel prices, already higher than in Germany and France, to face new hike

Paradoxical economic growth, wage decrease fails to produce welfare for Albanian households, experts warn

Editorial: The more things change, the more they stay the same

Manhunt continues for those involved in mailing AK-47 parts to UK

New Tirana waste-to-energy plant gets green light amid environmental concerns

Albania to slash hundreds of public sector jobs following drastic cut in ministries, gov’t agencies

Integration ministry’s dissolution, lack of mention in PM’s speech raises eyebrows

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