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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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Concerns mount as Constitutional Court postpones justice reform ruling

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TIRANA, July 20 – Albania’s Constitutional Court has postponed a decision on a lawsuit by two judges’ associations seeking to void aspects of three laws that are part of a major justice

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Editorial: Albania’s democracy needs a healthy opposition

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Albania’s main opposition Democratic Party will elect its leader this weekend at a time when the center-right party is defeated, divided and weak. The party has just gone through the worst defeat

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Albanian experts divided over Regional Economic Area benefits

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TIRANA, July 18 – Few days after Western Balkans signed an EU-mediated deal on a regional economic area, Albanian economy experts seem divided on the benefits of the cooperation agreement that is

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Central bank warns Albanians not to invest in Bitcoin

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TIRANA, July 14 – Albania’s central bank has warned potential investors of a series of risks related to investing in digital currency such as Bitcoin, the primary cryptocurrency. The warning comes following

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A journalist for one of Albania's investigative news shows was hit several times by a company manager and shareholder, Mirela Topulli, as the journalist confronted her about the waste dump. (Photo: TV Klan screen grab)

Medical waste dumped on river bank causes uproar

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TIRANA, June 12 – A medical waste company, Euroteam, has been caught on camera dumping untreated dangerous hospital waste on a river bank in the Tirana outskirts, following an investigation by a

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The two candidates running to become the leader of Albania's main opposition Democratic Party, Lulzim Basha and Eduard Selami, walk with the party's historic leader Sali Berisha (center). (Photo: Archives)

Controversy accompanies DP leadership campaign

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TIRANA, July 13 – The two candidates running to become the leader of Albania’s main opposition Democratic Party, Lulzim Basha and Eduard Selami, are continuing their campaign tours around the country offering

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Editorial: The digital government stuck in the virtual reality

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The new craze of the majority which won the last elections convincingly is establishing an online platform for co-governing with the people. Used to have a coalition partner, albeit one that poked

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Editorial: Dismantling a few myths about state administration political capture and its solutions

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A central and local public administration that turns over every time there are elections, full of party militants and often sadly incapable, untrained and low quality public servants is a long-time plague

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BoA: Chinese companies likely used Canada, tax havens for major Albania investments

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TIRANA, July 5 – Chinese companies invested more than $600 million in two major oil and airport acquisitions in Albania last year, but official data shows the stock of Chinese foreign direct

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Albania’s central bank to apply de-euroisation measures

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TIRANA, July 4 – Albania’s central bank says it is in its final stage of concluding a de-euroisation strategy and intends to launch its implementation next year in a bid to accelerate

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Editorial: Elections: The present and the future of a democratic society

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Parliamentary elections are a good time to evaluate the functioning of democracy in a country like Albania. Was this electoral process better than previous ones? Is Albanian society more democratic now than

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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?

Concerns mount as Constitutional Court postpones justice reform ruling

Editorial: Albania’s democracy needs a healthy opposition

Albanian experts divided over Regional Economic Area benefits

Central bank warns Albanians not to invest in Bitcoin

Medical waste dumped on river bank causes uproar

Controversy accompanies DP leadership campaign

Editorial: The digital government stuck in the virtual reality

Editorial: Dismantling a few myths about state administration political capture and its solutions

BoA: Chinese companies likely used Canada, tax havens for major Albania investments

Albania’s central bank to apply de-euroisation measures

Editorial: Elections: The present and the future of a democratic society

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