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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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Socialist Party hires services of lobbying firm with ties to Donald Trump

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TIRANA, April 17 – The Socialist Party of Albania has hired Ballard Partners, a Florida-based firm with ties to U.S. President Donald Trump for “advising, counseling, and assisting the foreign principal in

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Prime Minister Edi Rama of the Socialist Party and Speaker of Parliament Ilir Meta of the Socialist Movement for Integration. (Photo: SP/SMI 2013 campaign)

Main ruling parties do not register as coalition at the CEC

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TIRANA, April 20 – Albania’s main ruling parties, the Socialist Party and the Socialist Movement for Integration, have filed a request to the Central Election Commission, demanding the extension of the deadline

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Suspected of working with cartels, several police stations see purges

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TIRANA, April 20 – At least 10 police officers and eight customs officials at the port of Durres and at the Qafe Thane border point were arrested Monday, following suspicions that they

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Environmentalists slam Kosovo billionaire’s national park development project as dangerous

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TIRANA, April 20 – Plans to develop a luxury tourist resort in a protected national park and lagoon along the Adriatic just 80 km south of Tirana have sparked concerns by environmental

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Rising cannabis cultivation blamed for massive bee losses

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TIRANA, April 17 – The massive nationwide cannabis cultivation even after the mid-2015 crackdown on the notorious internationally renowned marijuana-growing village of Lazarat, southern Albania, is having detrimental effects on the key

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Editorial: May we live in interesting times

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There is an old Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.” And it sure is an interesting time in Albania. The political crisis is ongoing, with what appears to be no

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Albanian company gets bonus for offering to complete Arbri Road for €245 mln

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By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, April 13 – Two months ahead of the upcoming general elections, the ruling Socialist Party-led government has made a new effort to reactivate a major highway project linking

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Chinese Vice Premier’s visit expected to herald new era in Sino-Albanian relations

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TIRANA, April 11 – China’s Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli will visit Albania in the next few days in what is expected to be the highest level government delegation in five decades as

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Week sets new record in cannabis seizures

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TIRANA, April 9 – Police have seized a record 12 tons of marijuana worth more than $7 million hidden inside an abandoned state-owned warehouse in the southern Albanian village of Pagri, near

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Opposition sets protest rally for Kavaja byelection day

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TIRANA, April 10 – The Democratic Party of Albania and other opposition parties plan to hold a national protest on May 7 in Kavaja, on the same day that the western city

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World Bank: Uncertainties related to June 18 elections pose threat to growth prospects

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TIRANA, April 10 – Economic and political uncertainties resulting from both internal and external factors could put Albania’s growth prospects at risk in the short to medium run as the country heads

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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?

Socialist Party hires services of lobbying firm with ties to Donald Trump

Main ruling parties do not register as coalition at the CEC

Suspected of working with cartels, several police stations see purges

Environmentalists slam Kosovo billionaire’s national park development project as dangerous

Rising cannabis cultivation blamed for massive bee losses

Editorial: May we live in interesting times

Albanian company gets bonus for offering to complete Arbri Road for €245 mln

Chinese Vice Premier’s visit expected to herald new era in Sino-Albanian relations

Week sets new record in cannabis seizures

Opposition sets protest rally for Kavaja byelection day

World Bank: Uncertainties related to June 18 elections pose threat to growth prospects

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