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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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Albania announces de-euroisation strategy

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TIRANA, March 14 – Albania’s central bank says it is undertaking measures to implement a de-eurisation strategy that would accelerate the reduction of the current high levels of foreign currency in the

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Austrian-Polish-Albanian JV gets 30-year concession to monitor gambling industry

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TIRANA, March 8 – An Austrian-Polish-Albanian joint venture has won the right to set up, operate and maintain an online central monitoring system on Albania’s gambling industry for the next 30 years

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Heading for crisis, opposition withdraws elections registration

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TIRANA, March 9 – In a new escalation of the political crisis in Albania, the opposition says it will withdraw its registration with the Central Elections Commission, taking the first official step

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The waste came to Albania via ships, claims in Italian media say. (Photo for illustration purposes only)

Claims of Italian hazardous waste secretly dumped in Albania under investigation

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TIRANA, March 8 – Prosecutors in Durres have launched an investigation over suspicions that large amounts of hazardous waste from Italy entered Albania last summer to be illegally dumped. The waste was

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Reflecting on women in Albania instead of a well-deserved party

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By Alba à‡ela The beginning of the month of March in Albania brings along with the new season two important holidays, 7 and 8 of March respectively Teachers’ Day and Women’s Day.

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News analysis: Is the EU neglecting the political crisis in Albania?

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EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini said in Tirana earlier this week that Albania has a real chance at clinching accession talks. It was a bit of

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EU export quota hold back growth for emerging fish industry

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TIRANA, March 9 – Albania’s emerging fish processing industry has been suffering in the past few years as its rapid growth has led to companies meeting the EU duty free export quotas

9 years ago

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Matryoshkas and friends

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By Genc Pollo* The matryoshkas are a set of egg-shaped, empty, wooden dolls painted as a mature woman and they fit into one another from the smaller to the biggest one. They

9 years ago

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Experts petition against gov’t bypass project in UNESCO-listed Gjirokastra

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TIRANA, March 7 – Architects, academics and culture heritage specialists have come together to strongly oppose government plans to build a bypass in Gjirokastra, a UNESCO World Heritage site in southern Albania,

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Signs of compromise to overcome political deadlock emerge as Mogherini visits Albania

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TIRANA, March 5 – Albania’s political leaders showed signs of compromise on Friday as the opposition staged their 14th days of protest over free and fair elections and EU foreign policy chief

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Showcasing Albania – Natasha Korn

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By Alan Andoni Natasha Korn lives in Albania. She is a designer but to say that does her little justice. To put it concisely, Natasha Korn is one of Albania’s foremost ambassadors,

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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?

Albania announces de-euroisation strategy

Austrian-Polish-Albanian JV gets 30-year concession to monitor gambling industry

Heading for crisis, opposition withdraws elections registration

Claims of Italian hazardous waste secretly dumped in Albania under investigation

Reflecting on women in Albania instead of a well-deserved party

News analysis: Is the EU neglecting the political crisis in Albania?

EU export quota hold back growth for emerging fish industry

Matryoshkas and friends

Experts petition against gov’t bypass project in UNESCO-listed Gjirokastra

Signs of compromise to overcome political deadlock emerge as Mogherini visits Albania

Showcasing Albania – Natasha Korn

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United Arab Emirates ‘s Expanding Influence in Albania – Financial and Political Concerns

News Analysis: A Geopolitical Shift in the Western Balkans?

In a depopulating Albania, why is the PM campaigning on a promise to make it easier for young people to leave?

Op/Ed: Is Albania slipping into a one-party system?

From staunch enemy to strategic partner: Albanian-American relations in transition

Editorial: Returning to the real agenda of Albania -Kosovo relations: start with respect.

Albanian-Turkish relations: The perils of change

Deconstructing myths in Albanian-U.S. relations

Concerns raised as Tirana mulls exiting ICSID over Becchetti affair €120-million judgement

Why Albania’s domestic PR wars are being fought abroad

Albania Closes First EU Chapters, Hard Tests Ahead

Kanye West in Tirana: Has a Global Spectacle Become a Political Backfire?

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