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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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Editorial: Oil concessions in Albania: The rich, the poor and the dirty

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The inhabitants of Zharrez, a small village of the Fier region, which has suffered considerable damage due to fracking by the companies that extract oil there, were not put off by the

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Gov’t promises to fully pay for Zharrez damages

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TIRANA, March 1 – Albania’s government has approved a package of measures that guarantees residents of Zharrez and surrounding areas that there will be a full compensation for all damages done to

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IMF: Uncertainties related to the elections put economy at risk

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TIRANA, March 1 – As a 3-year binding deal with the International Monetary Fund came to an end this month and prospects of a renewed agreement were delayed after next June’s general

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Genoveva Ruiz Calavera, Director for Western Balkans at the Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations of the European Commission, and chair of the International Monitoring Operation (IMO) Management Board. (Photo: Courtesy of Europa.ba)

EU replies to SMI concerns over justice vetting implementation

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TIRANA, Feb. 28 – A justice reform body that has raised concern among members of the government has a purely administrative, not executive, role and should not be seen through those lenses,

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Edmond Spaho, deputy head of Albania's main opposition Democratic Party. (Photo: DP Handout)

Basha’s ‘war’ cry taken out of context, deputy says

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TIRANA, Feb. 27 – Harsh language used during an ongoing protest by Democratic Party leader Lulzim Basha was not a call to violence in what has been a peaceful protest, but rather

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Cannabis trafficking from Albania to Italy tripled last year, Italian prosecutor says

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TIRANA, Feb. 25 – Italy’s nationwide anti-mafia prosecutor, Franco Roberti, who visited Albania last week, said that cannabis traffic from Albania to Italy tripled last year. In a press conference after a

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Opposition leader Lulzim Basha at a protest rally. (Photo: DP handout)

Calling for caretaker gov’t to protect free elections, opposition continues protest

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TIRANA, Feb. 23 – Albania’s opposition is continuing its indefinite protest in front of the prime minister’s office and opposition leaders said the Democratic Party will not return to parliament until a

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Vetting must not be used to influence prosecutors’ work, Llalla says

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SHKODER, Feb. 20 – Prosecutor-General Adriatik Llalla said this week the evaluation process for the judges and prosecutors, also known as the vetting process, must not be used as a tool to

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Editorial: Caretaker governments are needed to protect all elections

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In its 12 years in print, this newspaper has supported without any hesitation every effort and action that ensures that Albanian elections are free, fair and democratic. The ongoing protest Albania’s opposition

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A tent without the pole

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By Alba à‡ela Last Saturday, the opposition political parties called their supporters and other citizens to protest against the current government and governance. At the end of the protest they built up

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Based in Tirana, Ambassador Romana Vlahutin heads the EU Delegation to Albania. (Photo: PDP)

News analysis: Head of delegation bias hurting EU’s credibility among Albanians, opposition warns

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TIRANA, Feb. 22 – When Knut Fleckenstein, the European Parliament’s standing rapporteur on Albania, met with Lulzim Basha, Albania’s opposition leader, this week, there was one person the opposition did not want

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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?

Editorial: Oil concessions in Albania: The rich, the poor and the dirty

Gov’t promises to fully pay for Zharrez damages

IMF: Uncertainties related to the elections put economy at risk

EU replies to SMI concerns over justice vetting implementation

Basha’s ‘war’ cry taken out of context, deputy says

Cannabis trafficking from Albania to Italy tripled last year, Italian prosecutor says

Calling for caretaker gov’t to protect free elections, opposition continues protest

Vetting must not be used to influence prosecutors’ work, Llalla says

Editorial: Caretaker governments are needed to protect all elections

A tent without the pole

News analysis: Head of delegation bias hurting EU’s credibility among Albanians, opposition warns

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