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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 mulls minimum wage hike after three-year freeze

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TIRANA, Feb. 21 – Albania is mulling a hike in the minimum wage, currently the region’s lowest at €157, amid debates by unionists demanding a high increase after a three-year freeze and

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Banja hydropower plant, part of the Devoll HPP being built by Norway's Statkraft

Rainfall, new HPPs increase domestic electricity generation

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TIRANA, Feb. 20 – The favourable hydro-situation and the launch of several new private and concession hydropower plants, including the Banja HPP by Norway’s Statkraft in late 2016, gave a boost to

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Eurostat: Albania, one of Europe’s least dependents on fossil fuel imports

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TIRANA, Feb. 20 – The rapid development of the country’s oil industry in the past decade has turned Albania into one of Europe’s top three least dependent countries on imports of fossil

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Editorial: The tax of shame starts at 6.5 percent

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Another week, another breathtaking scandal as a armoured vehicle transporting large amounts of money was stopped and robbed on its way to the airport. None of the security measures which are mandatory

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Walking through the chaotic Tirana – Thoughts of a citizen from abroad

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By Baldur Baldoni* With the beginning of spring I start spending more time on the streets of Tirana. By walking to meetings or for shopping one gains many impressions and this stimulates

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Albania's parliament (Photo: PoA Handout)

Nine more elected representatives could lose jobs over suspected criminal records

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TIRANA, Feb. 15 – The General Prosecutor’s Office is seeking further information on nine elected representatives — members of parliament and mayors — it suspects of hiding brushes with the law in

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Business climate rated as unfavorable by two-thirds of investors

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TIRANA, Feb. 16 – Two-thirds of businesses in Albania consider the business climate unfavorable with courts, corruption and frequent changes in legislation and tax procedures as the top concerns, according to a

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Prime Minister Edi Rama and Tirana Mayor Erion Veliaj walk in a construction area. (Photo: GoA/Facebook)

News analysis: Already in campaign mode, political leaders pin hopes on promises of public spending, tax cuts

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By Urita Dokle TIRANA, Feb. 16 – The electoral campaign period officially starts one month ahead of the June 18 parliamentary elections, but most political leaders are already on the campaign trail

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Albania loses ground in global economic freedom index

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TIRANA, Feb. 15 – Albania lost six places to rank 65th among 180 world economies in the 2017 Index of Economic Freedom, maintaining its rating as a moderately free economy, but remaining

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Op-ed: Show-off early campaign promises spell trouble for taxpayers

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Albania’s ruling Socialist Party is opening taxpayer-funded state coffers for large show-off projects ahead of the parliamentary elections in June, leading to concerns among taxpayer advocates and opposition representatives who say the

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Uncertainties over upcoming June elections pose threats to economy, EU report warns

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TIRANA, Feb. 14 – Increased uncertainties over the upcoming June 2017 elections, a longer than expected credit recovery and the conclusion of a three-year deal with the International Monetary Fund could

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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 mulls minimum wage hike after three-year freeze

Rainfall, new HPPs increase domestic electricity generation

Eurostat: Albania, one of Europe’s least dependents on fossil fuel imports

Editorial: The tax of shame starts at 6.5 percent

Walking through the chaotic Tirana – Thoughts of a citizen from abroad

Nine more elected representatives could lose jobs over suspected criminal records

Business climate rated as unfavorable by two-thirds of investors

News analysis: Already in campaign mode, political leaders pin hopes on promises of public spending, tax cuts

Albania loses ground in global economic freedom index

Op-ed: Show-off early campaign promises spell trouble for taxpayers

Uncertainties over upcoming June elections pose threats to economy, EU report warns

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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

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Why Albania’s domestic PR wars are being fought abroad

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