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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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Wanted: A strategic vision to re-set of the economy

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL As the public health crisis of Covid-19 seems still far from receding, despite controlled numbers of hospitalizations and losses, the full blown effects of the economic damage are starting

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Editorial: Crisis management 2.0 – collaboration instead of intimidation

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL Intimidation has been the primary tool of the current administration and especially of Prime Minister Rama in trying to reinforce the measures necessary for the management of the Covid-19

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Editorial: Accession negotiations- don’t pretend to ignore the long list of conditions!

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL The important decision of the Council of the EU to finally give the green light to Albania and North Macedonia regarding the opening of accession negotiations was received with

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Albania-Kosovo: How to build a strategic agenda

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By Albert Rakipi The first visit to Tirana last week by Kosovo’s new Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, once again exposed the tensions in the Albania-Kosovo relationship, and the existence of disagreements about

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News analysis: COVID-19 and international assistance to Albania

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In his frequent addresses via social media to the Albanian public on the Covid-19 crisis and measures, Prime Minister Edi Rama often claims that Albania is in this war alone and that

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Editorial: Economic salvation cannot depend on banks

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL In the midst of the public health emergency of the Covid-19 the horror of a severe and crippling economic crisis is just a few days away, when at the

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One crisis now and another longer one yet to come

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It is natural and expectable to be engulfed in the rushed, almost panicky mood of the moment, trying to do the best to restrain the epidemic of the Covid-19. Of course containment

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Editorial: Getting the house in order requires everyone on board

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It is the simplest example in every household or even dorm room or that unless everyone is on board one can never succeed to clean up the mess and make it look

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Capital amnesty may legitimize criminal assets

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Interview with Dr. Zef Preci, Director of Albanian Center for Economic Research (ACER) Mr Preci thank you for this interview with Tirana Times. I want to start by asking your expert insights

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Editorial: The virus, the fear and the struggle to prepare

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL Albania is still spared the experience of having confirmed infected people with the coronavirus (COVID- 19) that is wreaking havoc in many countries across the globe, and most importantly

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Editorial: The key messages out of the donors’ conference for Albania and the region

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL This week started with an important international donors’ conference in Brussels to assist Albania’s efforts of reconstruction after the destructive earthquake of November 26 which claimed more than 50

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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?

Wanted: A strategic vision to re-set of the economy

Editorial: Crisis management 2.0 – collaboration instead of intimidation

Editorial: Accession negotiations- don’t pretend to ignore the long list of conditions!

Albania-Kosovo: How to build a strategic agenda

News analysis: COVID-19 and international assistance to Albania

Editorial: Economic salvation cannot depend on banks

One crisis now and another longer one yet to come

Editorial: Getting the house in order requires everyone on board

Capital amnesty may legitimize criminal assets

Editorial: The virus, the fear and the struggle to prepare

Editorial: The key messages out of the donors’ conference for Albania and the region

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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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