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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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Police offer cash reward for suspected drug kingpin’s arrest

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TIRANA, Feb.1 – Albania’s State Police is offering about $40,000 in a cash reward for anyone who can give reliable information leading to the arrest of Klement Balili, former local government official

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Prosecutors to reopen case against Tirana’s Appeals Court judge

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ELBASAN, Feb. 1 – Prosecutors have decided to reopen the case against Gjin Gjoni, a judge in Tirana’s Appeals Court who in 2015 was accused of hiding his wealth and falsifying documents.

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Former State Archives director Nevila Nika

Many communist-era files have disappeared, former archives director says

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TIRANA, Jan. 30 – The main institution assigned to implement the law on opening up communist-era secret police files has pledged to publish the first results by Feb. 10. The body which

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Ruling coalition allies sticking together — for now

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TIRANA, Feb. 1 – Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and his biggest parliamentary ally, Ilir Meta, don’t see eye to eye on the next parliamentary elections. During a meeting of the chairmanship

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Spoiling for a fight?

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By Alan Andoni* Warren Anderson’s article last week in support of trump (The beginning of a new, stronger, prouder America) was a litany of insults, threats and generalisations. Whether you support Donald

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Reexamining the concepts and philosophy of Robert Schuman for the EU future

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Comments by AIIS Executive Director Albert Rakipi for the DW on the occasion of the publication of Robert Schuman’s book in Albanian. What puts today at risk the political European project

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Ousted minister says accusing gov’t of corruption led to sacking

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TIRANA, Jan. 31 – Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has sacked Justice Minister Ylli Manjani, a maverick representative of the junior coalition partner who had made direct accusations of ties between government

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New party representing those persecuted under communism formed

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TIRANA, Jan. 30 – A new political party – Popular Alliance for Justice — which has pledged to represent those who were politically persecuted under Albania’s brutal communist regime was launched in

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Key rate to remain at historic low until late 2017, cbank says

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TIRANA, Feb. 2 – Albania’s central bank says it will continue keeping the key rate at its historic low of 1.25 percent at least until late 2017, governor Gent Sejko has said.

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Albanians take to legal Germany migration after massive asylum refusal

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TIRANA, Jan. 30 – Thousands of Albanians who had their asylum requests to Germany turned down in the past couple of years are thinking of leaving the country again, but this time

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New campaign targets fighting tax evasion among artists

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TIRANA, Jan. 30 – Spared by a tough nationwide campaign against informality a couple of years ago, the Socialist Party-led government has now turned to artists and the creative industry to discipline

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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?

Police offer cash reward for suspected drug kingpin’s arrest

Prosecutors to reopen case against Tirana’s Appeals Court judge

Many communist-era files have disappeared, former archives director says

Ruling coalition allies sticking together — for now

Spoiling for a fight?

Reexamining the concepts and philosophy of Robert Schuman for the EU future

Ousted minister says accusing gov’t of corruption led to sacking

New party representing those persecuted under communism formed

Key rate to remain at historic low until late 2017, cbank says

Albanians take to legal Germany migration after massive asylum refusal

New campaign targets fighting tax evasion among artists

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