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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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Gov’t approves deeds for illegal building additions

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TIRANA, Jan. 12 – Nearly 30,000 families all over Albania that have purchased their homes in buildings constructed in violation of the construction permits will finally be able to receive their mortgage

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Former CEC chairman moves to parliament advisory role

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TIRANA, Jan. 12 – Former chairperson of Albania’s Central Election Commission, Lefterie Luzi has been appointed director of the Parliamentary Committees Services in the parliament. Luzi was reinstated to the public administration

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Freezing weather causes severe damage to greenhouse crops

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TIRANA, Jan. 11 – Uncommon freezing temperatures that have swept Albania during the past few days are having a negative impact on the Albanian economy, especially the key agriculture sector with hundreds

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The need to publish MP candidate lists at least 90 days ahead of the upcoming June 18 general elections

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By Zef Preà§i* Considering the institutional and political positive developments, especially the constitutional amendments of the summer of 2016 and the beginning of implementation of the law on decriminalization, I would like

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Tender launched to select Tirana interurban bus terminal concessionaire

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TIRANA, Jan. 10 – All intercity buses linking Tirana to northern and southern destinations will be located at a new terminal at the entry of Tirana-Durres highway. The municipality of Tirana has

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INSTAT: Average inflation hit 16-year low of 1.3% in 2016

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TIRANA, Jan. 9 – Albania’s annual average inflation rate hit a 16-year low of 1.3 percent in 2016, reflecting a slump in global oil and food prices, but also sluggish domestic consumption

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Albanians face higher liquid gas, fuel prices in early days of 2017

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TIRANA, Jan. 9 – Albanians are facing higher liquid gas and oil prices in the first days of 2017 as a new excise rate has been imposed on vehicle liquid gas and

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Year-end oil sales of €45 mln save 2016 budget from new cut

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TIRANA, Jan. 4 – The Albanian government collected about €45 million from the sale of some 167,000 metric tons of crude oil last December in a much-needed operation as oil prices slightly

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CEZ affair: Albania bought EU candidate status for €479 mln?

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TIRANA, Dec. 29 – Prime Minister Edi Rama has for the first time admitted Albania feared a Czech Republic veto over the country’s 2014 EU candidate status bid in settling a controversial

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Explore Albania! But how?

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By Alan Andoni* Albanians are quite rightly proud of their country’s beaches and mountains. Albania’s politicians have underlined the potential of tourism that would not only bring in badly-needed foreign capital

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Pre-electoral tender on new €100 mln medical lab PPP sparks outcry

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TIRANA, Dec. 26 – Plans to award a new costly concession of about €100 million in the public health sector next February, only four months ahead of the upcoming June general elections,

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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?

Gov’t approves deeds for illegal building additions

Former CEC chairman moves to parliament advisory role

Freezing weather causes severe damage to greenhouse crops

The need to publish MP candidate lists at least 90 days ahead of the upcoming June 18 general elections

Tender launched to select Tirana interurban bus terminal concessionaire

INSTAT: Average inflation hit 16-year low of 1.3% in 2016

Albanians face higher liquid gas, fuel prices in early days of 2017

Year-end oil sales of €45 mln save 2016 budget from new cut

CEZ affair: Albania bought EU candidate status for €479 mln?

Explore Albania! But how?

Pre-electoral tender on new €100 mln medical lab PPP sparks outcry

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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

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