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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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EURALIUS caught in a translation spat

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TIRANA, Dec. 6 – Albania’s Democratic Party and representatives of the international community continue to disagree over the implementation of the Vetting Bill, part of the judicial reform which aims to root

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Editorial: The fabric of society is unraveling

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By Alba à‡ela Do not turn on your TV sets and don’t look at your phones. Every glance at the screen will cause one to shiver and squirm: Men who kill women

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Albania accumulates €105 mln in new unpaid bills

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TIRANA, Dec. 7 – Central and local government arrears have re-emerged as a risk to the country’s public finances after some €500 million was cleared in 2015 in payments to private sector

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Identifying potential markets and buyers emerges as exporters’ top concern

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TIRANA, Nov. 30 – Identifying potential markets and buyers is the most problematic factor for Albanian exporters who have been hit by a sharp cut in international commodity prices affecting the country’s

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Junior coalition partner against excise rate on vehicle LNG

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TIRANA, Dec. 1 – The Socialist Movement for Integration, the junior ally of the ruling Socialist Party, has officially opposed plans to impose an excise rate on vehicle liquefied natural gas, saying

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Albania-Kosovo trade exchanges continue to remain lower than with Serbia

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TIRANA, Nov. 30 – Behind political rhetoric of excellent economic cooperation with Kosovo, trade exchanges between the two countries are almost the same compared to Albania’s trade volume with Serbia and only

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In revealing interview, Nishani drops hints about post-presidency life

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TIRANA, Nov. 30 – President Bujar Nishani is considering returning to Albanian politics following the end of his mandate, he said in television interview this week. President Nishani said he would seek

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Vetting bill lost in translation

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TIRANA, Dec. 1 – Albania’s main opposition Democratic Party believes that the highly debated vetting bill sent for review at the Venice Commission has not been translated accurately. Therefore, it plans to

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Hold these suitcases please!

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By Jerina Zaloshnja At seven in the morning, on the third Tuesday in September of the year 2003, weighed down with some bags and all kinds of suitcases, I placed my foot

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EU accession talks won’t start before elections, Merkel says

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BERLIN, Nov. 28 – Five conditions that Albania must meet to continue EU accession negotiation talks still stand, and the negotiations would not open until after elections in Germany and Albania take

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Ruling MPs request 2-year freeze on new gambling law ahead of mid-2017 general elections

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TIRANA, Nov. 29 – With only a month to go before a law disciplining gambling in downtown areas become effective and few months before the mid-2017 general elections, several ruling majority MPs

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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?

EURALIUS caught in a translation spat

Editorial: The fabric of society is unraveling

Albania accumulates €105 mln in new unpaid bills

Identifying potential markets and buyers emerges as exporters’ top concern

Junior coalition partner against excise rate on vehicle LNG

Albania-Kosovo trade exchanges continue to remain lower than with Serbia

In revealing interview, Nishani drops hints about post-presidency life

Vetting bill lost in translation

Hold these suitcases please!

EU accession talks won’t start before elections, Merkel says

Ruling MPs request 2-year freeze on new gambling law ahead of mid-2017 general elections

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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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