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Albania’s Cash Boom Raises Money Laundering Concerns

Cash outside Albania’s banking system reached a record 5.6 billion euros, last month. Tirana Times, August 30, 2026 – The amount of cash circulating outside Albania’s banking system has reached a record

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Prime Minister Rama, Former Deputy PM Ministedr Balluku and Mr. Bexhet Pacolli

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Vlora Airport Heads to Arbitration

Albania faces another potentially costly international dispute after losing several arbitration cases in recent years that have exposed the state to hundreds of millions of euros in compensation and related liabilities. Tirana

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Concrete, Cocaine and Corruption: Albania’s Fragile Growth Model

Albania’s Concrete Economy: How Construction Became the Country’s Dominant Growth Model Tirana Times, July 10, 2026 – A booming construction sector has made Albania an outlier in Europe, but behind the cranes

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World Bank: Half of Albanians live in energy poverty

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TIRANA, April 5 – Almost half of Albania’s population lives in energy poverty, recognized as spending more than 10 percent of household income on energy, according to a World Bank report. The

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Albania-Kosovo trade exchanges drop as new barriers emerge

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By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, April 4 – Albania’s trade exchanges with neighbouring Kosovo suffered a setback in 2016 negatively affected by the poor diversification of products traded and ongoing doing business barriers,

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Long-ailing construction sector emerges as key driver of growth

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TIRANA, April 3 – Albania’s economic growth hit a six-year high in 2016 when it grew by an estimated 3.46 percent boosted by the long-ailing construction sector which is back as a

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Boost in FDI, tourism income only slightly narrows current account gap

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TIRANA, April 3 – Albania’s foreign direct investment, tourism income and migrant remittances slightly recovered in 2016, narrowing the gap in the country’s current account as exports struggled to return to positive

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State-run electricity operators post about €100 mln in profits

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TIRANA, March 30 – Grid losses in the country’s state-run electricity sector dropped to a record low of 28 percent in 2016 while all three distribution, transmission and production operators posted profits

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Meat imports from Brazil blocked until tests show it’s safe

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TIRANA, March 30 – Albanian food authorities say they have blocked Brazilian meat imports to the country and have taken samples to test products over their safety after some of the world’s

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Italian call center law: Albanian companies cut first thousand jobs

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TIRANA, March 29 – At least 30 call center companies operating in Albania and employing about 3,000 people have suspended their activity in the country following some late 2016 legal changes in

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Currency outside banks surging ahead of elections

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TIRANA, March 29 – Currency outside banks has undergone a sharp increase in the past couple of years as deposit rates have plunged to historic low levels, giving rise to speculations about

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Commercial banks turn to massive lending abroad as domestic credit struggles to recover

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TIRANA, March 29 – At a time when credit is showing sluggish signs of recovery after a one-year contraction, it is not domestic firms who have increased demand for new loans. The

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Probe launched as two companies dominate 70% of liquid gas market

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TIRANA, March 28 – Albania’s Competition Authority has launched a thorough enquiry into the liquid gas market following allegations of abuse of dominant position in a market operating under oligopoly conditions with

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Albania borrows another $35 mln to complete Arab-funded Tirana-Elbasan highway

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TIRANA, March 27 – Almost four years after its opening to traffic, the Tirana-Elbasan highway is on track to finish as the Albanian government has reached a deal with the Islamic Development

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Business & Economy - Page 118

Albania’s Cash Boom Raises Money Laundering Concerns

Vlora Airport Heads to Arbitration

Concrete, Cocaine and Corruption: Albania’s Fragile Growth Model

World Bank: Half of Albanians live in energy poverty

Albania-Kosovo trade exchanges drop as new barriers emerge

Long-ailing construction sector emerges as key driver of growth

Boost in FDI, tourism income only slightly narrows current account gap

State-run electricity operators post about €100 mln in profits

Meat imports from Brazil blocked until tests show it’s safe

Italian call center law: Albanian companies cut first thousand jobs

Currency outside banks surging ahead of elections

Commercial banks turn to massive lending abroad as domestic credit struggles to recover

Probe launched as two companies dominate 70% of liquid gas market

Albania borrows another $35 mln to complete Arab-funded Tirana-Elbasan highway

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