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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

4 weeks ago

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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

2 months ago

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Albania announces de-euroisation strategy

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TIRANA, March 14 – Albania’s central bank says it is undertaking measures to implement a de-eurisation strategy that would accelerate the reduction of the current high levels of foreign currency in the

9 years ago

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Austrian-Polish-Albanian JV gets 30-year concession to monitor gambling industry

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TIRANA, March 8 – An Austrian-Polish-Albanian joint venture has won the right to set up, operate and maintain an online central monitoring system on Albania’s gambling industry for the next 30 years

9 years ago

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Upward trend in exports of medicinal plants comes to an end

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TIRANA, March 9 – Albania’s exports of medicinal plants, the country’s second largest agricultural exports after canned fish, registered a slight decline in 2016, ending their six-year upward trend that more than

9 years ago

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Public administration wages increase by 10%

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TIRANA, March 8 – More than a hundred thousand public administration employees have had their wages increased by an average of 10 percent starting March 2017, just three months ahead of next

9 years ago

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Consumer prices slow down to 2.2%

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TIRANA, March 8 – Albania’s inflation rate slowed down last February as the country overcame the coldest January in three decades with a negative impact on domestic greenhouse production. Data published by

9 years ago

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New shopping center increases competition in Tirana

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TIRANA, March 8 – A new luxury shopping center has opened in downtown Tirana, increasing competition in a city of about 1 million residents where several malls already successfully operate, mainly in

9 years ago

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EU export quota hold back growth for emerging fish industry

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TIRANA, March 9 – Albania’s emerging fish processing industry has been suffering in the past few years as its rapid growth has led to companies meeting the EU duty free export quotas

10 years ago

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New low-cost flights to link Tirana to Budapest, Amsterdam

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TIRANA, March 7 – Two new direct low-cost flights will connect Tirana to Budapest and Amsterdam in the next couple of months as Albania prepares for its new tourist season peaking in

10 years ago

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Emerging investment funds suffer first contraction

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TIRANA, March 1 – Albania’s emerging investment funds suffered their first contraction in 2016 after rapid growth in their first four years of their operation, apparently affected by a sharp decline in

10 years ago

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Banks’ profits dropped by 40% in 2016

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TIRANA, March 1 – Banks’ profits suffered a sharp decline in 2016 as non-performing loans remained almost unchanged at 18 percent and credit struggled to recover to positive growth rates. Central bank

10 years ago

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IMF: Uncertainties related to the elections put economy at risk

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TIRANA, March 1 – As a 3-year binding deal with the International Monetary Fund came to an end this month and prospects of a renewed agreement were delayed after next June’s general

10 years ago

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Business & Economy - Page 120

Albania’s Cash Boom Raises Money Laundering Concerns

Vlora Airport Heads to Arbitration

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

Albania announces de-euroisation strategy

Austrian-Polish-Albanian JV gets 30-year concession to monitor gambling industry

Upward trend in exports of medicinal plants comes to an end

Public administration wages increase by 10%

Consumer prices slow down to 2.2%

New shopping center increases competition in Tirana

EU export quota hold back growth for emerging fish industry

New low-cost flights to link Tirana to Budapest, Amsterdam

Emerging investment funds suffer first contraction

Banks’ profits dropped by 40% in 2016

IMF: Uncertainties related to the elections put economy at risk

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