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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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Eurostat: Albania, one of Europe’s least dependents on fossil fuel imports

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TIRANA, Feb. 20 – The rapid development of the country’s oil industry in the past decade has turned Albania into one of Europe’s top three least dependent countries on imports of fossil

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Junior Canadian companies get mining, oil licences

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TIRANA, Feb. 16 – Two junior Canada-based companies have acquired mining and oil exploration licences in Albania as commodity prices are picking up following the mid-2014 slump. Canada-based Tirex Resources says it

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Albania launches e-inspections

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TIRANA, Feb. 16 – Albania has launched e-inspections into businesses in a bid to increase transparency, reduce corruption and improve the climate of doing business in the country. Chief inspector Shkelqim Hajdari

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Business climate rated as unfavorable by two-thirds of investors

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TIRANA, Feb. 16 – Two-thirds of businesses in Albania consider the business climate unfavorable with courts, corruption and frequent changes in legislation and tax procedures as the top concerns, according to a

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Albania loses ground in global economic freedom index

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TIRANA, Feb. 15 – Albania lost six places to rank 65th among 180 world economies in the 2017 Index of Economic Freedom, maintaining its rating as a moderately free economy, but remaining

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Uncertainties over upcoming June elections pose threats to economy, EU report warns

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TIRANA, Feb. 14 – Increased uncertainties over the upcoming June 2017 elections, a longer than expected credit recovery and the conclusion of a three-year deal with the International Monetary Fund could

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June 18 elections: Opposition Democrats appeal to voters through lower taxes

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TIRANA, Feb. 13 – With only three months to go before the official launch of the electoral campaign for the June 18 general elections, the main opposition Democratic Party and its leader

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State audit uncovers €534 mln in abuses

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TIRANA, Feb. 9 – Abuses by central and local government institutions are estimated to have cost Albanian taxpayers about €534 million in the past four years, the Supreme State Audit has unveiled

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Growth prospects 1.5% lower under pessimistic scenario

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TIRANA, Feb. 9 – Sluggish credit, a poor recovery in the Eurozone economy affecting the country’s exports, remittances and FDI, strong exchange rate fluctuations and the pace of the structural reforms could

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Fruit, vegetable exports boom as more turn to agriculture investment

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TIRANA, Feb. 9 – Albania’s fruit and vegetable production has registered a sharp increase in the past five years, meeting the majority of the country’s needs and increasing exports. Vegetable exports increased

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Economy experts skeptical over billion euro PPP initiative

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TIRANA, Feb. 8 – Economy experts are skeptical over the ruling Socialists’ pre-electoral initiative of injecting 1 billion euros in key sectors through public-private partnerships, warning the project risks creating new arrears

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Business & Economy - Page 122

Albania’s Cash Boom Raises Money Laundering Concerns

Vlora Airport Heads to Arbitration

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

Eurostat: Albania, one of Europe’s least dependents on fossil fuel imports

Junior Canadian companies get mining, oil licences

Albania launches e-inspections

Business climate rated as unfavorable by two-thirds of investors

Albania loses ground in global economic freedom index

Uncertainties over upcoming June elections pose threats to economy, EU report warns

June 18 elections: Opposition Democrats appeal to voters through lower taxes

State audit uncovers €534 mln in abuses

Growth prospects 1.5% lower under pessimistic scenario

Fruit, vegetable exports boom as more turn to agriculture investment

Economy experts skeptical over billion euro PPP initiative

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