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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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Austria Leads FDI, but Real Estate Tells the Bigger Story

Bank of Albania data show Austria topping first-quarter foreign investment flows, while property and construction continue to shape Albania’s FDI model. Tirana Times June 25, 2026 – The figures place Austria ahead

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Albania’s Missing Generation: A Country Losing Its Future Before 2050

Tirana Times, June 22, 2026 – Albania is no longer facing a normal demographic decline. It is facing the possible disappearance of the very generation on which its economic, social and political

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Durres Port handles more passengers

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TIRANA, Feb 7 – Albania’s largest port handled about 840,000 passengers to and from Italy in 2016 registering an 8 percent increase compared to 2015, the Durres Port Authority says. Companies operating

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New excise rate affects all consumers as liquid gas prices increase by 40%

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TIRANA, Feb. 7 – Liquid gas prices have increased by an average of 40 percent in the past month, reflecting an excise tax meant only for propane-powered vehicles but which is also

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S&P rates upcoming elections, IMF departure as risks to Albanian economy

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TIRANA, Feb. 7 – Standard and Poor’s has once again affirmed Albania’s stable outlook, but slightly revised downward the country’s GDP growth forecast for the next four years due to risks stemming

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Businesses lured with ambitious €1 bln PPP projects ahead of elections

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By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Feb. 1 – With only four months to go ahead of next June’s general elections, the ruling Socialist Party-led government has unveiled an ambitious project that is supposed

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Tahseen Sayed, the outgoing World Bank country manager for Albania

World Banks provides $70 mln to improve business climate

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TIRANA, Feb. 2 – The World Bank has awarded a $70 million soft loan to further enhance Albania’s competitiveness and improve the business climate. The policy reform supports reforms aimed at enhancing

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Hotline launched for business tax enquiries

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TIRANA, Feb. 2 – Albania’s general tax administration has made available a hotline to assist businesses with tax related enquiries. Starting Feb. 1, businesses can phone 0800 00 02 to get information

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Key rate to remain at historic low until late 2017, cbank says

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TIRANA, Feb. 2 – Albania’s central bank says it will continue keeping the key rate at its historic low of 1.25 percent at least until late 2017, governor Gent Sejko has said.

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New campaign targets fighting tax evasion among artists

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TIRANA, Jan. 30 – Spared by a tough nationwide campaign against informality a couple of years ago, the Socialist Party-led government has now turned to artists and the creative industry to discipline

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Pre-electoral amnesty to pardon millions of euros in debts

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TIRANA, Jan. 25 – A new pre-electoral amnesty the ruling Socialist Party is about to approve ahead of next June’s general elections will benefit both businesses and households who will have their

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Relations with IMF back to advisory as 3-year binding deal ends

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TIRANA, Jan. 24 – Albania has concluded a three-year deal with the International Monetary Fund supported by a Euro 331 million loan, reducing the Fund’s role on the country’s economic and fiscal

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Insurance market slowed down in 2016

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TIRANA, Jan. 26 – Albania’s insurance market slowed down in 2016 following a double-digit growth rate in 2015, but paid claims in the compulsory motor insurance-dominated market rose by an annual 17.5

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Business & Economy - Page 123

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

Austria Leads FDI, but Real Estate Tells the Bigger Story

Albania’s Missing Generation: A Country Losing Its Future Before 2050

Durres Port handles more passengers

New excise rate affects all consumers as liquid gas prices increase by 40%

S&P rates upcoming elections, IMF departure as risks to Albanian economy

Businesses lured with ambitious €1 bln PPP projects ahead of elections

World Banks provides $70 mln to improve business climate

Hotline launched for business tax enquiries

Key rate to remain at historic low until late 2017, cbank says

New campaign targets fighting tax evasion among artists

Pre-electoral amnesty to pardon millions of euros in debts

Relations with IMF back to advisory as 3-year binding deal ends

Insurance market slowed down in 2016

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