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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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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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Oil, mineral exports expected to recover as commodity prices surge

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TIRANA, Jan. 26 – A surge in commodity prices is expected to have a positive impact on Albania’s poorly diversified exports for 2017 after an almost zero growth in 2016 and a

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Two oilfields taken back under state control

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TIRANA, Jan. 26 – State-run Albpetrol oil company says it will take over two oil fields from the TransAtlantic Albania concessionaire which owes the Albanian government $20 million. The state-run operator says

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World Bank unveils Albania’s quake, flood-risk regions

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TIRANA, Jan. 26 – Albania’s population and economy are exposed to both earthquakes and floods, with earthquakes posing the greater risk of a high impact, lower probability event, a World Bank report

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New local tax triggers hike in Tirana apartment prices

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TIRANA, Jan. 26 – Apartment prices in Tirana are expected to undergo a hike ranging from Euro 50 to 120 this year due to higher taxes the municipality of Tirana has imposed

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Informality affects more than a third of workers in Albania, study finds

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TIRANA, Jan. 24 – High unemployment rates, especially among youngsters, is the key reason behind alarming levels of the shadow economy in Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia, a study by Tirana-based Institute for

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Gov’t cancels controversial refrigerated vehicles concession ahead of elections

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TIRANA, Jan. 23 – The Albanian government has withdrawn from a monopoly contract on the compulsory technical control of refrigerated vehicles following concerns by business operators over increased costs leading to a

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Banks expect lending standards to further tighten in early 2017

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TIRANA, Jan. 19 – Banks tightened lending standards for businesses in the final quarter of 2016 and do not expect to considerably ease them in the first three months of this year,

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Experts unveil economic risks associated with upcoming June elections

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TIRANA, Jan. 19 – Economy experts says the Albanian economy faces increased challenges for 2017 when the upcoming general elections will be a chance to either continue the tradition of putting at

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Albania, Kosovo to establish joint Durres customs point

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TIRANA, Jan. 19 – Albania and Kosovo are working to set up a joint customs point at Durres Port to further ease trade exchanges between the two countries after the upward trend

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Business & Economy - Page 124

Albania’s Cash Boom Raises Money Laundering Concerns

Vlora Airport Heads to Arbitration

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

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

Insurance market slowed down in 2016

Oil, mineral exports expected to recover as commodity prices surge

Two oilfields taken back under state control

World Bank unveils Albania’s quake, flood-risk regions

New local tax triggers hike in Tirana apartment prices

Informality affects more than a third of workers in Albania, study finds

Gov’t cancels controversial refrigerated vehicles concession ahead of elections

Banks expect lending standards to further tighten in early 2017

Experts unveil economic risks associated with upcoming June elections

Albania, Kosovo to establish joint Durres customs point

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