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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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Unfair public administration dismissals cost Albanians €62 mln in past three years

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TIRANA, Dec. 7 – Unfair dismissals of public administration employees have cost Albanian taxpayers a staggering 8 billion lek ($62.5 million, €58 million) in the past three years, Open Data research center

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Gov’t starts contract negotiations on first toll road

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TIRANA, Dec. 8 – The Albanian government says it has started contract negotiations with a United Arab Emirates-Albanian consortium over a 30-year concession to upgrade and manage a 114-km highway linking Albania

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Albania accumulates €105 mln in new unpaid bills

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TIRANA, Dec. 7 – Central and local government arrears have re-emerged as a risk to the country’s public finances after some €500 million was cleared in 2015 in payments to private sector

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New tobacco plant opens after more than a decade

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TIRANA, Nov. 30 – More than a decade after the closure of the last tobacco manufacturing plant in the country, an Albanian-owned company has opened a new plant in the northern region

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Gov’t fails to meet revenue target by €29 mln

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TIRANA, Dec. 1 – Government revenues failed to meet the target by 4 billion lek (€29 million) in the first ten months of this year as the key VAT and excise taxes

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Identifying potential markets and buyers emerges as exporters’ top concern

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TIRANA, Nov. 30 – Identifying potential markets and buyers is the most problematic factor for Albanian exporters who have been hit by a sharp cut in international commodity prices affecting the country’s

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Junior coalition partner against excise rate on vehicle LNG

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TIRANA, Dec. 1 – The Socialist Movement for Integration, the junior ally of the ruling Socialist Party, has officially opposed plans to impose an excise rate on vehicle liquefied natural gas, saying

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Albania-Kosovo trade exchanges continue to remain lower than with Serbia

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TIRANA, Nov. 30 – Behind political rhetoric of excellent economic cooperation with Kosovo, trade exchanges between the two countries are almost the same compared to Albania’s trade volume with Serbia and only

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Credit returns to positive growth rates

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TIRANA, Dec.1 – Credit officially returned to positive growth rates in the third quarter of the year, overcoming a one-year period of contraction also affected by the write-off of non-performing loans from

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Paying Taxes 2017: Albania continues to lag behind regional competitors

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TIRANA, Nov. 30 – Albania slightly improved its ranking in paying taxes but continued underperforming even among regional competitors with a higher tax burden, according to the Paying Taxes 2017 report published

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Ruling MPs request 2-year freeze on new gambling law ahead of mid-2017 general elections

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TIRANA, Nov. 29 – With only a month to go before a law disciplining gambling in downtown areas become effective and few months before the mid-2017 general elections, several ruling majority MPs

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Business & Economy - Page 128

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

Unfair public administration dismissals cost Albanians €62 mln in past three years

Gov’t starts contract negotiations on first toll road

Albania accumulates €105 mln in new unpaid bills

New tobacco plant opens after more than a decade

Gov’t fails to meet revenue target by €29 mln

Identifying potential markets and buyers emerges as exporters’ top concern

Junior coalition partner against excise rate on vehicle LNG

Albania-Kosovo trade exchanges continue to remain lower than with Serbia

Credit returns to positive growth rates

Paying Taxes 2017: Albania continues to lag behind regional competitors

Ruling MPs request 2-year freeze on new gambling law ahead of mid-2017 general elections

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