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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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Constitutional Court cancels 50-fold hike in gas station licence fees

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TIRANA, Nov. 10 – The country’s constitutional court has given another blow to a controversial government decision in late 2015 that increased license fees on fuel and gas stations by a staggering

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Vienna Institute: Growth to be up to 0.6% lower compared to gov’t projections

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TIRANA, Nov. 10 – The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies has slightly revised upward Albania’s economic growth expectations for the next three years on stronger domestic demand, in forecasts which are

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New fiscal package defies business calls for cut in key taxes

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TIRANA, Nov. 8 – Key taxes such as the corporate income tax and the withholding tax on dividends, rents and capital gains will remain unchanged at 15 percent even for 2017, defying

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Budget heading for new cut as public finances continue to underperform

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TIRANA, Nov. 2 – Three months after a mid-year budget cut, the country’s underperforming public finances are heading for a new cut as government revenue continues to fail meeting targets. A leaked

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Trade gap widens as exports drop, imports grow

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TIRANA, Nov. 2 – Albania’s trade gap continued widening in the first three quarters of this year as exports preserved their downward trend affected by a slump in commodity prices while imports

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Yields embark on upward trend

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TIRANA, Nov. 2 – Yields on government securities have embarked on rising trend in the past few months after hitting a historic low last June just before the country’s central bank cut

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IMF warns Albania over new arrears, revising property tax

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TIRANA, Nov. 3 – While Albania’s three-year conditional deal with the International Monetary Fund is coming to an end, the Fund has warned the Albanian government to be careful with the accumulation

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Public debt drops to 70% of GDP

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TIRANA, Nov. 2 – Albania’s public debt slightly dropped to below 70 percent of the GDP in the third quarter of the year while debt servicing also slightly fell as interest rates

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EBRD: TAP to be Albania’s key driver of growth in next couple of years

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TIRANA, Nov. 3 – London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development says the Trans Adriatic Pipeline bringing Caspian gas to Europe will be Albania’s key driver of growth for the next couple

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Gov’t defies environmental concerns as Vjosa river HPP given final okay

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TIRANA, Nov. 1 – The Albanian government has concluded contract negotiations with a Turkish consortium over a 35-year concession to build and operate a big hydropower plant, defying calls by environmentalists and

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The Netherlands emerges as second largest investor in Albania

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By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Nov. 1 – The Netherlands has emerged as the second largest foreign direct investor in Albania and is on track to further increase its presence in the Balkan

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Business & Economy - Page 132

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

Constitutional Court cancels 50-fold hike in gas station licence fees

Vienna Institute: Growth to be up to 0.6% lower compared to gov’t projections

New fiscal package defies business calls for cut in key taxes

Budget heading for new cut as public finances continue to underperform

Trade gap widens as exports drop, imports grow

Yields embark on upward trend

IMF warns Albania over new arrears, revising property tax

Public debt drops to 70% of GDP

EBRD: TAP to be Albania’s key driver of growth in next couple of years

Gov’t defies environmental concerns as Vjosa river HPP given final okay

The Netherlands emerges as second largest investor in Albania

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