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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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Consumers turn pessimistic

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TIRANA, Oct. 19 – The consumer confidence slightly dropped in the third quarter of the year when households became more pessimistic about their income and spending prospects as well as big purchases.

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Energy Community warns of sanctions against Serbia over Kosovo interconnection dispute

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TIRANA, Oct. 18 – The Vienna-based Energy Community Secretariat, an international organization dealing with energy policy, has warned of sanctions against Serbia in case it does not settle its transmission grid dispute

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Cooperatives can boost ailing agriculture sector, study shows

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TIRANA, Oct. 18 – Only a couple of months before the June 2013 general elections, farmers in a village of Lushnje area, some 90 km south of Tirana, decided to boycott the

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Tirana-based joint chamber set to boost sluggish Albania-Serbia trade, investment cooperation

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TIRANA, Oct. 17 – A newly launched Tirana-based joint Albania-Serbia Chamber of Commerce is expected to give a boost to current sluggish trade exchanges and investment between the two countries aspiring to

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Gov’t cancels Skavica HPP tender as Turkish frontrunner surprisingly withdraws

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TIRANA, Oct. 17 – The Albanian government has cancelled a concession tender on the construction and operation of a big hydropower plant in the northern Drin River after no company submitted bids,

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Inflation rate hits 16 year-low for first three quarters

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TIRANA, Oct. 12 – Albania’s inflation rate hit a 16-year low of 1.1 percent in the first three quarters of this year, affected by record low oil and food prices but also

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BoA: NPLs rose to 21.5% in August 2016

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TIRANA, Oct. 12 – Non-performing loans rose for the third month in a row in August 2016 when they climbed to 21.44 percent in an unexpected rising trend at a time when

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Businesses hopeful of presidential veto over new ‘chamber’ tax

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TIRANA, Oct. 12 – More than a dozen foreign and Albanian business associations have come together to oppose as unconstitutional a newly adopted law that makes it compulsory for businesses to register

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Albania uncertain about new IMF role as current deal nears expiry

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TIRANA, Oct. 12 – With five months to go before Albania concludes a three-year deal supported by a €331 million loan with the International Monetary Fund , the Albania government says it

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Wizzair to launch Tirana-Budapest direct fights after five-year break

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TIRANA, Oct. 11 – Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air will reactivate Tirana-Budapest direct flights after a five-year break, Transport Minister Sokol Dervishaj has announced following a meeting with Hungarian Ambassador to Tirana

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Gov’t puts 200,000 metric tons of oil up for sale as price recovers

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TIRANA, Oct. 11 – State-run Albpetrol company has announced a tender to sell some 200,000 metric tons of crude oil currently trading at an almost one-year high of $53 a barrel. The

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Business & Economy - Page 134

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

Consumers turn pessimistic

Energy Community warns of sanctions against Serbia over Kosovo interconnection dispute

Cooperatives can boost ailing agriculture sector, study shows

Tirana-based joint chamber set to boost sluggish Albania-Serbia trade, investment cooperation

Gov’t cancels Skavica HPP tender as Turkish frontrunner surprisingly withdraws

Inflation rate hits 16 year-low for first three quarters

BoA: NPLs rose to 21.5% in August 2016

Businesses hopeful of presidential veto over new ‘chamber’ tax

Albania uncertain about new IMF role as current deal nears expiry

Wizzair to launch Tirana-Budapest direct fights after five-year break

Gov’t puts 200,000 metric tons of oil up for sale as price recovers

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