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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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Heavily reliant on agriculture and mining, the norther region of Dibra which has a resident population of 137,000 has been ranked as the country's poorest in terms of GDP per capita

Northern Albanian regions lag behind in income level

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TIRANA, Aug. 9 – Albania’s mostly agriculture reliant northern regions are the country’s poorest with the GDP per capita at almost half of more industrialized Tirana and Fier regions and only a

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Tobacco collection company under probe for abuse of dominant position

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TIRANA, Aug. 9 – Albania’s Competition Authority has launched an inquiry into a monopoly tobacco collection and exporting company following complaints by local farmers over cheap prices they are offered. A preliminary

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Central bank expects justice reform to trigger economic recovery, NPL reduction

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TIRANA, Aug. 3 – Central bank governor Gent Sejko has hailed the approval of the long-awaited justice reform as a positive signal for the Albanian economy and the recovery of sluggish credit.

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Credit shows signs of recovery

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TIRANA, Aug. 2 – Lending to the economy showed signs of recovery last June when it almost overcame its downward trend for the past l2 months as credit registered a negligible annual

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Businesses face tougher lending standards

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TIRANA, July 19 – Businesses faced tighter lending standards in the second quarter of the year despite the key interest rate dropping to a new historic low of 1.25 percent and confidence

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Albanians take to risky investments, first $1 mln invested in online trading platforms

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TIRANA, July 18 – Albanians invested about $1 million in online trading in international stock exchanges in 2015 when several unlicensed operators emerged, triggering concern by the country’s highest financial authorities. An

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British company bids to invest $5 bln in new port facility that could become Albania’s largest

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TIRANA, July 18 – A UK-based company is planning to invest a staggering $5 billion on the construction of a new port, a regasification terminal and a thermal power plant in a

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Gov’t proposes pre-electoral tax amnesty

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TIRANA, July 18 – The ruling Socialist Party-led government has proposed a tax amnesty on businesses and property reassessment under modest rates, in two pre-electoral initiatives targeting to give a boost to

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INSTAT: Economy grew by 3% in year’s first quarter

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TIRANA, July 15 – The Albanian economy grew by an annual 3 percent in the first quarter of this year fueled by a tough late-2015 nationwide campaign against informality formalizing thousands of

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Serbia-Kosovo dispute holds new interconnection line hostage

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TIRANA, July 13 – A Serbia-Kosovo legal dispute over the transmission grid is holding back the operation of a newly built Albania-Kosovo interconnection line and Albania plans to set up a joint

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Albania's Constitutional Court in a recent session. (Photo: Archives)

Constitutional court cancels higher taxes on self-employed professionals

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TIRANA, July 14 – Albania’s Constitutional Court has turned down as incompatible some late 2015 legal changes that set reference wages on self-employed professionals increasing social security contributions by three times. The

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Business & Economy - Page 139

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

Northern Albanian regions lag behind in income level

Tobacco collection company under probe for abuse of dominant position

Central bank expects justice reform to trigger economic recovery, NPL reduction

Credit shows signs of recovery

Businesses face tougher lending standards

Albanians take to risky investments, first $1 mln invested in online trading platforms

British company bids to invest $5 bln in new port facility that could become Albania’s largest

Gov’t proposes pre-electoral tax amnesty

INSTAT: Economy grew by 3% in year’s first quarter

Serbia-Kosovo dispute holds new interconnection line hostage

Constitutional court cancels higher taxes on self-employed professionals

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