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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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Smartphone apps replacing traditional call, SMS services

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TIRANA, June 8 – Smartphone internet applications are gaining ground against traditional mobile phone calls and text messages. A report by the country’s electronic communications watchdog shows airtime dropped by an annual

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Bankers Petroleum resumes export operations

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TIRANA, June 9 – Canada-based Bankers Petroleum says it has resumed its usual production and export operations after a six-day halt at the Petrolifera terminal port facility in Vlora, southern Albania, following

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Some 20,000 farmers formalize

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TIRANA, June 8 – The nationwide campaign against informality is estimated to have formalized some 19,500 farmers in 2015 when a reform in late 2015 obliged farmers to obtain tax ID numbers

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Probe launched into several monopoly products, services

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TIRANA, June 9 – Albania’s Competition Authority has launched probes on the monopoly aviation fuel and insulin supply and issued recommendations on the car technical control service. The watchdog says it has

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Online banking gains ground

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TIRANA, June 7 – The rapid growth of the internet market and use of smartphones has almost trebled Albania’s emerging online banking in the past four years, according to a report by

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Inflation rate slightly accelerates to 0.7%

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TIRANA, June 8 – Consumer prices slightly accelerated last May but continued to remain below the central bank’s 3 percent target. Data published by the country’s state statistical institute, INSTAT, show the

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Half of tourism graduates fail to find jobs

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TIRANA, June 8 – More than half of graduates in the tourism industry in Albania have not been able to integrate into the labor market, according to a survey conducted by USAID

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Albania, Kosovo struggle to turn deals into concrete results

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TIRANA, June 6 – Two and a half years after the first joint meeting between the Albanian and Kosovo governments, trade exchanges between the two neighboring countries have only modestly recovered as

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IMF worried about repressive practices over businesses

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TIRANA, May 31 – “The private sector is not in good mood. While budget figures are optimistic, businesses report quite a different picture. They say the tax administration is suppressing them and

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Lending remains sluggish despite record low loan rates

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TIRANA, May 31 – The sharp cut in loan interest rates has had little impact on boosting credit to the economy which continues remaining at negative growth rates, hinting sluggish demand and

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Eurostat: Albania’s power prices higher than France’s in purchasing power standards

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TIRANA, May 30 – Albania’s household electricity prices have become among Europe’s lowest following their unification in 2015, but when adjusted for purchasing power they remain among the region’s highest and are

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Business & Economy - Page 144

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

Smartphone apps replacing traditional call, SMS services

Bankers Petroleum resumes export operations

Some 20,000 farmers formalize

Probe launched into several monopoly products, services

Online banking gains ground

Inflation rate slightly accelerates to 0.7%

Half of tourism graduates fail to find jobs

Albania, Kosovo struggle to turn deals into concrete results

IMF worried about repressive practices over businesses

Lending remains sluggish despite record low loan rates

Eurostat: Albania’s power prices higher than France’s in purchasing power standards

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