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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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IMF critical of new tax exemptions as it lends another €72mln

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TIRANA, Feb. 18 – The International Monetary Fund has approved two new loan tranches worth €72.4 million, bringing total disbursement to about €227 million, but warned the Albanian government to avoid granting

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OSHEE distribution operator turns profitable

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TIRANA, Feb. 15 – More than a year after the launch of an aggressive nationwide campaign to curb electricity thefts and collect accumulated unpaid bills, the country’s state-run power distribution operator is

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Albania resumes electricity exports following heavy rainfall

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TIRANA, 16 – Heavy rainfall in the first two months of this year has considerably improved hydro-dependent domestic electricity generation, allowing state-run power utility, KESH, to resume electricity exports after a critical

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First turf-fired power plant planned in former swamp

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TIRANA, Feb. 17 – The Albanian government has drafted a law that targets changing some 288 hectares of the agricultural land in the former Maliq swamp in southeastern Albania into a mining

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Local elections negatively affected water companies’ performance, watchdog says

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TIRANA, Feb. 16 – The 2015 local elections had a negative impact on the performance of the country’s water supply and sewerage companies managed by local government units, an annual report submitted

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Oil concessionaires evade €82 mln in taxes, audit finds

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TIRANA, Feb. 17 – The Supreme State Audit says it has uncovered 11.5 billion lek (€82 million) in damage to the state budget in alleged tax evasion by oil concessionaires in the

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Junior Canadian company on track to sign oil exploration contract

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TIRANA, Feb. 17 – A junior Canada-based oil company says it is on track to finalize a contract to explore an oil block in southern Albania in its first overseas expansion after

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TAP, Italy’s recovery to have positive effects on Albania’s economy, EBRD says

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TIRANA, Feb. 17 – London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is optimistic the Albanian economy will get a significant boost in 2016 from the Trans Adriatic Pipeline and a recovery in

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Investment funds slow down

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TIRANA, Feb. 16 – After rapid growth in their first three years of operation, the emerging investment funds slowed down in 2015 as declining yields in government securities curbed investments. Data published

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Medicinal plant exports increase to €29 mln

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TIRANA, Feb. 16 – Albania’s exports of medicinal plants continued growing in 2015 with positive effects for thousands of households relying on this sector. Data published by the country’s state statistical institute,

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Albania ends costly customs assistance contract with Crown Agents

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TIRANA, Feb. 11 – The Albanian government has officially announced the termination of its two-year €8.5 million customs assistance contract with UK-based Crown Agents, saying that will no longer continue cooperation with

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Business & Economy - Page 159

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

IMF critical of new tax exemptions as it lends another €72mln

OSHEE distribution operator turns profitable

Albania resumes electricity exports following heavy rainfall

First turf-fired power plant planned in former swamp

Local elections negatively affected water companies’ performance, watchdog says

Oil concessionaires evade €82 mln in taxes, audit finds

Junior Canadian company on track to sign oil exploration contract

TAP, Italy’s recovery to have positive effects on Albania’s economy, EBRD says

Investment funds slow down

Medicinal plant exports increase to €29 mln

Albania ends costly customs assistance contract with Crown Agents

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