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Albania’s Cash Boom Raises Money Laundering Concerns

Cash outside Albania’s banking system reached a record 5.6 billion euros, last month. Tirana Times, August 30, 2026 – The amount of cash circulating outside Albania’s banking system has reached a record

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Prime Minister Rama, Former Deputy PM Ministedr Balluku and Mr. Bexhet Pacolli

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Vlora Airport Heads to Arbitration

Albania faces another potentially costly international dispute after losing several arbitration cases in recent years that have exposed the state to hundreds of millions of euros in compensation and related liabilities. Tirana

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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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Private pensions to be obligatory

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TIRANA, July 16- The pension scheme changed completely in 2015. Only minor adjustments affecting specific groups or procedures were made since then, however the Assembly has requested the Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA)

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EC explains why economic growth halved

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TIRANA, July 17- The European Commission has put an emphasis on the slowdown of Albania’s economic growth and consumption during the first quarter of the year in its quarterly periodic review of

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Economy in Brief

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Cost of living in Albania gets more expensive Albania ranks ninth out of 40 countries in Europe for the first six months of 2019, according to the Numbeo data portal. Albania’s living

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Tirana Municipality budget origins and expenditure

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TIRANA, July 15- In the four years from 2015 to 2018, the Municipality of Tirana had about 60 billion lek or 490 million euros funds available from collecting taxes and fees, as

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PM Rama threatens punitive measures on informal economy

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TIRANA, July 15- Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said on Monday that “Those who do not reach the indicators can not be part of this administration, tax or labor inspectorate.” The declaration

7 years ago

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Government increases concessionary payments prior elections

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TIRANA, July 18- The performance of budget spending has further deteriorated during the first six months of the year, as official data from the Ministry of Finance show that spending on investment

7 years ago

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EC says economic aid is insufficient

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TIRANA, July 16- The European Commission, referring to the World Bank, reported that the poverty rate in Albania amounted to 35.2 percent in 2018. The groups reported at higher risk of poverty

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Economic progress along EU criteria

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TIRANA, July 17- The European Commission published its annual “Progress Towards Meeting the Economic Criteria for EU Accession” assessment on July 11, which aims to bring together into a single document the

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Industrial property protection through patents on the rise

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TIRANA, July 11- Patent registration as a form to protect the right of ownership has become more apparent year after year. The official records of the General Directorate of Industrial Property (GDIP)

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Real estate agency business expands while construction booms

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TIRANA, July 10- The construction boom in the capital has been accompanied by an increase in the number of businesses operating as real estate agencies. Their number in 2018 was 847, an

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Cattle livestock is decreasing but agricultural production is growing

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TIRANA, July 11- Although the number of cattle dropped in 2018, in paradox the number of agricultural and cattle by-products increased during the year. According to the data published by the Albanian

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Business & Economy - Page 40

Albania’s Cash Boom Raises Money Laundering Concerns

Vlora Airport Heads to Arbitration

Concrete, Cocaine and Corruption: Albania’s Fragile Growth Model

Private pensions to be obligatory

EC explains why economic growth halved

Economy in Brief

Tirana Municipality budget origins and expenditure

PM Rama threatens punitive measures on informal economy

Government increases concessionary payments prior elections

EC says economic aid is insufficient

Economic progress along EU criteria

Industrial property protection through patents on the rise

Real estate agency business expands while construction booms

Cattle livestock is decreasing but agricultural production is growing

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