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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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UK invests 10 million pounds on the future’s jobs in Balkans

Business & Economy·Social Issues·Special

TIRANA, March 13- In the framework of the 30th birthday of the internet, the British Council has designed a three years education program to launch five Balkan countries. The program titled 21st

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EU agency in collaboration with Albania over drug monitoring

Business & Economy·Special

TIRANA, March 14- The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) and Albania signed a Working Arrangement in Vienna on March 13, which will allow more active collaboration in monitoring

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Following the money: where is the construction boom being financed from?

Business & Economy

TIRANA, March 11- Tirana is already experiencing a construction boom, and is expected to suffer more construction sites this 2019. For 2018 are given 388 permissions with a construction area of 940

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Eurostat releases 2018 asylum seekers data

Business & Economy·Social Issues

TIRANA, March 14- Following relevancy from last issue’s story on Albania’s comprising the second biggest group of emigrants to receive a EU passport in 2017, the European Institute of Statistics, Eurostat, released

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Eurostat claims a third of Albanians live only for food

Business & Economy·Social Issues

TIRANA, March 12- Data from the European Institute of Statistics, Eurostat, claim that citizens of Albania and Kosovo are the ones in Europe to spend more on food comparing to what their

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Raiffeisen Bank International also caught up in money laundering allegations

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By Sonja Methoxha TIRANA, March 12- The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) have made available a number of media reports alleging that several major European banks have been drawn into

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Norwegian company to build floating solar panels in Banje

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TIRANA, March 13- Statkraft Albania has signed a contract with Norwegian company Ocean Sun AS for cultivating solar panels with a maximal capacity of 2 MW at the hydropower tank of Banje

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Inflation lowers to 1.7%

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TIRANA, Mar. 11- As the European currency euro remains unstable following another dropping against Albanian lek this week (as of March 11), together with lowered consuming from the citizens have added to

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Education is the least financed sector

Business & Economy·Social Issues

TIRANA, Mar. 7- March 7th in Albania is the Teacher’s Day, an event on which students express their gratitude to their teachers about their hard work to educating them. This day corresponds

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Albanian economy, the budget revenue drop by 2,5 percent

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TIRANA, Mar. 5- 2019 has started as a difficult year for the Albanian finances. Official data from the Finance Ministry show that as of January the budget revenue dropped by 2,5 percent

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EUR currency drops again

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TIRANA, Mar. 5- Europe’s market currency euro has dropped again after a rise it had received in the past two weeks. Throughout the month of February euro gained 2 points against Albania’s

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Business & Economy - Page 54

Albania’s Cash Boom Raises Money Laundering Concerns

Vlora Airport Heads to Arbitration

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

EU agency in collaboration with Albania over drug monitoring

Following the money: where is the construction boom being financed from?

Raiffeisen Bank International also caught up in money laundering allegations

Norwegian company to build floating solar panels in Banje

Inflation lowers to 1.7%

Albanian economy, the budget revenue drop by 2,5 percent

EUR currency drops again

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