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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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Concerns mount over potential spillover effects from gloomy Italian GDP outlook

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TIRANA, Feb. 12 – Concerns over spillover effects that a potential Italian recession could have on the small Albanian economy have been mounting after a sharp cut in 2019 growth outlook and

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Prolonged drought plunges hydro-dependent electricity sector into crisis

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By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Feb. 12 – Albania’s hydro-dependent domestic electricity sector is officially in crisis. An ongoing prolonged drought since mid-2018 has led to domestic electricity generation meeting only 30 percent

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Albania commercial banks earn €148 mln amid slowly recovering credit

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TIRANA, Feb. 11 – Commercial banks operating in Albania continue posting record high profits amid slowly recovering credit and a decline in non-performing loans. Bank of Albania data shows the 14 overwhelmingly

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New airport, Air Albania projects with Turkey stuck in limbo

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By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Feb. 7 – Albania’s ambitious plans to build a new airport south of the country and launch a flag carrier in cooperation with Turkish investors and the Turkish

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Japan supports farmers have easier access to credit

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TIRANA, Feb. 6 – Japan is supporting Albanian farmers to have easier accesses to microcredit in order to get self-employed in the key agriculture sector and even start businesses. The support is

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Albania Investment Corporation initiative triggers gov’t interference concerns

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By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Feb. 6 – The proposed establishment of an Albanian Investment Corporation as a state-run company aimed at facilitating public or private investment in remaining non-privatized assets in a

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Nationwide campaign fails to improve critical water supply situation

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TIRANA, Feb. 5 – A nationwide campaign that the Albanian government launched in 2018 in a bid to reform the critical situation in the country’s state-run tap water sector by cutting illegal

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New Italian recession signals more trouble for Albanian economy

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TIRANA, Feb. 5 – Recession in Italy during the second half of 2018 and growth prospects for the next couple of years having received a severe blow for the Eurozone’s third largest

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Albania fails to get S&P rating upgrade for fifth year in row

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TIRANA, Feb. 4 – U.S.-based Standard & Poor’s has reconfirmed Albania’s ‘B+/B’ long- and short-term sovereign credit ratings with a stable outlook, in a rating that remains unchanged for the fifth consecutive

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Albania’s top four banks under probe over alleged abuse of dominant position

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TIRANA, Feb. 1 – Albania’s competition watchdog says it has launched an in-depth probe into the country’s four largest commercial banks to check whether high interest rates amid sluggish credit and high

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Euro’s free fall, lower consumption lead to new 2018 budget cut

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TIRANA, Jan. 31 – Facing a slowdown in revenue, mainly due to Europe’s single currency trading at a 10-year low against the Albanian lek, the government has been forced to revise down

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Business & Economy - Page 57

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

Concerns mount over potential spillover effects from gloomy Italian GDP outlook

Prolonged drought plunges hydro-dependent electricity sector into crisis

Albania commercial banks earn €148 mln amid slowly recovering credit

New airport, Air Albania projects with Turkey stuck in limbo

Japan supports farmers have easier access to credit

Albania Investment Corporation initiative triggers gov’t interference concerns

Nationwide campaign fails to improve critical water supply situation

New Italian recession signals more trouble for Albanian economy

Albania fails to get S&P rating upgrade for fifth year in row

Albania’s top four banks under probe over alleged abuse of dominant position

Euro’s free fall, lower consumption lead to new 2018 budget cut

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