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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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Proposed hike in dental service fees causes stir

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TIRANA, Jan. 30 – A proposed hike in dental service fees has caused a nationwide stir in the past few days with authorities initiating legal action and suspending new minimum fees proposed

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Insurance market growth slows down to 4.5%

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TIRANA, Jan. 30 – Albania’s insurance market registered modest growth rates for the second year in a row in 2018 when the dominant non-life sector heavily reliant on compulsory motor insurance gained

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IMF warns of PPP, arrears risks to Albania’s mid-term growth outlook

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TIRANA, Jan. 29 – The International Monetary Fund has reiterated its warning over the growing use of public private partnerships and the accumulation of new unpaid government bills to the private sector

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Transport operators handle less freight, more passengers

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TIRANA, Jan. 29 – Maritime, air and rail operators in Albania faced mixed results in 2018 when freight transport declined and the handling of passengers only significantly increased for the country’s sole

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Protests force authorities to back off from HPP, oil search plans at protected areas

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TIRANA, Jan. 28 – Protests by local residents and environmentalists over the construction of a small hydropower plant next to a protected Canyon and oil search plans at a national park have

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Albania remains ‘moderately free’ as it climbs 13 steps in economic freedom

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TIRANA, Jan. 28 – Albania climbed 13 steps to rank one of the Western Balkans’ best performing countries in economic freedom, but remained ‘moderately free,’ according to the 2019 index of economic

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Newly-imposed ban drastically cuts gambling in Albania

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By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Jan. 28 – Legal changes have turned Albania from a gambling paradise to one of the countries applying one of Europe’s harshest legislation on games of chance, but

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Shell drops oil search plans at Albania protected area after protests

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TIRANA, Jan. 24 – The Albanian government and Shell oil giant have withdrawn from oil search plans at a protected area in the southern Albanian region of Gjirokastra following protests by local

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Albania wins over Kosovo-Serbia trade war

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TIRANA, Jan. 24 – Albania is winning over the Kosovo-Serbia trade war, having sharply increased exports to neighboring Kosovo, a natural ethnic Albanian-dominated trading partner, where gains in market share could be

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Albania to tighten anti-money laundering legislation after critical Moneyval report

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TIRANA, Jan. 24 – Albanian authorities have drafted legal changes to tighten measures and penalties in countering money laundering and terrorism financing following a critical report by a Council of Europe monitoring

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UN: Italy slowdown, Brexit-fuelled cut in EU funding to affect Albania’s growth

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TIRANA, Jan. 23 – A slowdown in the economic performance of Italy and Greece, Albania’s main trading partners, and lower EU accession funding following an eventual departure of the UK from the

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Business & Economy - Page 58

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

Proposed hike in dental service fees causes stir

Insurance market growth slows down to 4.5%

IMF warns of PPP, arrears risks to Albania’s mid-term growth outlook

Transport operators handle less freight, more passengers

Protests force authorities to back off from HPP, oil search plans at protected areas

Albania remains ‘moderately free’ as it climbs 13 steps in economic freedom

Newly-imposed ban drastically cuts gambling in Albania

Shell drops oil search plans at Albania protected area after protests

Albania wins over Kosovo-Serbia trade war

Albania to tighten anti-money laundering legislation after critical Moneyval report

UN: Italy slowdown, Brexit-fuelled cut in EU funding to affect Albania’s growth

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