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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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World Economic Forum: Albania poorly prepared for future emerging technology production

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TIRANA, Jan. 12 – Albania is one of Europe’s least prepared countries in its readiness for the future production through the adoption of emerging technology, a report by Switzerland-based World Economic Forum

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Cigarette prices undergo higher than expected hike

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TIRANA, Jan. 11 – Cigarette prices underwent a rather unjustified hike in the first days of this year when a higher excise duty became effective. Prices on 20-cigarette packs have increased by

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Chestnuts, Tropoja’s bread tree at risk following decades of neglect

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TIRANA, Jan. 11 – The Tropoja chestnuts, found in massive plantations in northeastern Albania, are rapidly penetrating EU markets as the best that Albania produces, with Italy on top of list, but

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INSTAT: Inflation rate hit 5-year high of 2% in 2017

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TIRANA, Jan. 10 – Albania’s inflation rate hit a five-year high of 2 percent in 2017, but continued remaining below the central bank’s 3 percent target estimated to have a positive impact

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Agriculture, tourism fails to appeal to foreign investors

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TIRANA, Jan. 10 – Key sectors of the Albanian economy such as tourism and agriculture continue to remain unattractive to foreign investors in Albania who have mainly focused on energy-related projects in

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Unprepared for regional economic area, Albanian producers call for tax incentives, subsidies

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TIRANA, Jan. 9 – Albanian producers say the EU-backed Regional Economic Area initiative that the six Western Balkan leaders agreed to last July at the Trieste Summit will put ‘Made in Albania’

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Credit fails to recover amid poor business, consumer confidence

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TIRANA, Jan. 9 – Credit to businesses and households failed to return to positive growth rates in the first 11 months of 2017 amid poor confidence and tight lending standards fuelled by

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First Albania Hilton hotel set to replace surprise Sheraton Tirana departure

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TIRANA, Jan. 8 – As a package of tax incentives aimed at attracting luxury tourism investment has just become effective, Sheraton Tirana, the country’s most internationally renowned brand, has left the country,

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Prolonged drought slows down Albanian economy

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TIRANA, Jan. 8 – Albania’s economy slowed down to 3.55 percent in the third quarter of the year when the country faced one of its worst droughts in decades with a negative

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Oil refiner’s tax debts mount to €135 mln after a decade of failure in private hands

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TIRANA, Jan. 7 – The suspension of work at Albania’s largest oil refiner, a routine process in the past decade since its failed 2008 privatization has left hundreds of oil workers jobless

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2017 Business & Economy in review

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2017 Business & Economy in review January Relations with IMF back to advisory Albania concluded a three-year deal with the International Monetary Fund supported by a Euro 331 million loan, reducing the

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Business & Economy - Page 95

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

World Economic Forum: Albania poorly prepared for future emerging technology production

Cigarette prices undergo higher than expected hike

Chestnuts, Tropoja’s bread tree at risk following decades of neglect

INSTAT: Inflation rate hit 5-year high of 2% in 2017

Agriculture, tourism fails to appeal to foreign investors

Unprepared for regional economic area, Albanian producers call for tax incentives, subsidies

Credit fails to recover amid poor business, consumer confidence

First Albania Hilton hotel set to replace surprise Sheraton Tirana departure

Prolonged drought slows down Albanian economy

Oil refiner’s tax debts mount to €135 mln after a decade of failure in private hands

2017 Business & Economy in review

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