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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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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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Construction permits hit 6-year high in Q3 2017

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TIRANA, Dec. 28 – The number of construction permits hit a six year-high in the third quarter of 2017, when local government units issued some 310 permits worth more than Euro 100

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HPPs in protected Albania areas causing irreparable damage, Bankwatch says

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TIRANA, Dec. 28 – The boom in hydropower plant construction in the past decade has put significant pressure on the environment in Albania and international financial institutions are also to blame for

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Oil workers march to Tirana to demand unpaid wages, resumption of work

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TIRANA, Dec. 28 – Hundreds of oil workers at the Ballsh oil refiner marched for about 140 km to Tirana this week to protest unpaid wages and demand the resumption of work

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Albania not immune to bitcoin bubble, experts warn

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TIRANA, Dec. 26 – As the bitcoin bubble continues amid warnings of a crash in 2018, hundreds of Albanians are estimated to have invested in the world’s primary cryptocurrency whose value soared

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Albania to pay more in debt rates as yields embark on upward trend

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TIRANA, Dec. 26 – Yields on government securities have embarked on upward trend in the past few months and are expected to continue their gradual rise even in 2018 as the government

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Year-end holidays strengthen lek against Euro

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TIRANA, Dec. 26 – Albania’s national currency has gained ground against Europe’s single currency in the past few days, in a common year-end trend that sees the euro slightly depreciate against the

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2018 prospects: What to expect from the Albanian economy

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By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Dec. 26 – The Albanian economy is heading to 2018 amid a mixed picture of recovering but still below potential economic growth, mainly relying on some major-energy related

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Wizz Air to launch direct Tirana-London low cost flights

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TIRANA, Dec. 21 – Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air has announced the launch of direct Tirana-London flights starting spring 2018, the Tirana International Airport says. The new route will link Tirana to

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Legal changes pave way for Albania-Kosovo power exchange launch

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TIRANA, Dec. 21 – Albania has concluded legal changes paving the way for a Tirana-based joint Albania-Kosovo power exchange that will help the two neighboring countries integrate their complementary electricity markets and

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Business & Economy - Page 96

Albania’s Cash Boom Raises Money Laundering Concerns

Vlora Airport Heads to Arbitration

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

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

2017 Business & Economy in review

Construction permits hit 6-year high in Q3 2017

HPPs in protected Albania areas causing irreparable damage, Bankwatch says

Oil workers march to Tirana to demand unpaid wages, resumption of work

Albania not immune to bitcoin bubble, experts warn

Albania to pay more in debt rates as yields embark on upward trend

Year-end holidays strengthen lek against Euro

2018 prospects: What to expect from the Albanian economy

Wizz Air to launch direct Tirana-London low cost flights

Legal changes pave way for Albania-Kosovo power exchange launch

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