In recent years, Albania has been experiencing a demographic drama that is profoundly transforming the country’s rural landscape, turning the abandonment of villages not simply into a statistic, but into a painful story of loss and insecurity. Imagine mountainous villages...
The Western Balkans has always been a region closely linked to the fate of Europe and global developments. After decades of efforts to overcome the legacy of conflicts and to integrate into European structures, the engine of economic convergence that has...
The Albanian economy is currently in a phase that at first glance can be interpreted as growth, development, and modernization. Macroeconomic indicators report an expansion of Gross Domestic Product, an increase in investments, a boom in the construction sector, and...
At the beginning of 2026, the euro has fallen to historically low levels against the lek (96.5–96.7 lek), producing a contradictory situation for the Albanian economy, where on the one hand macroeconomic stability and low inflation are presented at the...
In every functional economy, the state is not measured by how many people it employs, but by how much real value it creates for society with the resources it consumes. In Albania, the public administration has become one of the largest...
The data on real growth and sectoral contribution for the period 2022–2028, according to the Economic Reform Program (ERP) 2026–2028 (in Albanian), show that the Albanian economy, after maintaining a relatively stable growth rate of around 4% per year,...
The economic model “Albania 2.0” is not a set of technical reforms nor one development strategy among many alternatives. It represents a paradigm shift in how development itself is understood: from growth as an end in itself to sustainability as...
At the beginning of 2026, Albania enters a critical phase of economic development, where the growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is projected to reach around 3.6% according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a growth driven mainly by tourism,...
Foreign trade data for the period 2022–2025 do not show an economy in crisis, but rather an economy confronting the limits of its development model. This is a very important distinction.According to our in depth study, the year...
At the end of 2025, the media reported a story that shocked public opinion in Albania. A Spanish citizen, Álvaro Romillo Castillo, known as “CryptoSpain,” was arrested in Spain for a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme that defrauded thousands of people and caused...
