At the end of 2025, Albania entered uncharted territory for its modern history: 27,514 foreign nationals with valid residence permits, an absolute record representing an increase of 22% (+4,800 people) in just one year and a doubling compared to 2020. Applications...
In 2026, legal auditing in Albania continues to remain one of the weakest links in the architecture of financial governance and the fight against corruption, not only in our country but also in most of the Western Balkans. Although the...
The analysis of the behavior of the exchange rate in Albania during the period 2015–2025 shows that the relationship between the lek and macroeconomic factors is neither uniform in time nor symmetrical in intensity. The exchange rate does not react...
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...
