Jared Kushner Wants To Turn A Wild Stretch of Albania Into A Luxury Resort
August 17th, 2024
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an article on Jared Kushner’s planned Albanian development, funded with Saudi and other Middle Eastern investment: In one of his several trips to Albania over the past few years, Jared Kushner went hiking along a stretch of Mediterranean coastline with pristine sand dunes and cliff-lined beaches. The place, he said […]
Read more »Economy in Focus: Albania
May 7th, 2024
Via Emerging Europe, an article on Albania: Challenges there may be, but Albania’s economy is broadly in a good place. A boom in tourism is driving growth at levels above most of its regional peers. While tourism across most of the world has broadly recovered from the massive impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, in a […]
Read more »Sunny Albania Turns to Solar Power To Fuel Development
October 10th, 2023
Via Energy Daily, a report on Albania’s solar power ambitions: Along southwestern Albania’s coastline, the sun shines bright — warming the 234,828 new solar panels at the Karavasta power station that will be connected to the country’s energy grid in the coming weeks.In less than two years, the French-owned Voltalia company has built the largest […]
Read more »Economy In Focus: Albania
May 18th, 2023
Via Emerging Europe, a look at Albania’s economy: Albania’s economy enjoyed solid growth in 2022 and the lowest inflation in all of CESEE. With booming construction and tourism sectors, 2023 is set to be another year of progress. Albania has emerged from one of the rockier economic liberalisations in emerging Europe. Enver Hoxha led one […]
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