Albania applies a liberal foreign investment regime with the goal of increasing foreign direct investment. The Law “On Foreign Investment” allows a 100% ownership for foreign companies and outlines specific protections for foreign investors. Albania is committed to developing a stable and predictable business climate by continuing the implementation of overarching reforms, fiscal consolidation aimed at reducing the national debt, improvement of regional cooperation, investments into infrastructure, and reform of the educational system. The Albanian government has also moved ahead with an ambitious economic and structural reform agenda which will contribute to a more attractive business environment: restoring growth, improving competitiveness and creating new jobs. The new “Strategic Investment Law” provides maximum legal guarantees for foreign investors.

• Albania has the most competitive wage rates in the region and a highly productive workforce. .
• Competitive income tax, overtimes and social security.
• Vocational training for specific sectors.

• 48 % of population is under 35 years old
• 139,043 students are enrolled at Albanian universities in the academic year 2018-2019.
• English, Italian and Greek are all widely spoken while French and German are taught at school

• Competitive tax rates
• Incentives for strategic investments, large-scale investments and regional investments
• Albania 1 Euro – scheme
• Other sectorial incentives

• Albania has a strategic location in the western Balkans, at the crossroads of Europe’s major transit corridors, giving access to the world’s biggest trade;
• Connection to European markets through various ports in the Adriatic and Ionian Sea;
• Albania is a bridge between northern and southern Europe with a growing network of transport links such as ports, roads and airports.

• Albania has signed several free trade agreements (FTA) with key markets (European Union, Turkey, CEFTA, EFTA countries), offering customs free access to a large consumers market.
• Albania is part of the General System of Preferences, which is an asymmetric preference system, according to which some states like: Australia, Belarus, Canada, Iceland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Norway, Switzerland, New Zealand, USA and the Russian Federation grant preference to originating goods exported from developing countries, but not vice versa.
• Countries where Albanian preferential origin goods can be exported under preferential tariff treatment according to GSP are: Australia, Belarus, Japan, Kazakhstan, New Zealand, USA and the Russian Federation.