Genta Hodo

Kosovo's trade deficit rose to 578.3 million euro ($658.7 million) in May, from 498.3 million euro in the same month of 2025, the statistical office, ASK, said on Thursday.

North Macedonia's gross electricity production totalled 462,653 MWh in May, higher than 445,883 MWh recorded in the same month of last year, the statistical office said on Friday.

Foreign tourists to Albania in the first six months of 2026 increased to 5 million, from 4.8 million in the same period of the previous year, the statistical office, INSTAT, said on Friday.

Albania's competition authority said on Monday that it has requested from the country's two mobile operators, Vodafone Albania and One Albania, to cut their prices for pensioners and students, following an in-depth investigation into the retail mobile services market.

The parliament of Albania said it ratified an agreement envisaging $302 million (265.5 million) in loans from the United States to finance acquisition of defence equipment and systems to modernise the country's armed forces, though opposition parties boycotted voting over fast-track procedures.

North Macedonia's industrial producer prices rose 6.2% on the year in June, the country's statistical office said on Tuesday.

Albania's finance ministry projects 4% growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2026, after a 3.66% increase last year, economy minister Petrit Malaj said on Tuesday.

North Macedonia's finance ministry sold 3.17 billion denars ($58.6 million/51.6 million euro) worth of one-year Treasury bills at an auction held on Tuesday, below target, finance ministry data showed.

A sharp depreciation of the euro against the Albanian lek over the past five years, from above 120 leks in mid-2021 to below 95 leks per euro last week, is squeezing Albanian exporters of goods and services, industry representatives and financial experts say.

North Macedonia's government said on Tuesday it has made available 793.5 million denars ($14.7 million/12.9 million euro) in low-interest financing to support the purchase of rice paddy and Vranec wine grapes ahead of the main procurement season.