Relationship dossier
Albania
Canada
Relationship assessment
Albania and Canada maintain cooperative ties, including an investment protection agreement and NATO security cooperation.
Albania toward Canada
+30Albania negotiated and concluded a bilateral foreign investment protection agreement with Canada, establishing a concrete framework for investment relations.
Canada toward Albania
+30Canada negotiated and concluded a bilateral foreign investment protection agreement with Albania, establishing a concrete framework for investment relations.
Overall relationship
+30The relationship includes a durable bilateral investment-protection framework and cooperation within NATO. These features support a cooperative assessment, while the known bilateral arrangements do not establish an exceptionally broad or intensive partnership.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Albania and Canada have a cooperative relationship, including a bilateral foreign investment protection agreement. Both are NATO members, providing a framework for security cooperation, though the breadth of their direct bilateral activity is less clear.
Key developments
Albania and Canada concluded a foreign investment protection agreement.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and implementation of bilateral investment protections are unclear.
- The scale of direct security and development cooperation is unclear.