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Businesses lured with ambitious €1 bln PPP projects ahead of elections

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By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Feb. 1 – With only four months to go ahead of next June’s general elections, the ruling Socialist Party-led government has unveiled an ambitious project that is supposed to inject 1 billion euros in the country’s ailing economy through public-private partnerships in key road, education and health sectors despite dozens of shady concession contracts already in force halving increased costs and not improved public services for both households and businesses. Speaking this week at a meeting with investors and bankers, Prime Minister Edi Rama who is seeking a second consecutive mandate with his Socialist Party, said…

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