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Prof. Dr. Alaa Garad is President and Founding Partner of the Stirling Centre for Strategic Learning and Innovation, University of Stirling Innovation Park, Scotland. He is actively engaged in health tourism, higher education and organisational learning across the Western Balkans, including the Global Health Tourism Leadership Programme in Albania.

Building a Trusted Health Tourism Ecosystem: Albania’s Next Competitive Advantage

by Professor Alaa Garad Tirana Times, March 17, 2026 – There are countries you visit, and there are countries you remember. Albania is rapidly becoming the latter. I began writing this article

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Behind Albania’s Collapsing Roads: Clientelism and Corruption

Tirana Times, February 12 2026 – The rapid deterioration of newly inaugurated roads and tunnels across Albania has exposed far more than technical shortcomings. What authorities have sought to explain as weather-related

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The Kurum Case and the Collapse of Environmental Oversight in Albania

Tirana Times, 08 February 2026 – The Kurum waste file has exposed one of the most serious environmental and governance scandals in Albania in recent years, revealing not only the illegal export

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Exports show signs of recovery

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TIRANA, Feb. 23 – Albania’s exports showed signs of recovery in January 2017 fuelled by a strong recovery in oil and mining production as international commodity prices gradually pick up. Data published

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Contract negotiations with Shell, Delek Group stall

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TIRANA, Feb. 23 – The slump in oil prices and their slow recovery is delaying contract negotiations with the Royal Dutch Shell and a subsidiary of Israeli-based Delek Group, over two oil

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€660 mln set to be pardoned under pre-electoral tax amnesty

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By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Feb 22 – As the country prepares for next June’s general elections and the opposition Democrats have launched an indefinite protest over free and fair elections, the ruling

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Companies improve finances as access to tap water drops

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TIRANA, Feb. 22 – The coverage of population with water supply and the average duration of tap water slightly deteriorated in 2016 when only about 79 percent of the population had access

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Albania mulls minimum wage hike after three-year freeze

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TIRANA, Feb. 21 – Albania is mulling a hike in the minimum wage, currently the region’s lowest at €157, amid debates by unionists demanding a high increase after a three-year freeze and

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Banja hydropower plant, part of the Devoll HPP being built by Norway's Statkraft

Rainfall, new HPPs increase domestic electricity generation

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TIRANA, Feb. 20 – The favourable hydro-situation and the launch of several new private and concession hydropower plants, including the Banja HPP by Norway’s Statkraft in late 2016, gave a boost to

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Eurostat: Albania, one of Europe’s least dependents on fossil fuel imports

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TIRANA, Feb. 20 – The rapid development of the country’s oil industry in the past decade has turned Albania into one of Europe’s top three least dependent countries on imports of fossil

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Junior Canadian companies get mining, oil licences

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TIRANA, Feb. 16 – Two junior Canada-based companies have acquired mining and oil exploration licences in Albania as commodity prices are picking up following the mid-2014 slump. Canada-based Tirex Resources says it

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Albania launches e-inspections

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TIRANA, Feb. 16 – Albania has launched e-inspections into businesses in a bid to increase transparency, reduce corruption and improve the climate of doing business in the country. Chief inspector Shkelqim Hajdari

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Business climate rated as unfavorable by two-thirds of investors

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TIRANA, Feb. 16 – Two-thirds of businesses in Albania consider the business climate unfavorable with courts, corruption and frequent changes in legislation and tax procedures as the top concerns, according to a

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Albania loses ground in global economic freedom index

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TIRANA, Feb. 15 – Albania lost six places to rank 65th among 180 world economies in the 2017 Index of Economic Freedom, maintaining its rating as a moderately free economy, but remaining

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Business & Economy - Page 121

Building a Trusted Health Tourism Ecosystem: Albania’s Next Competitive Advantage

Behind Albania’s Collapsing Roads: Clientelism and Corruption

The Kurum Case and the Collapse of Environmental Oversight in Albania

Exports show signs of recovery

Contract negotiations with Shell, Delek Group stall

€660 mln set to be pardoned under pre-electoral tax amnesty

Companies improve finances as access to tap water drops

Albania mulls minimum wage hike after three-year freeze

Rainfall, new HPPs increase domestic electricity generation

Eurostat: Albania, one of Europe’s least dependents on fossil fuel imports

Junior Canadian companies get mining, oil licences

Albania launches e-inspections

Business climate rated as unfavorable by two-thirds of investors

Albania loses ground in global economic freedom index

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