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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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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

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Tahseen Sayed, the outgoing World Bank country manager for Albania

World Banks provides $70 mln to improve business climate

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TIRANA, Feb. 2 – The World Bank has awarded a $70 million soft loan to further enhance Albania’s competitiveness and improve the business climate. The policy reform supports reforms aimed at enhancing

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Hotline launched for business tax enquiries

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TIRANA, Feb. 2 – Albania’s general tax administration has made available a hotline to assist businesses with tax related enquiries. Starting Feb. 1, businesses can phone 0800 00 02 to get information

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Key rate to remain at historic low until late 2017, cbank says

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TIRANA, Feb. 2 – Albania’s central bank says it will continue keeping the key rate at its historic low of 1.25 percent at least until late 2017, governor Gent Sejko has said.

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New campaign targets fighting tax evasion among artists

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TIRANA, Jan. 30 – Spared by a tough nationwide campaign against informality a couple of years ago, the Socialist Party-led government has now turned to artists and the creative industry to discipline

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Pre-electoral amnesty to pardon millions of euros in debts

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TIRANA, Jan. 25 – A new pre-electoral amnesty the ruling Socialist Party is about to approve ahead of next June’s general elections will benefit both businesses and households who will have their

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Relations with IMF back to advisory as 3-year binding deal ends

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TIRANA, Jan. 24 – Albania has concluded a three-year deal with the International Monetary Fund supported by a Euro 331 million loan, reducing the Fund’s role on the country’s economic and fiscal

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Insurance market slowed down in 2016

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TIRANA, Jan. 26 – Albania’s insurance market slowed down in 2016 following a double-digit growth rate in 2015, but paid claims in the compulsory motor insurance-dominated market rose by an annual 17.5

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Oil, mineral exports expected to recover as commodity prices surge

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TIRANA, Jan. 26 – A surge in commodity prices is expected to have a positive impact on Albania’s poorly diversified exports for 2017 after an almost zero growth in 2016 and a

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Two oilfields taken back under state control

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TIRANA, Jan. 26 – State-run Albpetrol oil company says it will take over two oil fields from the TransAtlantic Albania concessionaire which owes the Albanian government $20 million. The state-run operator says

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World Bank unveils Albania’s quake, flood-risk regions

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TIRANA, Jan. 26 – Albania’s population and economy are exposed to both earthquakes and floods, with earthquakes posing the greater risk of a high impact, lower probability event, a World Bank report

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Business & Economy - Page 123

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

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

World Banks provides $70 mln to improve business climate

Hotline launched for business tax enquiries

Key rate to remain at historic low until late 2017, cbank says

New campaign targets fighting tax evasion among artists

Pre-electoral amnesty to pardon millions of euros in debts

Relations with IMF back to advisory as 3-year binding deal ends

Insurance market slowed down in 2016

Oil, mineral exports expected to recover as commodity prices surge

Two oilfields taken back under state control

World Bank unveils Albania’s quake, flood-risk regions

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