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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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Gov’t initiates arbitration proceedings over Bankers Petroleum tax dispute

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TIRANA, Oct. 26 – In an expected move after Canada-based Bankers Petroleum, the country’s biggest oil producer, recently concluded its sale deal with a Chinese consortium, the Albanian government has decided to

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Sole bidders win tenders worth €13.7 mln with municipalities

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TIRANA, Oct. 26 – Public tenders with a sole bidder continue getting a considerable number of contracts and huge amount of money from Albania’s local government units even more than a year

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Total tax rate at 36.5% of profit, one of the region’s highest

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TIRANA, Oct. 26 – Albania’s total tax rate as percentage of commercial profit remained unchanged at 36.5 percent in 2016, being one of the highest among EU aspirant Western Balkans countries, according

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Pre-electoral wage hike could put public finances back in trouble

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By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Oct. 25 – With the general elections drawing closer every day, the ruling Socialist Party-led Albanian government has announced plans for a considerable wage and pension increase, a

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Albania improves business climate, but yet lags behind regional competitors

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TIRANA, Oct. 26 – Albania climbed 32 steps to rank 58th among 190 global economies in the latest Doing Business report to score its best ever ranking, but yet lagged behind some

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Main industries operating at 70 to 80% capacity, survey shows

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TIRANA, Oct. 19 – Business confidence registered a considerable recovery in the third quarter of the year, but the capacity utilization rate in the key industries remains far below its potential and

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PowerChina interested in Albania infrastructure projects

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TIRANA, Oct. 20 – One of China’s biggest construction companies, the Power Construction Corporation of China, is considering road and agriculture infrastructure investments in Albania as part of China’s increased presence in

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A hundred state-owned properties go online for rent

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TIRANA, Oct. 19 – Some 100 state-owned and private properties have been made available for rent online on the website of the Albanian Investment Development Agency, a government agency whose mission is

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Consumers turn pessimistic

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TIRANA, Oct. 19 – The consumer confidence slightly dropped in the third quarter of the year when households became more pessimistic about their income and spending prospects as well as big purchases.

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Energy Community warns of sanctions against Serbia over Kosovo interconnection dispute

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TIRANA, Oct. 18 – The Vienna-based Energy Community Secretariat, an international organization dealing with energy policy, has warned of sanctions against Serbia in case it does not settle its transmission grid dispute

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Cooperatives can boost ailing agriculture sector, study shows

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TIRANA, Oct. 18 – Only a couple of months before the June 2013 general elections, farmers in a village of Lushnje area, some 90 km south of Tirana, decided to boycott the

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Business & Economy - Page 133

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

Gov’t initiates arbitration proceedings over Bankers Petroleum tax dispute

Sole bidders win tenders worth €13.7 mln with municipalities

Total tax rate at 36.5% of profit, one of the region’s highest

Pre-electoral wage hike could put public finances back in trouble

Albania improves business climate, but yet lags behind regional competitors

Main industries operating at 70 to 80% capacity, survey shows

PowerChina interested in Albania infrastructure projects

A hundred state-owned properties go online for rent

Consumers turn pessimistic

Energy Community warns of sanctions against Serbia over Kosovo interconnection dispute

Cooperatives can boost ailing agriculture sector, study shows

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