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The Chief Executive Officer of OTP Bank Albania, Mr. Bledar Shella, described this investment as a reflection of the bank’s vision to build long-term and sustainable relationships with its clients.

OTP Bank Albania inaugurates new Private Banking premises in Tirana

Tirana Times, May 18, 2026 – OTP Bank Albania has inaugurated new premises dedicated to the Private Banking segment, unveiling an exclusive space designed for clients seeking personalized service and advanced financial

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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.

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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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Immigrants increase supply, drive foreign currency rate down

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TIRANA, Dec.25- The holiday season has drawn tens of thousands of immigrants back home, supplying the Albanian currency market with great quantities of foreign currency, mainly euros. Hence the prices of foreign

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Reallocation of funds decreases deficit

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TIRANA. Dec.23- The administration has reallocated $100 million in a move to decrease the national debt. Finance Minister Bode commented that this as an important action that seeks to increase investment. During

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Government will no longer finance KESH

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TIRANA, Dec.22- “KESH has already used its 5 billion lek loan through the end of this year, thus exhausting its financing opportunity for 2008 from the government, which will no longer give

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Private education to be subjected to VAT

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TIRANA, Dec. 24- Private schools, private universities and other private education entities will now be subject to a Value Added Tax (VAT). The decision was taken in the Economy Commission of the

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Foreign investment shrinks from start of year predictions

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TIRANA, Dec.24- There is a discrepancy of 50 percent between the foreign investment net predicted in the budget at the start of 2007 and the actual figure calculated at year’s end. In

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HERA to build wind mills

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TIRANA, Dec.21- For the first time in Albania, a company has been issued a license to build wind mills that will produce energy using wind power, which is considered the safest environmental

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Bulgarian Company Kaolin Buys Albanian MID

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SOFIA, Dec. 22 – The Bulgarian mineral extracting and processing company, Kaolin, has bought all the shares of Albanian peer company M.I.D. AL for an undisclosed sum. “The investment in Albania is

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IMF’s Gerwin Bell: the contract for the Durres-Kukes road is not regular

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TIRANA, Dec.24- Gerwin Bell of the International Monetary Fund, in an interview with the Voice of America, described some of the main problems that the administration should address at the end of

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IMF wants clarity for Albania’s management of the power crisis

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TIRANA, Dec. 24 – Gerwin Bell of the International Monetary Fund in Albania said that 2007’s negative effects were characterized by less power supply and less agricultural production. But Bell also said

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Socio-economic forum launches important privatization publication

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Major strategic privatizations besides being the headline of economic news this year have certainly attracted the interest of academia and scholars and the lectures of many foreign experts. A collection of lectures

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Albania, Austria sign deal on abolishing double taxation

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TIRANA, Dec. 15 – Albania and Austria signed an agreement last week to avoid double taxation on income and capital and also on preventing individuals and businesses from avoiding paying taxes. The

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Business & Economy - Page 656

OTP Bank Albania inaugurates new Private Banking premises in Tirana

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

Behind Albania’s Collapsing Roads: Clientelism and Corruption

Immigrants increase supply, drive foreign currency rate down

Reallocation of funds decreases deficit

Government will no longer finance KESH

Private education to be subjected to VAT

Foreign investment shrinks from start of year predictions

HERA to build wind mills

Bulgarian Company Kaolin Buys Albanian MID

IMF’s Gerwin Bell: the contract for the Durres-Kukes road is not regular

IMF wants clarity for Albania’s management of the power crisis

Socio-economic forum launches important privatization publication

Albania, Austria sign deal on abolishing double taxation

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