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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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Underperforming revenue, stronger national currency trigger mid-year budget cut

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TIRANA, July 27 – Underperforming revenue in the first half of this year has forced the Albanian government to undertake a mid-year budget cut in what has become a common practice to

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Albanian lek stabilizes against Europe’s single currency

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TIRANA, July 26 – Albania’s national currency has finally stabilized against Europe’s single currency in the past one and a half months following unprecedented strengthening trend that risked posing a key threat

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Albania remains one of Europe’s hardest-hit by modern slavery, report shows

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TIRANA, July 26 – Albania is one of the top five Europe and Central Asia countries when it comes to people trapped in modern slavery affecting its population. The findings are unveiled

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Opposition worried over Albania’s failure to make it to U.S. investment climate report

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TIRANA, July 25 – Albania’s main opposition Democratic Party has blamed what it calls a hostile business climate for the country’s failure to make it in the annual investment climate statements published

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Albania’s biggest miner expands operations in Kosovo

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TIRANA, July 25 – One of Albania’s largest companies, the Balfin Group, has expanding its mining operations in neighboring Kosovo where it has acquired a ferro-nickel producer that has been facing financial

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EU critical of Albania’s overoptimistic growth agenda

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TIRANA, July 23 – The European Commission has described the Albanian government’s 2018-2020 economic growth and public debt targets as overoptimistic at a time when Albania continues to face several obstacles to

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Alleged airport concessionaire’s abusive charges under probe

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TIRANA, July 23 – The Albanian government is looking for a consultant to carry out a review of the concession contract it has with the Tirana International Airport, the country’s sole airport

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Credit to private sector recovers when corrected for exchange rate, NPL effects

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TIRANA, July 19 – Credit to Albania’s private sector was officially below zero in the first five months of this year, but Albania’s central bank says lending grew by an annual of

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Insurers lobby to make private pension insurance compulsory

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TIRANA, July 19 – Albanian insurers are lobbying to channel a portion of the mandatory social security contributions to the country’s nascent private pension funds under a new system already applied in

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Albania plans to diversify electricity generation with floating solar power plants

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TIRANA, July 19 – Albania’s state-run power utility KESH says it is planning to build the country’s first floating solar power plant on the northern Drin River cascade where it generates about

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More Albania restaurants adopt farm-to-table approach as agritourism gains upper hand

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TIRANA, July 17 – When Altin Prenga decided to leave Italy after a decade as a migrant there and start a small family-run restaurant in his native village of Fishte, northern Albania,

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Business & Economy - Page 75

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

Underperforming revenue, stronger national currency trigger mid-year budget cut

Albanian lek stabilizes against Europe’s single currency

Albania remains one of Europe’s hardest-hit by modern slavery, report shows

Opposition worried over Albania’s failure to make it to U.S. investment climate report

Albania’s biggest miner expands operations in Kosovo

EU critical of Albania’s overoptimistic growth agenda

Alleged airport concessionaire’s abusive charges under probe

Credit to private sector recovers when corrected for exchange rate, NPL effects

Insurers lobby to make private pension insurance compulsory

Albania plans to diversify electricity generation with floating solar power plants

More Albania restaurants adopt farm-to-table approach as agritourism gains upper hand

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A Courageous Tug o’ War for American Investment

Ryanair unveils expansion plans and new routes from Tirana International Airport

EU agriculture funds for Albania suspended indefinitely following misuse investigation, ministry tells parliament

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