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New ‘shady’ PPPs to cost taxpayers €52 mln for 2017

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The Ministry of Health said it blamed the opposition of launching a negative propaganda against the free check up program which led to a “small number of citizens that have used the services regardless of the capacity of 475,000 tests each year which is supported financially by the Public Private Partnership.” (Photo: PDP/Pixabay)
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TIRANA, Nov. 24 – Financial support to six concession contracts the Albanian government has signed in key sectors over the past three years and two new public-private partnerships expected to be made operational next year will cost Albanian taxpayers an estimated 7.2 billion lek (€52 million) for 2017, the finance ministry has unveiled. Public-private partnerships have become a hot topic in Albanian politics after some risky concessions and warnings by international financial institutions that some 55 public-private partnerships the Albanian governments have signed during the past decade, have created commitments with a present value of about 7 percent of the…

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