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TIRANA, Oct. 30 – The cost of about a dozen public private partnerships the Albanian government has signed with private companies in the key health, waste-to-energy and customs sectors is expected to increase by a third in 2018 and is set to register sharp hikes in the next few years as the Albania proceeds with an ambitious but rather controversial €1 billion PPP project. In its 2018 budget report, the Albanian government expects taxpayer support to eight existing PPP contracts and three new concessions that become effective in 2018 to increase to 9.4 billion lek (€69.2 mln), up from about…
