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  • TAP starts construction of access roads, bridges in Albania

    ALBANIA, 2015/07/09 The Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG has today announced the start of construction and rehabilitation work on access roads and bridges along the pipeline’s route in Albania. The occasion was marked by an inauguration ceremony near the town of Çorovoda, attended by the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, Minister of Energy and Industry Damian Gjiknuri, and TAP Managing Director Ian Bradshaw. Speaking to an audience that included foreign diplomats, members of the Albanian parliament, representatives of local authorities and other key stakeholders, Prime Minister Rama and Minister Gjiknuri emphasised the importance of the project to Albania.

  • Graft and Grey Economy Hindering Balkan Business, EBRD

    ALBANIA, 2015/05/04 The EBRD's business environment in the transition region survey, BEEPS, interviewed some 15,000 business leaders in 24 nations during 2013 shows that in Albania, electricity shortages, unfair competition from the informal sector and corruption are seen as the major obstacles to business. About 40 % of the firms surveyed reported having to compete against firms in the informal sector. Corruption, particularly over construction permits is an extra major concern in Albania, the survey said. “Although relatively few firms applied for construction-related permits, almost one-third of the firms that did said that an informal gift or payment was expected or requested during the application process,” EBRD noted in the statement.

  • Bulgaria Wants Albania’s Bitumen Reserves

    ALBANIA, 2012/12/07 “There are a lot of roads in Bulgaria, which have been built a lot of years ago [with Albanian bitumen] and are good a lot of years after,” Borisov said during a press conference with his Albanian counterpart in Tirana.  “We are ready to take amount the quantities of bitumen at disposal in your country,” he added
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