Albania hopes to open European Union accession talks following Juncker visit

Jean-Claude Juncker and Albanian prime minister Edi Rama in Brussels last December. Juncker has suggested Albania could join the EU by 2025

Jean-Claude Juncker and Albanian prime minister Edi Rama in Brussels last December. Juncker has suggested Albania could join the EU by 2025

He explained his words by saying that "2025 is the date open to all candidate countries".

He told a new conference: "And to the extent that a candidate country by then or earlier would have met all the criteria for membership, we will proceed in such a way that its efforts will be recognised by the European Union". But Tirana has to resolve all major border disputes with its neighbors, preferably before the EC finalizes the assessment of the progress of the Western Balkan countries. Talking on the developments in the Western Balkan region, President Meta encouraged the European Union to remove visas for Kosovo citizens, expressing his belief that the Agreement on demarcation between Kosovo and Montenegro will be concluded soon. They are negotiating several chapters of the many they need to address before joining, although they have completed work on just a few.

At the same time, Albania and Macedonia are expected to receive a green light for the start of negotiations this June.

"Serbia has already covered an impressive part of the [EU-accession] path", Juncker said on February 26, before adding that a number of problems "still have to be solved".

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In the case of the countries of the Western Balkans additional conditions apply for membership, the European Commission's website states, mostly relating to regional cooperation and good "neighbourly relations".

He highlighted judicial reforms that will overturn the entire current system, in particular a law to reevaluate the approximately 800 magistrates undergoing a process to check their professional training and assets.

"The justice reform is enshrined in the Albanian constitution: honestly, we have crossed the river", a European official who declined to be identified said.

President Meta said the visit of the EC President Juncker and Commissioner Hahn is encouraging and very important for Albania.

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