Albania aims to become a full-fledged member of the European Union by the end of the decade, its Prime Minister Edi Rama said on Tuesday, following the opening of accession negotiations he called “historic”.
Its either gonna be them or Montenegro that’ll be the newest EU member. All others are seriously lagging behind on key aspects.
Beautiful-Health-976 on
Albania played phenomenal politics and in order to get EU accession. There is much to learn for other countries:
First they fully seize the geopolitical momentum after the Ukraine war, as did many others as well. Additionally, they perfectly recognized that they need to decouple from Macedonia, because the front runner Montenegro would be completely isolated and no land connection to EU territory. So they did a masterclass in marketing and decoupled from Macedonia in order to couple to Montenegro and rebrand them as Mediterranean Countries rather than Western Balkans. Albania also learned to court other important institutions in the Western World. Especially it made friends with international agencies like the IMF and other important people, took the reforms and ideas seriously and made great friends which could make a case in Brussels for quicker accession. It also persuaded Italy with a Ruanda scheme. For a publicity stunt Italy now is in Albanias debt, which will materialize in the negotiations. Albania is also smart enough to not get its history in its way. That is something that makes it stand out of the WB6 together with Montenegro.
PckMan on
I hope they make it and that it can be a good thing for them. I know Albania doesn’t have the best rep but people often don’t realise the shit they’ve been through, just how recently they got out of one of the worst dictatorships in Europe, how much progress they’ve made since then and how hard working they are.
Peskybee619 on
Bring in Kosovo too. Might as well bring in both majority Albanian speaking countries together.
Woeffie1980 on
Yeah let’s add more ‘corrupt to the core’ countries. That will really benefit us.
AerobicThrone on
So all the migrants that melony is sending there will be in schengen space and be able to roam back to italy? Very clever melony
halodon on
Their prime-minister just praised Orbán a few days ago, and said that todays Hungary is a nice example for Albania to follow…
So be careful or the EU is gonna get another Orbán soon enough.
Leading_Stick_5918 on
Please don’t… Albania is such an empoverished country which would drain EU more than it would contribute. The only reason for EU to accept Albania is out of fear of external powers to exploit the country.
dobik on
I can guarantee that no country will join until the Veto Law in EU will not be reformed. We see what Hungary could do. Plus Albania is most of the secular muslim countries, but still pretty conservative if you look at the EU standards. I don’t see a world where everyone will agree for them to join so soon.
eurocomments247 on
That’s a great aspiration, but once more: no new members until voting reforms.
Faust29A on
Ahhahahahaahhahaha 🤣 thats a good one.
jhwheuer on
So let’s drain some more countries of their working age population
Envinyatar20 on
Good they’re in Europe anyway. Help with labour shortages in the west
Badmumbajumba on
You go Albania
turkish__cowboy on
turkey will join the eu by 2034. note this down. in order: albania-montenegro-turkey-ukraine-bosnia and herzegovina-moldova. armenia and georgia would be next.
WatchmanOfLordaeron on
The Albanian mafia never needed a visa to “travel” to the West
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From the above article:
Albania aims to become a full-fledged member of the European Union by the end of the decade, its Prime Minister Edi Rama said on Tuesday, following the opening of accession negotiations he called “historic”.
“It is our aim to complete that process within this decade and be ready to knock at the door of the European Council as a member state,” Rama told reporters in Luxembourg, where an [**intergovernmental conference (IGC) was held**](https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/10/15/albania-kicks-off-eu-membership-talks-despite-political-turmoil-at-home) with the Balkan nation.
Its either gonna be them or Montenegro that’ll be the newest EU member. All others are seriously lagging behind on key aspects.
Albania played phenomenal politics and in order to get EU accession. There is much to learn for other countries:
First they fully seize the geopolitical momentum after the Ukraine war, as did many others as well. Additionally, they perfectly recognized that they need to decouple from Macedonia, because the front runner Montenegro would be completely isolated and no land connection to EU territory. So they did a masterclass in marketing and decoupled from Macedonia in order to couple to Montenegro and rebrand them as Mediterranean Countries rather than Western Balkans. Albania also learned to court other important institutions in the Western World. Especially it made friends with international agencies like the IMF and other important people, took the reforms and ideas seriously and made great friends which could make a case in Brussels for quicker accession. It also persuaded Italy with a Ruanda scheme. For a publicity stunt Italy now is in Albanias debt, which will materialize in the negotiations. Albania is also smart enough to not get its history in its way. That is something that makes it stand out of the WB6 together with Montenegro.
I hope they make it and that it can be a good thing for them. I know Albania doesn’t have the best rep but people often don’t realise the shit they’ve been through, just how recently they got out of one of the worst dictatorships in Europe, how much progress they’ve made since then and how hard working they are.
Bring in Kosovo too. Might as well bring in both majority Albanian speaking countries together.
Yeah let’s add more ‘corrupt to the core’ countries. That will really benefit us.
So all the migrants that melony is sending there will be in schengen space and be able to roam back to italy? Very clever melony
Their prime-minister just praised Orbán a few days ago, and said that todays Hungary is a nice example for Albania to follow…
So be careful or the EU is gonna get another Orbán soon enough.
Please don’t… Albania is such an empoverished country which would drain EU more than it would contribute. The only reason for EU to accept Albania is out of fear of external powers to exploit the country.
I can guarantee that no country will join until the Veto Law in EU will not be reformed. We see what Hungary could do. Plus Albania is most of the secular muslim countries, but still pretty conservative if you look at the EU standards. I don’t see a world where everyone will agree for them to join so soon.
That’s a great aspiration, but once more: no new members until voting reforms.
Ahhahahahaahhahaha 🤣 thats a good one.
So let’s drain some more countries of their working age population
Good they’re in Europe anyway. Help with labour shortages in the west
You go Albania
turkey will join the eu by 2034. note this down. in order: albania-montenegro-turkey-ukraine-bosnia and herzegovina-moldova. armenia and georgia would be next.
The Albanian mafia never needed a visa to “travel” to the West