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The EU and corruption in Albania as a major problem as the judiciary is attacking Prime Minister Edi Rama.
The President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen is traveling to the country of the Western Balkans. The first stop was Tirana, where she met with Prime Minister Edi Rama. Further stops in North Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo and at the end of Montenegro. Don't worry about me Rama, from Leyen you don't want to know about Albania's EU membership. Given this breadth of reform, it is "reasonable not to have a certain one".
On the other hand, Rama did not want to back down from the goal of joining the EU by 2030. And because his country still has "many mountains to climb towards membership", Rama assured that the summit could be beaten "to the bottom of the decade."
While von der Leyen and Rama speak in Tirana, EU and Albanian diplomats opened the first chapter of membership negotiations at a reception conference in Luxembourg.
The best candidate for the new year 2014 is for sale, Tirana for more information and more information. During their time in Luxemburg, diplomats will discuss the "foundations" of membership: how the country can make progress in respecting human rights, in consolidating the rule of law and democratic institutions and, in institutions, in the fight against corruption.
One day before von der Leyen, by order of the Albanian Anti-Corruption Authority (SPAK), former minister, head of the center and presidents Ilir Meta was arrested on charges of bribery, money laundering and concealment of wealth. Meta's ex-wife, Monika Kryemadhi, was placed under house arrest by SPAK for similar charges.
Kryemadhi head of her body as head of the left-liberal Freedom Party during Meta's term as president from 2017 to 2022. en nor the fight against the opposites.
Investigations with political undertones
Since the beginning of the year, the former head of the meeting and the chairman of the Democratic Party (PD) Sali Berisha is in the house arrested by order of the SPAK for accusations of corruption. After Meta's arrest, Berisha said a word to the press at his home that the persecution of Ilir Meta is politically motivated also because of SPAK against him.
Berisha was the first freely elected president of Albania after the end of the community. He has effectively been the DP in action since 1990 and was also a leader in the parliament until the removal of his immunity as a deputy in December 2023. Socialiste (SP), which is led by Edi Rama since 2005 , the Successor Organization of the former Communist Workers' Party.
Meta founded his own party, the Freedom Party, in 2004 after a dispute with the SP.
In the years that followed, the Freedom Party, the third largest and strongest political party in Albania, entered into a coalition with both the DP and the SP.
The fact that the leaders of the two main opposition parties - Rama's arch-enemy, Berisha, and his former ally, Meta, who has become a key enemy - are in custody on corruption charges lends color to his responsibility. . political. Berisha and Meta also strongly criticized the establishment of Italian reception and plant centers for boat migrants in the north of Albania, for which Rama criticized Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in November.
In Tirana, Von der Leyen did not want to comment on the internal political dispute in Albania for the Italian institutions.
Ahead of last week's EU migration summit, the head of the Commission on Reception and Deportation Camps outside the territory sold Albania's candidates as a possible model. Europeans should "develop links with return centers outside the EU" and thanks to Rome's sentiments among Tirana, "lessons can be drawn from this experience in," wrote von der Leyen in a move of heads of state and government. .
"The EU is complete only with the country of the Western Balkans"
For those who want to migrate to their country, Meloni, Rama from Leyen place for their families, to support their families. Don't report and want to advance for the sale you want to know in no way jeva do to do it”.
EU officials in Brussels privately admit that corruption is widespread in all areas of public life and is a major challenge for Albania's approach to the EU and the country's integration into the union. Do not see the US Department for this situation nor for NATO, the reports for 2023, that is, if "corruptions and events are not there". The government in Albania has been led by Edi Rama and his SP since 2013, at the end of the cases of a coalition partner./ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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