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As Podgorica approaches full membership in the European Union, a new integration model is taking shape for the rest of the Balkans, where free movement and the common market could replace the European dream of membership...
As Montenegro moves closer than ever to the finish line of European Union membership, the rest of the Western Balkans risks facing a new political reality: not EU accession, but integration into an intermediate European space, where free movement, the common market, and institutional cooperation will replace, at least for a long period, full membership.
This is the trend that is taking shape more and more clearly in the decision-making circles of Brussels and the main European capitals, where enlargement is no longer seen as a linear and inevitable process, but as a complex equation of the security, economy, and political interests of the European Union itself.
In this new panorama, Montenegro is the country that has managed to position itself better than all its neighbors. Despite internal political crises, government rotation and strong institutional polarization, Podgorica has maintained a clear strategic objective and has advanced in the negotiation chapters at a pace that today makes it the most serious candidate to become a future member of the European Union. For the first time after Croatia, a country in the Western Balkans is truly seen as a close part of the union.
Albania, meanwhile, continues to sell political optimism, but the reality is much more complicated than what is presented in official statements.
The Tirana government has invested a large amount of propaganda in the idea that the country is moving rapidly towards Europe, but propaganda cannot replace real progress.
In many respects, Albania continues to remain hostage to the problems that Brussels has identified for years: high-level corruption, institutional capture, lack of political impunity, mass emigration, and the structural weakness of the rule of law.
The biggest paradox is that Albania today enjoys a geopolitical advantage that it has never had before. The war in Ukraine has turned the Balkans into a space of strategic importance for the West. Tirana has aligned itself unequivocally with the Euro-Atlantic camp, has supported NATO policies and has maintained a stable profile in relation to Western allies. But geopolitics cannot infinitely compensate for the lack of internal reforms. At a certain point, the European Union will demand concrete results and not just declarations of political loyalty.
This is precisely the point where the Albanian government shows its greatest deficiency. For years, European integration has been used as an electoral slogan and not as a national project. Every positive report from Brussels has been presented as a historic victory, while every criticism has been relativized or hidden. Instead of the integration process serving as a mechanism for the transformation of the state, it has often been used as a political marketing instrument. This has created a huge gap between perception and reality.
If Europe is moving towards a new integration model, Albania risks being one of the countries that will be included in it.
A Balkan "light Schengen", closely linked to the European market, may offer economic benefits and ease of movement, but it does not represent the European dream that was promised to Albanians. It does not grant voting rights in European institutions, does not provide full political representation, and does not place the country at the level of member states.
Essentially, it would be a peripheral status, where obligations approximate those of members, but rights remain limited.
The risk for Albania is not only that it remains outside the European Union. The greater risk is that it becomes convinced that this is enough. That partial integration can replace full membership. That entering the European market without entering the decision-making structures is a success equal to membership. This is where a serious national debate must begin.
Because while Montenegro is counting the last chapters towards membership, Albania continues to count conferences, summits and optimistic statements. While Podgorica is measuring the deadlines for joining the union, Tirana is measuring success with diplomatic photos and promises of dates that are constantly postponed. The difference does not lie only in Brussels. The difference also lies in the way each country has handled the integration process.
Ultimately, the question is not whether the European Union will change its enlargement model. The signs are that this is already happening. The question is whether Albania will be ready for membership when the decisive moment comes, or whether it will remain part of a European intermediate category, where countries are close enough to implement the rules but still too far away to participate in decision-making.
If the latter happens, the responsibility will not only lie with a Europe tired of enlargement. It will also lie with an Albanian political class that for years treated integration as a slogan, when it should have treated it as the greatest state-building reform in Albania's modern history. And history is usually merciless with countries that confuse propaganda with progress. / Pamphlet
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