From Brussels, where Albania has today opened chapter VI in the negotiations for membership with the EU, Prime Minister Edi Rama admitted that despite the acceleration that the Hungarian Presidency has done, the process will be difficult to finalize.
According to him, there are no easy chapters with the European Union, while he underlined that during this process Albania will grow and mature as a democratic and law-abiding state.
"There is no chapter or paragraph that is easy with the EU, so everything must go through detailed examination, with close cooperation, through common dialogue and understanding, we expect, as I said, to open a group of chapters, but in at the same time we are not lying to ourselves because this is going to be a difficult job and we will take every step, not only to insist on what we say but also to work to improve what we do. That's why I really appreciate this process because, as the Commissioner said very well, it helps the country to grow, mature, transform and become a state where institutions are much more important than anything else. And when the whole system works as a guarantor of democracy and the rule of law, everything else works. For this chapter group that we opened today, it was not very difficult, as Albania has always been in harmony with EU policies in terms of diplomacy, security", said Rama.
Furthermore, the head of government emphasized that the dream that Albania intends to fulfill within this decade is the finalization of the marriage with the European Union and there will be no going back.
"Albanians themselves are supportive of these types of policies and we have made a clear choice as a nation that we want to marry the EU. Let's forget all the divorces of the past. There is no turning back, there is only a way forward and we must give the Albanians what they have been waiting for for centuries. And here I am bringing an emblematic sentence of our national poet, who is the poet of our renaissance, who wrote for Albanians: 'The sun rises where it sets, in the West,'" declared the prime minister. (A2 Televizion)
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