Speaking on “Inside Albania” podcast with Alice Taylor, the European Union ambassador to Albania, Silvio Gonzato, acknowledged that Albania and the Western Balkans have waited a long time to become part of the European bloc.
Discussing whether a gradual accession to the EU is fair to Albania, Gonzato put an emphasis on the reforms that the country has to deliver in order to be ready to join the bloc.
“We now are at the stage where all the elements for starting the negotiations are being finalised and what is encouraging is that Prime Minister Edi Rama, chief negotiator Majlinda Dhuka said very clearly that they don’t even want to…