European integration, Rama from Brussels: Putin woke up the EU institutions!

During the press conference from Brussels, Prime Minister Edi Rama spoke about the EU integration process, where he said that they have two challenges.

One has to do with what is expected from Albania and the other with what they may face in the future.

"I mean, when you work with EC and everything happens according to the rules, it is predictable, but when you go to KiE there is unpredictability. The challenge is how much these two things will come together at a given moment, when we have done our homework. Sometimes you've done your homework, but the upstairs isn't even ready to wait for you. Let's see if the stars will be aligned as they should so that even when we are ready and when they are ready, it will be the same moment", said Rama.

He added that the EU institutions have been awakened by President Vladimir Putin and said that he hopes that he will not fall asleep again when the war in Ukraine is over.

"There is a dramatic change in the EU's capacity to listen since Vladimir Putin woke up the EU institutions. I'm sorry he woke them up and I hope he doesn't catch them again when the war is over."

Among other things, regarding the integration process, the prime minister said: " There is nothing for those who should become members to choose what to do. It's called negotiation, but it's homework. We have to do what they ask us. But the important thing is to do it for ourselves, not for them. Doing what the membership process requires is doing something extraordinary for our countries. The process is of strengthening the democratic state. Anyone blessed to be in Europe and not integrated into the EU has this tool. When we talk about institutional democracy, we talk about something very realistic because we have the EU in it".