TIRANA, April 12/ATA/-On Thursday, the 7th session of Austrian-Albanian Joint Commission for Economic Cooperation was held in Vienna.
The Albanian delegation was headed by Deputy Minister of Finance and Economy Albana Shkurta while the Austrian delegation was headed by Director-General at the Federal Ministry of Digitalization and Economy Franz Wessig.
Shkurta and Wessig signed the Protocol of Economic Cooperation.
The heads of the two delegations made presentations of the economic situation in the two countries, the level of the bilateral economic relations and their perspective.
Further on, the two sides exchanged views on financial cooperation, digitalization, e-government, education and health included.
The talks focused even on cooperation for protection of environment or topics like development of vocational education and mines.
The role and contribution of the Austrian Development Agency also occupied a special place in the talks.
In the context of Albania’s European integration, both delegations discussed on relations of Albania with the EU, the Berlin process, establishment of twin relations and other EU-funded projects.
The Austrian side presented the priorities of the Austrian Presidency of the EU, July 1 to December 31, 2018 like support for integration of the Western Balkans and especially for Albania opening the EU accession negotiations. /e.malaj//e.caushi/p.s./
