TIRANA, April 26 /ATA-I. Vata / -The head of EU Delegation to Albania Ambassador Romana Vlahutin and the Albanin Deputy Interior Minister Romina Kuko attended Thursday the conference on the Role of Municipalities in Albania’s EU Integration Process.
The focus of this conference was the municipalities preparation towards Albania’s accession path to the EU.
During her speech, the EU Ambassador Romana Vlahutin stressed that “the EU counters projects will provide for mayors and citizens of the municipalities to be better informed about all the opportunities that EU offers at the local government level aimed at developing absorption capacity that will help Albania to become a European Union member.”
“EU-funded projects aimed at providing the first Albania’s mapping of municipal performance related to EU affairs. You are closer to the citizens and the municipalities make very important contributions to the rule of law, property rights, human rights, social policies, rural policies and development, education,” Vlahutin stated.
While, the Albanin Deputy Interior Minister Romina Kuko stated at the conference on the role of municipalities in Albania’s EU integration process that, “The Albanian Interior Affairs Ministry reaffirms its key role in supporting and monitoring the decentralization process, benefiting inter alia from the support of many stakeholders .”
Kuko added that, “Municipalities empowerment is not only a specific challenge for Albania but it is also linked to the common European integration path of the entire Western Balkans region.” /a.g// a.i/
