TIRANA, Feb 21 /ATA/ – The fourth EU-Albania Intergovernmental Conference is set to take place on March 18 in Brussels, the Polish diplomacy chief Radoslaw Sikorski announced during a hearing at the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET).
The conference will mark the opening of negotiations on Cluster 3 on Competitiveness and Inclusive Growth. Foreign Minister of Poland highlighted advantages of the EU enlargement policy.
“We are looking forward to opening a new cluster of accession negotiations with Albania with an intergovernmental conference scheduled to take place next month, as well as to continuing negotiations with Montenegro. EU enlargement is a win-win process with mutual gains, both for the candidate countries and for the EU. I would illustrate this with trade figures between German and Poland since Poland became an EU member. Trade exchanges between our two countries saw an eightfold increase,” Radoslaw Sikorski said.
On October 15, 2024, Albania opened the Cluster 1 on Fundamentals which includes the foundations of the rule of law and democracy.
On December 17, 2024, the country opened negotiations on Cluster 6 on external relations, foreign, security, and defense Policy.
/TV Klan/ /r.e/u.sh/
