TIRANA, April 11 /ATA/ – Albania will hold its fourth intergovernmental conference with the European Union in Luxembourg on April 14, Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU has formally affirmed.
The decision was unanimously made by the ambassadors of the 27 EU member states in Brussels.
The meeting will serve to open negotiations with Albania on Cluster 2 ‘Internal market’, including Chapters 1 (free movement of goods), 2 (freedom of movement of workers), 3 (right of establishment and freedom to provide services), 4 (free movement of capital), 6 (company law), 7 (intellectual property law), 8 (competition policy), 9 (financial services) and 28 (consumer and health protection).
Albania opened the EU accession negotiations on the first cluster of accession, Fundamentals, on October 2024. Cluster 1 covers justice reforms, rule of law, human rights and functioning of the democratic institutions.
On December 17, 2024, during the third intergovernmental conference, Albania opened EU accession negotiations on Cluster 6, which covers external relations, foreign, security and defense policies.
On Tuesday, EU foreign ministers will discuss ways to speed up enlargement to the Western Balkans, with Albania and Montenegro being at the forefront of the process.
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