TIRANA, Oct 9 /ATA/ – Minister for Local Government Ervin Demo took part on Thursday in a meeting with members of the Council of the EU’s Working Party on Enlargement and Countries Negotiating Accession (COELA), held in Tirana as part of a fact-finding mission on Albania’s EU membership talks.
The meeting, attended by Prime Minister Edi Rama, Environment Minister Sofjan Jaupaj, and other local government representatives, focused on assessing progress in reforms and discussing next steps in the accession process.
Minister Demo described the gathering as “another testimony to Albania’s determination to move decisively toward the European family.”
The COELA delegation, accompanied by the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU, is meeting this week with Albanian state institutions, civil society, and the business community.
According to the EU Delegation in Tirana, the visit underscores the EU’s strong commitment to advancing Albania’s accession process based on merit and tangible, sustainable reforms. Albania has opened 28 negotiation chapters in just 11 months, with the latest four opened on September 16 at the sixth Intergovernmental Conference with the EU.
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