TIRANA, May 7 /ATA/ – Prime Minister Edi Rama on Thursday underlined the decisive role of the European Union in Albania’s integration process and in consolidating justice reform in the country.
Speaking at the opening session of the World Law Congress in Tirana, the government head stated the EU remained the primary source of expertise for building independent and functional institutions.
“The EU is the only source from which to learn how institutions are built, and this process of knowledge transfer is a blessing for Albania,” the Prime Minister said.
He stressed that justice reform was an irreversible process and that the government remained committed to moving it forward without any backtracking.
“We are determined to ensure there is no turning back in this process and to guarantee the establishment of an independent justice system,” Rama said, adding that European Union support was a guarantee for the success of the reform and the strengthening of the rule of law in the country.
“The entire integration and negotiations process is a process of transferring knowledge from Brussels to Tirana, and it is a blessing, because no country builds institutions entirely on its own after paying the price of being a country without a state and institutions,” he said.
“I am confident this process will not be reversed. We are committed to making it irreversible, and this is a very important guarantee for Albania and Albanians,” Rama added.
“If the EU were not there and Albanians did not aspire to join it, we would never succeed in building an independent justice system – or we would achieve only what Iraq and Afghanistan achieved after Western and NATO efforts to bring democracy to those countries. The difference is that we have the EU and they do not,” Rama said.
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