The EU’s Committee of Permanent Representatives of 27 member states authorized the Polish EU presidency to open negotiations with Albania on a new cluster of chapters after concluding that the country has made sufficient progress.

The Polish presidency of the Council of the European Union sent a letter to Albania on Wednesday, requesting the country’s negotiating position on four key policy areas included in the Cluster 4 Green Agenda and Sustainable Connectivity.

The talks will be part of the upcoming Sixth Intergovernmental Conference, expected to be scheduled by the Polish EU presidency soon.

The negotiation Cluster 4 includes key economic and structural reforms with direct impact on citizens’ daily lives and the country’s long-term development.

This cluster also includes important reforms in transport policy, focusing on road and rail infrastructure and safety; energy policy, aimed at ensuring sustainable and affordable energy supplies; trans-European networks, improving Albania’s connectivity with EU corridors; and environmental protection and climate change, through alignment with EU standards.

Chapter 14, which deals with transport policy, aims to improve road and rail infrastructure and safety;

Chapter 15 relates to the energy sector and ensuring a sustainable and affordable energy supply;

Chapter 21 focuses on trans-European networks and the infrastructural interconnection of Albania with EU countries, as an important part of the European Corridors;

While Chapter 27 assesses environmental protection and climate change mitigation, through high EU standards.

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