The news was announced on Friday by the Minister of State for Public Administration and Anti-Corruption, Adea Pirdeni, who highlighted that this step brings the Albanian administration closer to the administrations of the European Union member states.

Pirdeni emphasized that this will further accelerate the pace of Albania’s accession to the EU.

“In the European Public Administration Network, where Albania has just been officially accepted as an Observer, to further align our administration with those of the EU member states and to accelerate the pace of Albania’s EU accession,” Minister Pirdeni said.

Pirdeni is in Budapest, where yesterday she signed the Action Plan for the training of Albanian civil servants in the EU accession process with Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Péter Szijjártó.

This visit takes place in the final weeks of Hungary’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union, which, following the opening of negotiations for Cluster I “Fundamentals” in October, just a few days ago announced the green light for the opening of negotiations for Cluster VI, on External Relations.

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