The Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama, said, on Thursday 15 February at the launch of the European Economic and Social Committee’s (EESC) initiative to invite civil society representatives from the EU candidate countries to participate in the EESC’s work, that “it is now time for the EU to realise that the candidate countries from the Western Balkans are in a situation where they deserve to be embraced and brought closer”.
According to Mr Rama, this type of rapprochement between...