EU experts disappoint Albania: You can only join in 2050

It seems that Albania's European dream is moving away year after year in time. If by 2013 when the Renaissance came to power, the border by 2020 was also acceptable to the most skeptical of the Brussels Chancellors, we are far from opening membership negotiations today.

Recently two well-known field experts -- Tina Freyburg and Tobias Bömmetlt -- have compiled a study and submitted it for “London School of Economics and Political Science”. In their deepening work, indicators and prospects have been addressed, based on data about the economy, the rule of law, human rights, corruption and the presence of organised crime in all countries that are aspiring to membership in the European Union. Of the results of this new study regarding the ability of candidate states to meet accession criteria, Albania results, several decades away from that goal.

Renowned experts Freyburg and Bömight have concluded that only one of the current EU candidate states -- neighbouring Macedonia -- is likely to meet conditions by 2023. Meanwhile, two other Slavic-dominated countries -- Serbia and Russia -- seem to be able to achieve this success in the mid-2030s.

When considering Albania's chances, the news is shocking. Our country, along with Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has major ethnic internal problems, turns out that they are unlikely to continue with the current performance, to meet the criteria for EU membership before the 2050 year.

Two leading field researchers are, respectively, professors at the universities of St Gallen, Switzerland and Essex in Britain.