Germany backs Albania in EU membership negotiations

Stability should be a priority for European foreign policy. This applies especially to Western Balkan countries. If the EU fails to advance in the integration process with these countries, we are discussing this issue currently will have fatal consequences. For a long time, other powers -- Russia, China, the Middle East countries -- meaning, states with a completely different idea of order and stability than those embraced by us in Europe -- have sought to fill this void”, Maas said, broadcast ATSH.

Of course, EU integration depends on countries that meet clearly defined criteria. It's never been questioned. The focus is on liberal democracy and a functional state based on rule of law. Some countries have made satisfactory progress in these” areas, he added.

According to him, Albania has also made visible progress by carrying out ambitious reforms in the judiciary.

That is why he says he has expressed support in the conditional opening of accession talks with these two countries (Macedonia and Albania. )

“If they undermine their integration perspective, all the reforms that have begun will be filled with”, he has said. Besides the courage to unite, the EU needs the instruments needed to implement these policies in practice. Part of the new transatlantic reality means that we have to take more responsibility for our security, because we can no longer rely on the other side of the Atlantic to do this for us. We need the true European Union in the field of security and defence”, German Foreign Minister Hayko Mass stressed.