4 hours agoRama for lobby in Germany
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Unlike Northern Macedonia, Albania is not sure that it will receive a date for the first intergovernmental conference with the EU. Germany is one of the suspicious countries. Government circles from Berlin already let DW know that the Albanian prime minister is scheduled to make a call with Chancellor Angela Merkel. Sources of [...]
Unlike Northern Macedonia, Albania is not sure that it will receive a date for the first intergovernmental conference with the EU. Germany is one of the suspicious countries.
Government circles from Berlin already let DW know that the Albanian prime minister is scheduled to make a call with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Deutsche Welle sources suggest that Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama is on a two-day visit to Germany. He met on Thursday, 17,09.20 pm, at a dinner with a group of parliamentarians from the German Bundestag. Also present has been the chairman of the Socialist Party parliamentary group in the Albanian Assembly. Taulant Balla, who is also chairman of the Albanian-German Friendship Association.
According to circles in Berlin, Rama is in Germany to lobby at the largest parliamentary group in Bundestag, CDU/ CSU, to give Albania the yes to opening the first intergovernmental conference for opening negotiations with the EU. But as DW learned from parliamentary circles near CDU/ The CSU, at the meeting, did not even attend the chairman of the Western Balkan parliamentary group from the CDU/ CSU, Johann Wadefhul, nor the chairman of the EU Commission in Bundestag, Gunter Krichbaum.
Still Much Work
At an Aspen Institute conference in Berlin, held on Thursday, with 17.09., as well as a previous conference held last week at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin, both with rules “chatam house”, has come to the fore that until now ordinary EU sceptical countries, among them and Germany, have not yet been convinced that Albania deserves the opening of the first intergovernmental conference.
The two most sensitive points in the argument of skeptics from Germany are: the anti-fabric law and amendments to the electoral law agreement in parliament, just days after the parties, the opposition and the government agreed after the interventions of Western diplomats in Albania. “will need a lot of diplomatic and political work until it comes to opening the first intergovernmental conference”, skeptics in Berlin say.
No meeting with Chancellor
Albania has recently been praised by the German government for its commitment to mediate in the Belarus conflict. But unlike what had been reported earlier by some of Tirana's media. Rama has not had a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel, diplomatic sources from Berlin told DW. According to DW sources, at noon, Edi Rama will leave for Barvar.
