Rama: Mini Schengen is a strategic project with exceptional benefits for Balkans

Prime Minister Edi Rama is holding a joint conference with EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhely. Rama said all countries have submitted to the EU and the European Commission requests that the digital green card be recognised in the EU.

Rama: Mini Schengen is a strategic project with extraordinary economic, social and political benefits for the entire region. The Berlin process is the beginning and we are on the ground when we are possessing the process and moving into the hands of the European Commission. The July 5th meeting will be the last to take place in the current format and next year to take place under the auspices of the Commission in the presence of the Balkans and EU countries. This is ambition and desire that we fully share with the commissioner.

We have decided in parallel to what is related to programmes in those three directions that I have spoken to the plan and a series of ambitious points to connect with progress made with our country in those areas where we need to make progress in the EU space.

If we take steps toward the lives of four freedoms, ambition is to get to know us in the EU in terms of trade, data governance, in terms of economic performance opportunities.

We within the region, but two days ago and Hungary bilatherally have agreed to free movement in office without extra obligations. Today, all countries have submitted to the European Commission and the EU, the request that the green digital citizen card of a country in our region be recognised throughout the EU space, and that we move freely.