Balkans Open: Chancellor Merkel says Tirana word

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, at a joint conference with Prime Minister Edi Rama, has been asked by reporters that the Berlin Process has failed. Merkel does not consider this process a failure (including the Open Balkans).

I don't think that's the case, we can't say that the building of highways is finished, but there are processes that are initiated. We have scientific exchanges with Balkan countries P. As far as civil society is concerned, I've met with representatives of a nongovernmental organization in your country and told me how they're developing. Vuciq and Rama, given they haven't had a long exchange, I think since they met, a lot has changed. The EU is not as fast as it should be, but much is on track”, Merkel said, conveys Periscopi.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Edi Rama praised the Berlin Process and the role of Chancellor Merkel in the process.

When the Chancellor invited me to Berlin in 2014, it was the first time in the history of this region, in the centuries-old history of this region, that leaders of all countries sat on a roof, not to be killed, and to call, but to talk about the future. To continue its argument, this process opened the way for the establishment of communication between Albania and Serbia to function in regional development, in conditions where the near distance had never been met. The Berlin process has its own need, there are some slow mechanisms, and the open Balkans that we now have as the initiative of the three countries aimed at involving all six countries are the result of this process because it has given us the opportunity to understand that by co-operation, by communication, by interaction, we can build the common future. Conflicts, in the atmosphere created by the Berlin Process, have solutions. Not only do I not call it failure, but I call it a long-term vision that will be passed from one government to another, from one generation to another, to realising in our region what the Chancellor has preceded“, Rama said. /Periscope