Albania will receive the payment of nearly 100m euros this time, exactly 99.3m euros.

Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina thus remain the only countries in the region that have yet to be able to benefit anything from this package. Bosnia and Herzegovina has not approved the Development Plan and the reform agenda, while Kosovo was among the first countries for which the Commission has approved such an agenda since the fall of last year. But the payments for Kosovo are not possible, as there are no institutions in Kosovo that would make formal agreements with the EU, and that agreement would pass by 2/3 with ratification in the Kosovo Assembly.

Thus, because of the ongoing institutional crisis in Kosovo, Kosovo is unable to receive payment from this plan, even though technical and formal conditions had long before met.

For the European Commission, it is important that countries of the region benefit from this package because it helps reforms, economic development and can accelerate their integration into the European Union as well.

The European Commission has warned on several occasions that this package is special and that it also has limited deadlines. Tools that will not be used by any country in the region will go towards those countries that meet the conditions.