TIRANA, April 3 – The National Council for European Integration held its consecutive meeting on Monday where the achievements and challenges of the Berlin Process and the common regional market were discussed.
In the capacity of the co-chairman of the council, the chairman of the parliamentary group of the Socialist Party (SP), Taulant Balla, “assessed that we have tried to give a parliamentary dimension to the Berlin Process, since the launch of this initiative from the first meeting held in August 2014 in Berlin and at the next meeting in Vienna.”
Balla said that the Berlin Process is inseparable from the “Open Balkans”.
“The ‘Open Balkans’ is the only instrument for implementing the principles of the Berlin Process, because while we are talking about a process that was initiated in August 2014, what the ‘Open Balkans’ is bringing is the implementation of the principles on which it is set up by the EU itself, such as the free movement of goods, people, and capital,” he said.
In her speech, the co-president of the Council, Jorida Tabaku, said that “Albanian citizens have not managed to understand the important tasks that the Berlin Process has carried out during these years and how this is translated into their daily lives”.
The Democratic Party (DP) has supported the Berlin Process and all the role that this process will have, but at the same time the increased importance for the region, not as a substitute for the integration process, but as an additional element that helps Albanians, she said.
Tabaku said that politics and Albanian citizens want results today, they expect them immediately, but this process not only tests Albanians’ patience, but also sets the results in a challenging manner spread over time. /Argumentum.al
