''On July 14, we close the first three chapters of negotiations with the EU''/ Rama from Jala: Complex process with many challenges
Prime Minister Edi Rama, during a conversation with young people at 'RinCamp 2026' in Jalë, focused on Albania's European integration process, describing it as a complex process that includes technical, political and geopolitical challenges. According to him, Albania has managed to significantly accelerate the process, thanks to the use of artificial intelligence.
" This is a complex process that is talked about a lot but in fact very few know the process from the inside. This is a process that has a complexity of a technical nature, that has a complexity of a political and geopolitical nature. It is a process when we say technical, I am not talking about fulfilling the conditions that you must meet to advance and become a member state. This means that in all areas you must meet the standards. The process means that Albania must include in its body of laws about 4000 legal and sub-legal acts related to the process. It took Croatia 7 years to transpose the laws. We created the AI model with Diella and in fact we accelerated the transposition exponentially, we did the transposition in a very short time with an accuracy of 99%. Being able to do all this and pass the acts through the legislative path but still this is not enough because you have to implement them. You can "It is not enough to implement and pass laws, it is necessary for 27 member states to agree to take the next step. That family functions by consensus ," said Rama .
The Prime Minister added that Albania has faced several political obstacles in the integration process, noting that the opening of negotiations has been rejected three times by several member states.
He also focused on relations with the Netherlands, which he described as among the most difficult in relation to the European Union, adding that the organization of the Conference League final in Tirana had a positive impact on changing the perception of Albania.
" We have generally encountered this from large countries that were not ready to take the process forward. They have refused to open negotiations 3 times. Our relations with the Netherlands were the most difficult relations we had with the EU, how a football match turned the wheel of the history of relations with the Netherlands. The Conference League final in Tirana, Roma-Feyenoord. Suddenly they saw that Albania was not the one in the stereotype created by the media, as criminals or drug addicts, but they saw that Albania was something else. It is a comprehensive process ," Rama emphasized .
Prime Minister Rama announced that he will travel to Paris at the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron for the July 14 celebrations and then to Brussels, where, according to him, the phase of closing the negotiation chapters will begin.
" I will go to Paris because we are invited by Macron for July 14 and then to Brussels where we will start closing the chapters. We opened all the chapters in record time and now we will start closing them. We close the first three chapters on July 14, this is trust and control ," Rama added .
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