Albania has officially started negotiations to join the European Union, reports BGNES.
The Committee of Permanent Representatives of the Governments of the EU Member States (Coreper) adopted a decision to open the first cluster in Albania's membership negotiations. This important milestone will be marked by the EU-Albania Intergovernmental Conference to be held on 15 October in Luxembourg.
BGNES recalls that Albania and the Republic of North Macedonia were supposed to start membership negotiations together, but this became impossible after the regime of Macedonian Prime Minister Christian Mitkoski refused to meet the conditions set in the negotiating framework. For this reason, at the end of September Brussels decided to separate the two countries. I BGNES
