EP: Special delegation for Albania

The political Euro-Parliamentary groups started negotiations for who will lead the delegations of Balkan countries. Confidential sources told Top Channel that the European Right Wing demanded to lead the delegation for Albania, Serbia and Macedonia, while the left wing should continue with Montenegro, Bosnia and Kosovo.

The Romanian European MP, Monica Macovei, is the lead candidate for this post at the delegation for Albania, and she will be confirmed in the next week. Macovei started her career as Prosecutor in Romania and was afterwards engaged in the civil society, as an expert at the Helsinki Committee and the European Council.

She was appointed Minister of Justice, although she was not member of any political party, and she is noted for a judiciary reform which enabled the country’s accession to the Union. Before competing for the European Parliament in 2009, Macovei worked with the Macedonian government as anti-corruption adviser.

She was involved with Albania in 2011, when she was invited by the Friends of Europe in an activity organized in Brussels for the judiciary reform, and when the government of that time had started verbal attacks against the Prosecutor General, Ina Rama.

When interviewed by Top Channel at that time, Monica Macovei declared that corruption should be fought at the judiciary, first of all, through the High Council of Justice, which is the authority tasked to act, but she also added that these justice councils had resulted a failure in post-communist countries.

“Impunity is the opposite of the rule of law, and the rule of law means that the law is implemented equally for everyone. For this reason, where there is impunity, there is no rule of law and people lose their trust on the judiciary, since it could apply against you but not against someone else. To have guarantees that the matters will be resolved rightfully, the judiciary is the first one to be cleaned. Corruption in the judiciary must be fought and the system should be liberated from corrupted or non-efficient judges, and then the work could flow better”, she said on the interview of December 22nd, 2011.

The delegation of the European Parliament for Albania will have 14 members. The European Parliament will be represented with five European Mps, with Social-Democrats taking four seats, while liberals, the greens, the conservatory, left extremists and the Euro-skeptics of Farage will have one representative each.

Prepared by: Arta Tozaj

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