The Parliament gathered today to discuss the draft resolution for supporting the EU accession negotiations.
PM Edi Rama and the opposition leader, Lulzim Basha, exchanged heated arguments about the situation with the EU accession negotiations, and who it to blame.
Basha said that the opposition has already presented a 5-point plan for helping the country overcome the current political crisis, although it shouldn’t have been them taking the first step.
Basha declared that the German Parliament has set clear conditions that the electoral reforms cannot be carried out without the opposition.
“There is the opposition that has a 5-point plan for overcoming the crisis and a man who wants the negotiations to fail. His party is cooperating with crime and this absurd must come to an end”, Basha declared.
On the other hand, the Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama, said that the conditions set by Germany before opening the EU accession negotiations are more about their internal situation in Germany.
“The electoral reform is seen as a condition by Europe, not only for opening the EU accession negotiations but also for resolving the crisis in Albania”, Rama said, making I clear that they will not wait for two opposition members to implement the OSCE recommendations.
“We will implement the OSCE recommendations and then the condition set by Germany is set”, Rama said.
For Basha, the country is in a current stalemate, and that the reason that the EU accession negotiations aren’t open yet is Edi Rama, not the people of Albania, and his personal failure.
Rama, on the other hand, said that Europe has its own problems and this is being reflected in Albania as well. As an example, he mentioned Kosovo which was told to fulfill several conditions before the visa regime is lifted, but Europe failed to deliver after Kosovo did so, while on the other hand, they keep opening other chapters with Serbia.
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