The implementation of the integration criteria

The Head of this Parliamentary Commission, Ditmir Bushati, says that in the meetings held this week at the European Commission, the opposition was engaged for its part of the responsibilities.

“First of all, we will work hard for making a clear working plan for all state structures, and secondly, we will ring the alarm bells at any moment that the government will not implement the duties that it has undertaken or that it should fulfill. We are simply in the first steps and have started the Parliamentary Reform, the Electoral Reform and the laws that require qualified voting, such as the Ombudsman. As for the eight other priorities, we expressed to the Commissioner for Enlargement our will to be involved by supporting the reforms and by monitoring the steps that the government needs to take in this process. We guaranteed Mr. Lajcak that our Parliamentary structure at the Commission of Integration will have a proactive. We also agreed that it is up to the government for undertaking concrete reforms in these areas, and these are their responsibilities”, declared Bushati, head of the Parliamentary Commission for Integration.

Considering as “bitter” the practices of the past, the chairman of the Integration Commission underlines the importance of the political will for implementing the legislation.

Ditmir Bushati: we know pretty well that the key problem is not the legislation itself, but the way how the laws are implemented, how the institutions are built. And we will keep in consideration this experience, in order to have a clear process. We must not forget that the next year will be very important for Albania, and many strong political changes are expected, which will be monitored by Brussels and the other important partners that support Albania.

TCH: For example..??
We have some reforms: the Justice Reform, which has been left in oblivion. We have issues related to the public administration, issues that are related with the designation of the most important constitutional institutions of our country, issues that are related with corruption, where it is clearly seen that there is no political will for fighting them as it should. We have many important reforms, where the opposition has only a decisive role for bringing them to the citizens’ attention and other international factors.

On October 12th, the European Commission was unable to recommend the candidate status for Albania to the EU Council, since the country, as argued in the recent progress report, did not fulfill any of the 12 key priorities.

Prepared by: Arta Tozaj

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