Why did we fail with the status?

But why did Albania fail even this time in Brussels. For what causes the priorities were not fulfilled again?

Gentian Elezi, professor for Integration Matters at the European University of Tirana analyzes the failure of the political criterion.

“The specific political criteria, which include the Parliament functionality and the approval of some laws that have been left behind, all of them, have in its core the voting by the qualified majority in Parliament. The climate that has been built up in the last year not only has not allowed the approval of these initiatives, but on the contrary – and we know the events that occurred – they deteriorated the political situation and the possibility for passing these laws. The progress report has nothing new, and now the parties should not debate if the glass is half empty or half full. They know that the glass is half empty”, Elezi declared.

According to Elezi, the blame can be easily identified with the failure to realize the political priorities.

“Some criteria do not require qualified majority in the Parliament and could have been fulfilled by the majority without the opposition. The bigger reforms are the ones that felt the absence of the opposition”, Elezi declared.

Will there be any chance for Albania to receive the status on December, in the next meeting of the Council of Ministers?

“There is room for an improvement, but it seems that it is turning into an alibi. The possibility is too small, if there is no political will from the parties”, Elezi declared.

Erion Muharremaj, who teaches Justice, lists a series of factors for Albania’s failure to realize the two priorities of the judicial system.

“In the Albanian judicial system is missing a real and effective meritocracy system, as regards the judges’ work evaluation. I don’t know if there is any transparent system that evaluates the judges’ work. Most of the trials are still held in the judges’ offices, what have not enabled the development of a regular process, not only formally, but also because this enables the interested parties to contact with the judge. Justice not only must be served, but it must be seen that justice is being served. The public’s opinion is that there is a high level of corruption in the justice system. There are a series of factors, closely tied to each other, that have made Albania unable to implement these two criteria set by the EU”, Muharremaj declared.

Same as in the previous reports, the implementation of the human rights has received critics. Mrs. Vjollca Mecaj, director of the Albanian Committee of Helsinki says that the legislation is not enough, but their implementation is far from being realized.

“The institutions that the state has created for supporting the women are very few. One of the problems with the women is the insufficient number of women in the country’s government. And also the laws for the children, because we have very nice laws about them, but the truth is that today there illiterate and unregistered children. For the Roma community there is a good platform, but we are still having a discriminating mentality for this community”, Mecaj declared.

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