The foreign ministers spoke with Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama, President Ilir Meta, and Acting Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Gent Cakaj. They also took part in a meeting with representatives of the foreign affairs and European integration committees.

The talks with Albania’s leadership focused on the current state of the country’s reforms, which determine its progress towards European integration. The sides exchanged opinions about the European Commission’s proposal on the EU enlargement process. - With the changes to the accession process, the negotiating countries will be able to move towards EU membership more quickly, on the basis of their reform progress - emphasised Minister Czaputowicz. The chief of Polish diplomacy also called for preserving the cross-party political dialogue and unity of Albania’s political class as key elements of EU membership efforts.  

Another important point on the agenda involved Albania’s expectations ahead of the EU-Western Balkans summit to be held in Zagreb in May. In this context, Minister Czaputowicz summed out the results of the Western Balkans summit in Poznan, organised under Poland’s presidency of the Berlin Process.  

The ministerial talks in Albania were also an occasion to underline the very good cooperation with Tirana within NATO. In this context, the officials expressed their confidence in the Alliance’s vital role for security architecture in Europe and globally.  

A meeting between the foreign ministers and students of the University of Tirana was a chance to discuss the future of European integration, the EU’s development prospects, and its enlargement policy.

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