(ANSA) - BRUXELLES - The European Commission has recommended to the Council of the European Union to give the green light for launching membership negotiations with Albania: Tirana deserves its EU candidate status, EU High Representative Federica Mogherini and the EU Commissioner Enlargement Johannes Hahn said at the European Parliament in Strasbourg today. Brussels has recommended opening membership talks with Skopje too, Mogherini and Hahn announced today, presenting the so-called 'enlargement package'. According to the European Commission evaluation, after having focused on the required reforms, the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia has intensified also the negotiations with Greece in the last months, in order to reach a solution on the name dispute. The final decision on the talks will be reached in June, at the EU leaders summit. (ANSA).