EU commends Albania on justice reform,asks to keep momentum
Mogherini-Hahn say also Tirana can be among favorites to join EU
14 November, 21:05Mogherini highlighted that today's meeting "was very positive" and stressed repeatedly Tirana's commitment to the "ambitious and unprecedented" justice reform and to the fight against organised crime and corruption, which has already brought "concrete results", such as yesterday's substantial prison sentences for the members of an important criminal organisation.
EU Enlargement Commissioner, Johannes Hahn added that "it is not cast in iron that Montenegro and Serbia are the first to reach the finish line" in the race between the Western Balkans' countries to join the EU. Mogherini recalled that currently, they are the only ones in the region to have already started the negotiations, "but once others will start to run then the race will be open and everybody can be frontrunner". "Expectations can be indeed open and different as of next year", she said.(ANSA).