TIRANA, May 20 - Albanian opposition lawmakers and supporters on Wednesday ended a 19-day hunger strike after political leaders agreed to EU-sponsored talks to end a political crisis. The European Parliament sent a letter Wednesday to the two top Albanian leaders bluntly telling them that unless they reach a political compromise, with their assistance, the country could not proceed more on its path toward integration into the European Union.

The main opposition Socialists say top officials from their party and Prime Minister Sali Berisha’s Democrats will attend a Thursday’s meeting or dinner in Strasbourg. The Socialists said that Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele will also be at the meeting.

Berisha and Rama are invited at a dinner in Strasbourg from the European Parliament’s head of the right and left-wing groupings Joseph Doul and Martin Schulz respectively.

The latter from Doul and Schulz invited Berisha and Rama at a dinner in Strasbourg saying that better they reach a compromise than expect a negative response to the country’s candidate status and the thousands of pages of responses to the questionnaire needed for that.