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Editorial: European integration: a fleeting dream or still a guiding compass for Albania?

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The last State of the Union address from Commissioner Juncker made a brief mention of enlargement, comforting enough for some, yet re-iterating the negation of any significant enlargement decisions until spring of 2019. A few concrete and hopeful words were given for Serbia and Montenegro, the forerunners of the process while Albania and the rest of the region aspirants had to be content with a dry re-affirmation of their European perspective. The rising complexity and worse insecurity of the enlargement process is starting to dawn over even the most optimistic pro-EU societies like Albania. European integration is included in the…

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