Editorial: New uncertainties hit Albania’s EU bid

Optimism for anything happening fast on Albania’s bid to join the European Union has long evaporated, but even for the few remaining optimists that hoped to get a date on the decade-long horizon at a key summit in Sofia this week were disappointed. Touted as a way to refocus EU’s attention on the Western Balkans, the summit showed instead that the EU itself remains divided on how it sees enlargement and the region. This time the problem was not Brussels itself. The EU’s bureaucrats have gotten the message that if nothing is done to show the Western Balkans some actual…