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TIRANA, Nov. 24 – Albania’s hopes of opening accession negotiations with the European Union sooner rather than later have hit a new snag as German lawmakers have set more conditions, which could mean there will not be any negotiations until 2018. The lawmakers, from the CDU-CSU group in the Bundestag, will vote against the opening of negotiations between Albania and the EU, said Gunther Krichbaum, head of the German ruling party parliamentary group, speaking at a press conference in Tirana on Thursday. Krichbaum, a prominent politician close to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said Albania does not meet the preliminary criteria…
