Politics back. How?!

TIRANA, Sep. 1 – Summer heat is over and all Albanian politicians are supposed to have been on vacation and now refreshed for the new start of the political life.
What is expected this autumn?
Albania needs a new start, new politics and real and sincere efforts for reforms. Albania and Albanians would like to win the candidate status of the European Union.
The international factor also has said that depends on Albania itself, if it can fulfill the requirements clearly set from Brussels. That is also strongly stressed by Washington, Albania’s strongest ally and supporter that, through its ambassador in Tirana Alexander Arvizu made a repeated call this week that real reforms should start for the country to get integrated into Europe.
But what are Albanian political parties saying?
All of the politicians always mention that European integration is the country’s primary goal.
Albania has applied for the EU’s candidate status two years ago and it got a negative answer last year.
What they, politicians, do is different. Everyone hopes their behavior will change.
The problem remains with the way or the priorities they have set for themselves.
The government does little to that. There are practically no reforms as asked from the European Commission’s progress report last year. The government will talk much about the achievements of the country’s tourism industry, though people along the shore may not support that idea.
The governing Democrats will also focus, as heard till now from their rare statements, on the electoral reform but no constitutional changes.
The opposition Socialists say they will have a new strategy and will be back in parliament. They have made clear they want constitutional amendments, starting from the election of the president, expected next year. They have ‘forgotten’ the calls for the government resignation and have not mentioned street protests so much. They still insist that the country first needs to change the way elections are held, which they consider the basis of democracy.
If we consider all these words and stands, not much remains to be said on the country’s integration. Time has passed fast and by the end of October or early November Albania will have the new progress report from Brussels, which unfortunately may not be different from last year’s one