Rama says Balkans’ future is in Europe

TIRANA, Feb. 4 – Opposition Socialist Party leader Edi Rama, also Tirana mayor, took part at a conference on the Balkans’ future along the European Union context held in Berlin, Germany from the Robert Bosch foundation.
Rama said that it was very clear that the whole region was seeing only toward integration into the European Union.
Rama also appealed to the EU to consider their membership with high priority especially taking into account the new generations growing up in these countries.
Rama said that not only the Balkan countries but EU itself should create a new vision on their joint future.
Albania signed two years ago the Stabilization and Association Agreement which is considered as the first step toward membership, though there is set no date for that. Rama also met during the event with Swedish Foreign Minister Karl Bildt who reconfirmed to him that Europe’s stand on Kosova was the Ahtisaari package of its supervised independence.