‘The time of luke-warm Europeans is over’

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• "This year's focus is obviously on the implementation of justice reform and on an orderly conduct of the Parliamentary elections in June. Times of election are always a time of heightened tensions, as witnessed currently by various actions of protest in Tirana. But it is important to keep emotions and actions under control, as cooperation among political forces, but also with Albania’s international partners will have to continue, even after 18 June. If we see orderly elections and progress in the judicial reform, Austria will strongly support a positive EU-decision on opening accession negotiations," says Austria's Ambassador to Albania Johann Sattler