{"id":23219,"date":"2021-10-20T21:21:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T19:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=23219"},"modified":"2021-10-20T21:23:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T19:23:37","slug":"bushati-a-state-with-2-interior-ministers-involved-in-drug-trafficking-is-far-from-eu-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/bushati-a-state-with-2-interior-ministers-involved-in-drug-trafficking-is-far-from-eu-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Bushati: A state with 2 interior ministers involved in drug deals is far from EU standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In tonight\u2019s \u2018Shock\u2019 on Euronews Albania, analyst Andi Bushati argued that \u2018state capture\u2019 by those involved in crime in Albania, is one of the main reasons why our country is being refused accession negotiations by the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Bushati also commented on the progress report published today by the European Commission, saying that is doesn\u2019t hold a lot of value, seeing that in the end, it\u2019s the member states that decide and so far, they\u2019ve refused to open negotiations with Albania.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bushati, a country like Albania that is led by a government, which has so far had 2 out of it 4 interior minister, be involved in drug trafficking affairs, can\u2019t possibly fulfill the criteria set forth by the EU to become a member.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no democratic country in the world, where crime is inexistent; From the US all the way to Greece, crime is out there. The point is how the government deals with crime. If 2 out of 4 of your Interior Ministers are implicated in drug trafficking, you\u2019re not at the level of the Netherlands, regardless of the amounts of drugs that pass through its ports. When two of your Interior Ministers have been involved in drug trafficking, then this country doesn\u2019t fall within the criteria necessary to become an EU member. It falls under the criteria of those countries that need to be isolated with barbed wire,\u201d \u2013 said Bushati.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/shock\/2021\/10\/19\/bushati-on-kurtis-vv-losing-after-making-no-attempts-to-buy-votes-or-manipulate-the-elections-is-a-virtue\/\">Bushati on Kurti\u2019s VV: Losing after making no attempts to buy votes is a virtue<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/shock\/2021\/10\/13\/baton-haxhiu-kurti-has-turned-into-an-incompetent-person-running-the-government\/\">Baton Haxhiu: Kurti has turned into an incompetent person running the government<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2021\/10\/13\/tensions-escalate-in-northern-kosovo-as-serbian-minorities-clash-with-cops-during-anti-smuggling-raid\/\">Tensions rise in northern Kosovo as Serb minorities clash with cops during anti-smuggling raid<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"eneu23118\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In tonight\u2019s \u2018Shock\u2019 on Euronews Albania, analyst Andi Bushati argued that \u2018state capture\u2019 by those involved in crime in Albania, is one of the main reasons why our country is being refused accession negotiations by the European Union. Bushati also commented on the progress report published today by the European Commission, saying that is doesn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":23220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[253],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bushati: A state with 2 interior ministers involved in drug deals is far from EU standards - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/bushati-a-state-with-2-interior-ministers-involved-in-drug-trafficking-is-far-from-eu-standards\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bushati: A state with 2 interior ministers involved in drug deals is far from EU standards - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In tonight\u2019s \u2018Shock\u2019 on Euronews Albania, analyst Andi Bushati argued that \u2018state capture\u2019 by those involved in crime in Albania, is one of the main reasons why our country is being refused accession negotiations by the European Union. 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