{"id":25541,"date":"2021-11-18T21:32:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T20:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=25541"},"modified":"2021-11-18T21:32:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T20:32:56","slug":"albanians-blame-their-politicians-not-the-eu-for-the-current-standstill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albanians-blame-their-politicians-not-the-eu-for-the-current-standstill\/","title":{"rendered":"Albanians blame their politicians \u2013 not the EU, for the current standstill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU integration process is stuck because of Albania, not the EU. This is the stance shared by the majority of Albanians, but they do however pin the blame on Albanian politicians.<\/p>\n<p>About half of all Albanians (49.2%) think that the only reason for our country&#8217;s lack of integration into the EU is that we haven\u2019t fulfilled all the preset conditions. Whereas around 1\/3 blame both Albania and the EU.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, only 15% of Albanian citizens hold the EU responsible for the ongoing hiatus.<\/p>\n<p>The majority, however, blame their politicians. 4 in every 5 Albanians consider the incapacity of their politicians (80.1%) as well as their ongoing conflicts amongst one another (79.9%) as the main factors that lower their chance of becoming members.<\/p>\n<p>Data were recorded during a poll led by MRB and Data Centrum from October 20-29, 2021 that included 1.000 face-to-face interviews conducted at a national level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU integration process is stuck because of Albania, not the EU. This is the stance shared by the majority of Albanians, but they do however pin the blame on Albanian politicians. About half of all Albanians (49.2%) think that the only reason for our country&#8217;s lack of integration into the EU is that we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":25542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Albanians blame their politicians \u2013 not the EU, for the current standstill - 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\/albanians-blame-their-politicians-not-the-eu-for-the-current-standstill\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Albanians blame their politicians \u2013 not the EU, for the current standstill - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The EU integration process is stuck because of Albania, not the EU. 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