{"id":72266,"date":"2024-10-14T19:50:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T17:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=72266"},"modified":"2024-10-14T19:59:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T17:59:10","slug":"albanias-membership-in-the-eu-first-chapter-opens-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albanias-membership-in-the-eu-first-chapter-opens-on-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Albania&#8217;s membership in the EU, first chapter opens on Wednesday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albania will open the first group-chapter of its membership in the European Union on Wednesday in Luxembourg.<\/p>\n<p>European Council has revealed the agenda of the inter-ministerial meeting, where the judicial system, fundamental rights, justice, freedom and security, as well as public procurement and financial control will be discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Following the presentation of the revised methodology for the accession negotiations in 2020, the negotiating chapters are divided into six thematic groups: Basics; Internal market; Competitiveness and inclusive growth; Green agenda and sustainable links; Resources, agriculture and cohesion; and foreign relations.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations for the Basics group are opened first and closed last. Progress in this group will determine the overall pace of negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>After the separation from North Macedonia, Albania takes a step forward in joining the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Rama will be present for the opening of the first group-chapter tomorrow in Luxembourg, who will participate in the conference that will be held on this issue at 9:25.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Agenda:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>08:00 \u2013<\/strong> Opening of the Intergovernmental Conference<\/p>\n<p>Opening of talks with the EU on Group-chapters &#8211; Fundamentals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>09:40 \u2013<\/strong> Joint press conference.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albania will open the first group-chapter of its membership in the European Union on Wednesday in Luxembourg. 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Following the presentation of the revised methodology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":72267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,1803],"tags":[4056,308,243,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Albania&#039;s membership in the EU, first chapter opens on Wednesday! - 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\/albanias-membership-in-the-eu-first-chapter-opens-on-wednesday\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Albania&#039;s membership in the EU, first chapter opens on Wednesday! - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Albania will open the first group-chapter of its membership in the European Union on Wednesday in Luxembourg. 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