Albania And The European Union

When will Albania join the EU? Will accession help Albania to achieve prosperity, stability and prosperity? And, what factors are helping it towards this end and what factors are holding it back? An original study of Albania and its relations with the EU, this is the first book to identify and analyse the problems of the country as it moves towards membership of the Union. It explores the political, economic and social transformations needed to make Albanian membership possible. The authors highlight the enormous democratic changes that have occurred in post-communist Albania, as well as the many obstacles that still remain. This balanced and objective assessment will be an essential resource for everyone interested in the history and future of the Balkans and the EU.

Albania and Europe in a Political Regard is a multidisciplinary work which aims to develop different points of view in the field of social sciences. In this sense, it is not by chance that the chapters cover a variety of different disciplines like history, sociology, political science and philosophy. These chapters stand alone and, at the same time, create a whole network of relationships between Albania and Europe. An important element of this work is its multidimensional considerations of Europe; it is conceptualised on a number of different levels throughout the chapters, sometimes as a continent, sometimes as an organization, and other times as a leader. In some chapters, Europe is understood in terms of European integration or European civilization. In others, Europe is simply the idea of the continent and its reflections in the Albanian society. The main axis that drives the chapters is the idea of Albania in relation to Europe – how this relationship is understood, how it has worked in the past, and how it works today. The idea of Europe in this book is conceptualised and explored in a number of different ways, from the idea of “European modernity” to a “soft power”, from a “construction of identity” to a “model of behaviour”, according to each author’s varied point of view and discipline of studies. All the nine chapters in this volume utilise different ways of thinking and approaches, but are all connected by a common axis, that is, Albania and Europe in a Political Regard.

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2021 in the subject Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: Cumma Sum Laude, , course: Diplomacy, language: English, abstract: The aim of this research is to develop a visceral understanding of the politics behavior of Albanian state toward the approval and the complex road of Entering the European Union. To come across comparison of Albania with developed member countries in European Union to for a better contemporary equality drive adopted by modern nations. All the research is proposed to be conducted within the normal period of 3–4 years full time study. The proposed research is planned to be library-based with key resources such as legal/political agreement reports, theoretical quantitative data collected via cases, journal articles but expanded into other sources such as governmental institutions, courts and socio-legal statistics centers based in political studies. Its aim is to be combined with empirical data such as interviews of governmental representative different academics, politicians, public relations specialists from European Union, EU council, Albanian Government and such. There have been evidences of corruption, drugs, human trafficking and poverty that are strong indicators of the slow progress of Albanian state into the European Union integration and conducting statistical research into those categories will shed light in so many unanswered questions. An analysis focused into rules in books, rules in European Law approach versus EU law in action combined with a critical doctrinal overview focused mainly in deployment of techniques such as literary criticism and political perspectives.

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 1, Diplomatic Academy of Vienna - School of International Studies (Vienna School of International Studies), course: Regional and Cohesion Policy of the European Union, language: English, abstract: CARDS is an abbreviation and stands for Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development and Stabilisation. In general there are many assistance programmes for the Balkans and South East Europe. The CARDS programme was established with the Council regulation No 2666/2000 of December 5 in 2000. The overall amount which has been spent by the European Union till the starting process with the Stabilisation and Association Process (SAP) was about 6.8 billion euros by the end of 2005. A key factor in the external relations of the EU is to promote stability, democratisation and peace to non EU member states such as Europeans neighbours. The European neighbourhood policy is an example for the co-operation between the EU and the neighbours of the Union. Therefore in European Union law a debate is going on that the EU needs to have a legal personality. The EU needs to have legal personality in the future because the EU has internal policies that could only be fulfilled with external measures or policies. The status right now is that only the EC has treaty making competences. Those competences at the status quo are rather limited. Art. 24 of the EU Treaty (Nice) allows the EU to establish Agreements which are binding on the member states and the institutions of the Union. Such Agreements are for example the European “new” neighbourhood policy, Agreements for pre-accession or Agreements with the so-called ACP countries (African, Caribbean and Pacific countries). The Western Balkan falls into the category of the Accession Agreements, which means the goal is the accession to the European Union and the transformation of the legal system(s) according to the acquis communautaire.

Albania's historical quest for nationhood and independence has been a very turbulent one. Over the last 150 years Italy has been both a "partner" and a "foe" of Albania. Today Albania is in the "waiting room" for membership of the European Union (EU) together with other Western Balkan countries. As the Ukraine events have demonstrated, the process of membership of the EU can be politicised. Despite Albania's desire to enter the EU, membership is not guaranteed. Dr Perparim Xhaferi is a research fellow at the European Centre of excellence/RMIT University in Melbourne. Marco Brunazzo is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento (Italy). Bruno Mascitelli is an Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.

Despite all efforts to create a political union capable of improving European citizens’ quality of life, there are several barriers to the European Union’s (EU) expansion to the Balkan Region. The EU enlargement and expansion to the Balkan Region is one of the Union’s greatest challenges and political objectives in recent years. In the turmoil of economic, social, and sanitarian crises, where is the space to debate the enlargement of the EU? Challenges and Barriers to the European Union Expansion to the Balkan Region presents the EU’s structure, the process of enlargement, and the challenges related to the Balkan region. This book addresses critical issues and challenges in the EU and the emerging trends for the EU’s future. Covering topics such as enlargement policy, integration, NATO, and political challenges, this book is a valuable resource for post-grad students of political science and international affairs, faculty of higher education, researchers, academicians, politicians, world leaders, and policymakers.