Foreign relations of Albania

On the issue of Albania, Mitsotakis stated that Greece is "the guardian of Albania's European trajectory," adding that issues regarding the Greek national minority are not bilateral matters but are directly linked to Albania's accession to the EU.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama is planning to hold a rally for Albanian immigrants living in Greece on November 3 at the Porto Palace Hotel in the northern port city of Thessaloniki.

BERLIN - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and other Western Balkan regional issues Miroslav Lajcak, who attended Monday's Berlin Process summit, says the time has come to make EU integration of the Western Balkans a reality.

BERLIN - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic said on Monday in Berlin, where he attended the 10th anniversary Berlin Process summit, that Serbia remained committed to the EU path as its main strategic geopolitical objective and that the impression after the summit was that Germany wanted to see the Western Balkans in the EU.

Greece will continue to spearhead the integration of Western Balkan states into the European Union, Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis confirmed during a ministerial meeting in Berlin, part of the "Berlin Process."

They discussed the issues of the European Summit and the forthcoming European elections

The situation in some parts of the Western Balkans is volatile and problematic in the rest.

The road to Albania's EU membership negotiations faces an unexpected halt due to Greece's recent action, reported EurActiv. Greece has wielded its influence within the Council of the EU to obstruct the opening of the initial five chapters necessary for Albania's EU membership negotiations to commence.

Rama is visiting the region as part of preparations for the Berlin Process, which Tirana will preside over in October.

June 21, is the 20th anniversary of the EU-Western Balkans Summit in Thessaloniki, Greece. At this historic event, the European Union and the acceding and potential candidate countries from the Western Balkans at that time committed themselves to each other.