Paper prepared in the framework of the project: “Integration Perspectives and Synergic Effects of European Transformation in the Countries Targeted by EU Enlargement and Neighborhood Policies”. Albania’s EU integration process represents perhaps one of the most debated matters in the national public and political discourse.
Being considered as the strongest incentive to move forward in the democratization process, the EU integration struggle and political actors’ performance therein has attracted the attention of civil society representatives, private sector, as well as the public’s attention at large.