European Union and Albanian Legitimacy - Lorenca Bejko - Bog

As Robin Lane suggests (British historian) ¿Post communism transition in Eastern Europe will be not considered complete until this regime will be successfully integrated with the European Union. As by such, Albania coming with a background of suffering one of the most Harshest dictatiorships freely compared with North Korea. Discussion of Albanian Integration into European Union. Questioned by countries with a crucial position in the global politics and display Albania is still a located geographically perfect in Europe but politically kept outside yet. After those ¿fences¿ of European Union those are three concern that reflects the issues of identity, security and economics. Relations between the European Union and Albania were set on a new basis in 1992, when a Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and Albania was signed. Albania became eligible for funding under the EU Phare program6 and subsequently received EU funds under the external relations' aid scheme (1021 million Euro in the period 1991-2000). While in the first years it became apparent, that funding was given to Albania with very little long-term strategy.