{"id":11858,"date":"2025-11-18T11:13:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/?p=11858"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:27:35","slug":"albania-is-proud-of-the-opening-not-the-completion-of-eu-chapters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/18\/albania-is-proud-of-the-opening-not-the-completion-of-eu-chapters\/","title":{"rendered":"ALBANIA IS PROUD OF THE OPENING, NOT THE COMPLETION, OF EU CHAPTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/faktoje.al\/shqiperia-krenare-per-hapjen-dhe-jo-perfundimin-e-kapitujve-te-be-se\/\">Original article\u00a0<\/a>(in Albanian) was published on\u00a0<\/em>17\/11\/2025<em>; Author: Patris Pustina<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/rama-njofton-perfundimin-e-te-gjithe-grup-kapitujve-shqiperia-rekord-drejt-be\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOHEJZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwyNTYyODEwNDA1NTgIY2FsbHNpdGUCMzAAAR4WB-mBPDMA6xCY4nKiK7ASd3Zn81O5-IyiNiF6zwqNSVuMqFvkusBwk4-wQg_aem_-5ke51fOKyKOAX8kbjcing\"><em>\u201cRama announces the closure of all cluster chapters: Albania sets a record on the way to the EU,\u201d<\/em><\/a> reports an article published on November 12, 2025, by Euronews Albania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"758\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image.png 758w, https:\/\/seecheck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-300x113.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 758px) 100vw, 758px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot from the news <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading the headline above, a reader might understandably think that Albania is near EU membership, having completed the negotiation process for all cluster chapters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, readers should not celebrate too soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within the article, the source is cited as Prime Minister Rama, who is quoted as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ediramaal\/posts\/%EF%B8%8F-shqip%C3%ABria-e-arriti-t%C3%AB-pamendueshmen-t%C3%AB-gjith%C3%AB-kapitujt-e-negociatave-t%C3%AB-hapur-\/1389097545919236\/\">posting<\/a> on social media:<em> \u201cAlbania has achieved the unthinkable, all open negotiation chapters within 12 months, a record in the European integration process.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"975\" height=\"294\" src=\"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1.png 975w, https:\/\/seecheck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1-300x90.png 300w, https:\/\/seecheck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1-768x232.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot from Edi Rama Facebook page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So, Albania has not completed all negotiation cluster chapters, but only the opening process. In the best-case scenario, the country will require an additional 2\u20133 years of negotiations before the full transposition of European Union legislation into national law can be confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of November 2025, Albania <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Accession_of_Albania_to_the_European_Union\">has not closed<\/a> any of the negotiation cluster chapters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original article\u00a0(in Albanian) was published on\u00a017\/11\/2025; Author: Patris Pustina \u201cRama announces the closure of all cluster chapters: Albania sets a record on the way to the EU,\u201d reports an article published on November 12, 2025, by Euronews Albania. Reading the headline above, a reader might understandably think that Albania is near EU membership, having completed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":11861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[36,661,11,660,425],"class_list":["post-11858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-checks","tag-albania","tag-edi-rama","tag-eu","tag-eu-chapters","tag-faktoje"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11862,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858\/revisions\/11862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}