{"id":412,"date":"2013-10-12T12:24:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T09:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/?p=412"},"modified":"2013-10-12T12:24:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T09:24:29","slug":"italy-backs-albanias-eu-candidate-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/italy-backs-albanias-eu-candidate-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy Backs Albania\u2019s EU Candidate Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_413\" style=\"width: 495px\" class=\"wp-caption aligntop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-413\" src=\"http:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bonino-Rama.jpg\" alt=\"Emma Bonino meets Albanian PM Edi Rama\" width=\"485\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-413\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma Bonino meets Albanian PM Edi Rama<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Foreign minister Emma Bonino said during a visit to Tirana that Italy was working to ensure that Albania receives its EU candidate status this autumn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re great supporters of your joining the European family,\u201d Bonino said at a joint press conference with her Albanian counterpart Ditmir Bushati on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian foreign minister stressed however that \u201cthe EU is not just an opportunity but also discipline\u201d.  <\/p>\n<p>After meeting with Bushati, she also held talks with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and speaker of parliament Ilir Meta.<\/p>\n<p>Italy is Albania&#8217;s leading commercial partner. Trade reached nearly two billion euro in 2012, and in the first quarter of 2013 amounted to 972 million euro, a year-on-year increase of 5.94 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last decade, Italy&#8217;s Directorate General for Development Cooperation has allocated over 300 million euro in aid to Albania.<\/p>\n<p>Economic ties between the two countries will be strengthened further by the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline, TAP, which will carry gas from energy-rich Azerbaijan to Europe, and crosses Albanian territory.<\/p>\n<p>The TAP project, which is supported by the EU as a way of boosting European energy security, envisages a pipeline of about 800 kilometres with an initial capacity of ten billion cubic metres of natural gas per year and the potential to reach 20 billion cubic metres. balkaninsight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign minister Emma Bonino said during a visit to Tirana that Italy was working to ensure that Albania receives its EU candidate status this autumn. \u201cWe\u2019re great supporters of your joining the European family,\u201d Bonino said at a joint press conference with her Albanian counterpart Ditmir Bushati on Wednesday. The Italian foreign minister stressed however [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[45,37],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","category-16","tag-italy-backs-albanias-eu-candidate-status","tag-prizren-post"],"views":826,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}