The chairman of the EU-Albania Joint Parliamentary Stabilization-Association Committee, New Democracy MEP, Manolis Kefalogiannis, is on an official visit to Albania.
According to the Greek media, on July 19, he will chair a meeting of the Committee where the country's EU membership path will be discussed.
Then he will visit the city of Himara and its elected mayor, Fredi Beleri, who is being detained in a prison in Tirana, to be informed "about the issue of properties and the expropriation of the properties of Basque residents" .
28 MEPs, as well as 28 MEPs of the Albanian Parliament, participate in the meeting of the EU-Albania Joint Committee. The issues that will be discussed are related to the functioning of the rule of law in Albania, media freedom, the fight against organized crime in Albania, good neighborly relations and the protection of minorities.
The members of the Joint Committee will have meetings with the Speaker of the Assembly of Albania, the Minister of the Interior, representatives of the opposition parties and ambassadors of the EU member states in Albania.