European Union Ambassador to Albania Sofia Moreira de Sousa has held a meeting with the head of the Democratic Party’s parliamentary group, Gazment Bardhi. According to her announcement on X, the conversation focused on Albania’s path toward EU membership and the role Parliament is expected to play in this process.
Meeting between the EU ambassador and the head of the DP parliamentary group
In her public post, Moreira de Sousa said the discussion with Bardhi focused on Albania’s European integration process.
She presented the meeting as part of talks on the political commitment required in the stages of rapprochement with the European Union.
Emphasis on the role of Parliament
According to the EU ambassador’s account, the discussion centered on Parliament’s role in approving reforms and aligning Albanian legislation with that of the EU.
Along the same lines, she also underlined Parliament’s function in holding the executive to account, a point that comes amid an ongoing climate of debate over the relationship between the majority and parliamentary oversight.
Message on the commitment of all sides
The ambassador stressed that the process requires the commitment of all political sides and that Parliament should function as a genuine space for dialogue.
This is the political message emerging from her public statement, while no further details have been made public from the meeting on specific issues or possible deadlines related to reforms.
The meeting comes at a time when European integration continues to be widely used in political discourse, while the challenge remains translating this goal into verifiable reforms and real mechanisms of oversight over the government.
So far, public communication on this meeting has been limited to the EU ambassador’s announcement.