Albania is dead last in the race to join EU

It can be safely said that, of all the countries that are envisioned to be party of this agreement, Albania is DEAD LAST in the race to join. A year after the ‘initialling’ (not signing) of the Agreement between some Brussels bureaucrats, and Albania few EU parliaments have ratified this agreement. Incidentally, the SAA process with Serbia and Bosnia is expected to last 1 year. Compare this to Albania’s 5.

SAA Ratification Process
AUSTRIA    BELGIUM    GREAT BRITAIN    DENMARK    ESTONIA    FINLAND    FRANCE    GERMANY    GREECE    HOLLAND    HUNGARY    IRELAND    ITALY    LATVIA    LITHUANIA    LUXEMBOURG    MALTA    POLAND    PORTUGAL    CYPRUS    CHECK REPUBLIC    SLOVAKIA    SLOVENIA    SPAIN    SWEDEN		Date of signature The date of signature shall be the same in general for all the Parties on the grounds of an Agreement/Convention and shall be indicated in the Details of the Agreement. However, should one ore more Parties sign on a later date, when the Agreement/Convention is open for signatures, this information shall be mentioned in the Details of Ratification. Date of Notification This is the date when one Party notifies that the Secretariat-General of the Council has ratified/approved/concluded and has agreed to an Agreement/Convention. Entry into Force Generally, the date of entry into force is set according to the date of notification of ratification of an Agreement/Convention by all the Parties, in compliance with the conditions cited in the Agreement/Convention. These dates are mentioned in the Details of the Agreement. Nevertheless, certain Agreements/Conventions may enter into force prior to the ratification by all Parties (for example, the Convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations). In these cases, it is necessary that a certain number of Parties with the right to signature shall notify the Council of the ratification, for the entry into force of the Agreement/Convention among these parties. This date shall be mentioned in the Details of the Agreement. The Agreement/Convention shall enter into force - for the remaining parties with the right of signature - following their notification of ratification to the Council. These dates shall be indicated in the Details of Ratification. Declarations/Reservations Printed versions of the texts of the declarations (D) and reservations (R) and territorial reservations (T) made by the Parties for an Agreement/Convention, can be accessed to by clicking on the underlined letters D, R, T which are indicated in the details of ratification of the Agreement/Convention.