Book of Recommendations of National Convention on European Integration 2025

Beyond documenting the milestones of Albania’ s EU accession process, this Book of Recommendations 2025 serves as a practical and analytical guide for understanding the country’ s reform trajectory in relation to the acquis. It is designed not merely as a catalogue of recommendations but as a framework that connects sector-specific reforms to the broader integration agenda, showing how progress in individual chapters contributes to Albania’ s overall path toward membership. The book is structured into three core sections, each dedicated to a pivotal chapter under negotiation: Chapter 5 – Public Procurement, Chapter 23 – Judiciary and Fundamental Rights, and Chapter 24 – Justice, Freedom, Security.

Each section begins with an overview of the current state of reforms, highlighting both achievements and persisting challenges, and situates these within the negotiation framework and benchmarks assigned by the European Commission. The heart of each section is the synthesis of expert roundtable discussions, where practitioners and civil society actors contributed concrete recommendations tailored to the Albanian context.

These recommendations are not presented in isolation; rather, they are contextualised within the EU accession logic, ensuring their relevance for both domestic stakeholders and EU interlocutors. By integrating descriptive analysis and policy-oriented recommendations, especially those emerging from the roundtable discussions (either fully or partially addressed by the relevant institutions in change, outlined in the last section), the book aims to serve as a practical resource for practitioners engaged in public policies.

This material was produced within the project “Building Partnership on Fundamentals: Empowering CSOs for the EU accession process”, with the financial support of the European Union. Its content is the sole responsibility of the European Movement in Albania and the authors, and does not necessarily reflect the views and positions of the European Union.

The project “Building Partnership on Fundamentals: Empowered CSOs in the EU accession process” is being implemented by the European Movement in Albania (EMA), with the financial support of the European Union – IPA Civil Society Facility 2021, in cooperation with the Academy of European Integration and Negotiations (AIEN), Slovak Foreign Policy Association (SFPA) and the Center for Transparency and Freedom of Information (CTFI).

Book of Recommendations of National Convention on European Integration 2025