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"Mr President, I should like to start by congratulating my honourable friend, Mr Chountis, on his integrated and well-presented report.
Albania, since the 2009 elections, has been going through a prolonged political crisis. Of course, Albania’s progress over recent years does not suffice to meet the accession criteria. However, we treat it extremely leniently, because this country suffered under the horrendous Hoxha regime for many years.
The major challenges to this country still remain; they are to combat corruption and organised crime and to strengthen the rule of law and restore a rudimentary modern economy.
Greece has followed a stable and inflexible policy to date, supporting and promoting the European prospects of the countries in the Western Balkans, including therefore Albania. Nonetheless, we are particularly concerned as to whether the census which is planned for 2011 and which will be paid for by the European Union will proceed smoothly because, unfortunately, there are numerous complaints of discrimination against emigrant and minority communities, such as the Greek minority.
I therefore call for questions to be asked in the census about mother tongue, ethnic origin and religion, which are prerequisites to obtaining the status of a candidate country."@en1
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