BRUSSELS – The eighth EU-Albania Accession Conference will be held on 26 May to confirm Albania’s fulfilment of the interim benchmarks and to set closing benchmarks for Cluster 1 ‘Fundamentals’, the Council announced today. This means that Albania will be able to begin closing negotiating chapters with the EU. The announcement follows today’s meeting of […] The post Albania fulfils interim benchmarks for Cluster 1, moves to next stage of EU accession appeared first on European Western Balkans .