{"id":21275,"date":"2025-08-18T12:03:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albaniancoasthomes.com\/\/macron-urges-regional-investment-as-albania-nears-eu-goal\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:29:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:29:55","slug":"macron-urges-regional-investment-as-albania-nears-eu-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albaniancoasthomes.com\/de\/macron-urges-regional-investment-as-albania-nears-eu-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron Urges Regional Investment As Albania Nears EU Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"21275\" class=\"elementor elementor-21275 elementor-20363\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6145c1f e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6145c1f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2e04fde elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2e04fde\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday invited foreign investors to come to &#8220;stable&#8221; Europe, including to Albania, which he sees obtaining EU entry in 2027.<\/p><p>Europe &#8220;is a stable and reliable place,&#8221; he told economic forum &#8220;Priority Europe&#8221;, organised by the Future Investment Initiative (FII) institute of advertising executive Richard Attias.<\/p><p>&#8220;And in this crazy world, don&#8217;t underestimate the strengths of such qualities,&#8221; Macron said at the Tirana event aimed at connecting European leaders and innovators with sovereign wealth funds and Middle East, Asia and US business leaders.<\/p><p>&#8220;Here in Albania, clearly, you have the entry point in this region of Western Balkans, but much more broadly it&#8217;s a key point in the Mediterranean place and Europe.<\/p><p>&#8220;And in two years to come, as now he has a clear mandate, he will join the EU,&#8221; added Macron, referring to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama.<\/p><p>Albania entered talks to join the European Union in 2022 and Rama said that the process could conclude with the country joining in 2027 if all goes to plan. &#8220;That would be incredible,&#8221; said Rama in an interview with AFP. <\/p><p>The country of some three million is by far the most pro-EU in the Balkans. In 2024, 92 percent of those questioned in a poll said they would vote &#8220;yes&#8221; if a referendum were held on EU membership\u2014compared to 40 percent in Serbia. <\/p><p>The challenges of meeting accession requirements remain sizeable, notably in terms of combating corruption.<\/p><p>Several ministers and several senior officials, former president Ilir Meta, and the mayor of Tirana -\u2014 a close Rama associate &#8212; are currently in detention on suspicion of embezzlement.<\/p><p><strong>To read the original article, please click on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/news\/macron-urges-regional-investment-as-albania-nears-eu-goal-00e7c633\">link<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday invited foreign investors to come to &#8220;stable&#8221; Europe, including to Albania, which he sees obtaining EU entry in 2027. Europe &#8220;is a stable and reliable place,&#8221; he told economic forum &#8220;Priority Europe&#8221;, organised by the Future Investment Initiative (FII) institute of advertising executive Richard Attias. &#8220;And in this crazy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-market-trend-insights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albaniancoasthomes.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albaniancoasthomes.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albaniancoasthomes.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albaniancoasthomes.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albaniancoasthomes.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21275"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/albaniancoasthomes.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22278,"href":"https:\/\/albaniancoasthomes.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21275\/revisions\/22278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albaniancoasthomes.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albaniancoasthomes.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albaniancoasthomes.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albaniancoasthomes.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}