2025 Commission report on Albania

Tabled by Ilaria Salis, Danilo Della Valle, Emma Fourreau, Rima Hassan, Hanna Gedin, Jonas Sjöstedt

… the EU enlargement process, and welcomes Albania’s active participation in regional initiatives; Added: underlines, however, in this context, that such cooperation must under no circumstances be used by EU Member States to compel Albania, or any other candidate country, to undertake measures that would contradict EU law; highlights the fact that cooperation cannot be a vehicle for circumventing EU obligations or undermining fundamental rights, as illustrated by recent judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union in connection with the Italy-Albania Memorandum of Understanding1a; recalls, in relation to this matter, the concerns expressed by the Court of Appeal of Rome1b regarding the current use of the Gjader centre as a full-fledged pre-removal detention centre (‘centro di permanenza per i rimpatri’), which appears to be in violation of Article 9(1) of Directive 2013/32/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection1c; underlines the need for deeper security cooperation within the Western Balkans, fostering … the protection of critical maritime routes and environmental sustainability in the region; Added: ______________ 1a Judgment of the Court of Justice of 1 August 2025 in joined cases C-758/24 and C-759/24, LC, CP v Commissione territoriale per il riconoscimento della protezione internazionale di Roma – sezione procedure alla frontiera II, (, ( 1 ) Alace and Canpelli, ECLI:EU:C:2025:591. 1b Causa C-707/25, Sidilli: Domanda di pronuncia pregiudiziale proposta dalla Corte d’appello di Roma (Italia) il 6 novembre 2025 – Questura di Roma / JA (http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/160/oj); Causa C-706/25, Comeri: Domanda di pronuncia pregiudiziale proposta dalla Corte d’appello di Roma (Italia) il 6 novembre 2025 – Questura di Roma / SG (http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/159/oj). 1c OJ L 180, 29.6.2013, p. 60, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2013/32/oj.

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE783.321