about whether albania is ready to join today on talk to al-jazeera the prime minister of albania eddie raman. thank you for the minister for talking to today i want to start by asking you about the country's european prospects which is the major political issue facing this country for many years now a few weeks ago the european union held parliamentary elections across the continent and millions of people voted albania wants to join the european union but seems unable to hold municipal elections is albania ready to join the european union. know all been is not ready to join european union because. this is still a long way ahead but of course we are ready to start the session talks for which we have already. committed and. delivered based on the commission reports. and recommendation to the member states to consider opening accession talks with and north macedonia. what would albania bring to the european union more and more europeans are asking what does albania have to offer the e.u. . i'm not sure that. the majority of europeans that. deal with political affairs are aware that it will be n