Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama is hosting the other two leaders of the Open Balkan initiative – Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev – in Tirana for a two-day summit.
They are expected to sign agreements to facilitate the movement of workers, electronic identification at the border, cooperation on food security, and customs checks for companies dealing with security and defense.
Delegations from each country will include a number of government ministers and presidents of chambers of commerce.
On Tuesday, Oliver Varhelyi, the European Commissioner for Enlargement will join the summit from Brussels, while Emir Djikic, the Director of the CEFTA Secretariat, and Majlinda Bregu, the Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council will also attend.
Jim O’Brien from the Atlantic Council and Alexander Soros from the Open Society Foundations will also participate in the summit, according to the summit agenda.
Meanwhile, former president and prime minister Sali Berisha has called for the first opposition Democratic Party protest against the Open Balkan today at 4pm.
