(ANSA-AFP) - TIRANA, OCT 23 - EU chief Ursula von der Leyen
on Wednesday pledged that membership expansion would be high on
the Brussels agenda, as she arrived in Albania at the start of a
tour of six Balkan nations hoping to join the bloc. "Rest
assured that enlargement will remain top priority in my next
mandate," van der Leyen told a joint press conference with
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama. "We have now all the necessary
tools and all the instruments that we need in place, so let's go
to a good work," she added. Rama said that there was "no debate
on whether Albania's place is in the European Union, and our
children's future must be shaped only in the EU". "We are EU
fanatics", the prime minister stressed. (ANSA-AFP).
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