“Waiting for Godot”, a theatrical play where the protagonists wait for something that never happens, has become a favourite catchphrase of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama to describe the feeling that some candidate countries have towards potential EU membership.
“Albania (is) Estragon, the European Union is Samuel Beckett,” Rama said in June 2022, after a EU-Western Balkans summit.
Currently, nine countries aspiring to join the EU and hold candidate status are at various stages of the accession process. Seven of them have already opened the accession negotiations, the last stage of the path to membership.
However, the process has stalled on Brussels' end at least since the time of the former European Commission led by Jean-Claude Jun
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