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02:47And here comes factor number two, which is exactly Brussels, that changed its approach and woke up.
02:59Unfortunately, it was needed an aggression in the European soil, military aggression, to make Brussels wake up.
03:11Not simply in the level of the Commission, where we have always found fairness, very painful, very neurotic, but fair.
03:23But also in the level of the Council, where the blah, blah, blah of before, that yes, one day we'll be together, yes, we love you, yes, we're going to marry, but we are not ready to talk for the moment, was over.
03:41And a new momentum is still here, and the new approach, it's still the case.
03:53I hope that this will not fade away, and I very much hope that we will finally get together around the same table.
04:04Yeah, I was about to ask you about whether, you know, whether this momentum and this situation of more of serious commitment, as you describe there, whether it is going to last.
04:14Albania is now considered one of the front runners.
04:17Your goal is to enter the EU by 2030.
04:21Now, how do you also see this situation with the shifting goalposts by Brussels changing, or possibly not changing, for the other countries in your region?
04:34Well, for this you have to ask Brussels, but as far as I am concerned, I might tell you that the 2030 is not a date that I saw in a dream,
04:48but it's a deadline that is the result of a very simple calculation.
04:56We start from the fact that together with the Commission, in full consensus with the Commission,
05:03we have agreed on a calendar that is very ambitious, but it's doable, of homework for us to conclude the accession talks, the negotiations, at the end of 2027.
05:19There is a possibility to do it even faster, let's say the first half of 2027, and there would be reasons for that, but let's say end of 2027.
05:27And then the average time we have looked into when it comes to the 27 parliaments to ratify the decision is around two years,
05:43and this is how we envisage Albania to sit around the table of the EU on 2030.
05:51But, of course, we are not at all against to be there faster.
05:56Everyone has its own path, and everyone has to fulfill its own obligations and to do its own homework.
06:05So there are different characteristics in the region, there are different countries, different histories, and so on and so further.
06:14When it comes to us, I can say with a very loud voice that we are the most Euro-optimistic nation in Europe, or as Donald Trump would say, on earth.
06:30Prime Minister, there is a specific focus as well by Brussels, this is slightly on the downside probably of the report,
06:36with the focus from Brussels coming regarding the issue of corruption.
06:40Now, what I want to ask you is that Albania is the first country in the world to appoint an AI as government minister,
06:47specifically tasked with fighting corruption.
06:50Now, would you give us an update?
06:52How is Diela doing?
06:54How is her and your fight going on?
06:58Albania is doing something unseen and unique in the whole region.
07:05Our justice reform and our recognition of not only the Europe but the de facto independence of justice
07:16and the full-fledged operation of special structure against organized crime and corruption
07:25has practically created in Albania and for Albania the example that the fight against corruption
07:38is something that goes very, very, very much beyond words, very much beyond make-ups,
07:47and it goes very deep and it goes very, very, let's say, balanced without looking left, without looking right,
08:01independently from who is in government, who is in opposition, who was in power, who is in power.
08:08And with a lot of facts that show that what never happened in Albania from the day of independence
08:18and creation of the Albanian state in 1912 to until very few years ago, it's happening the last year,
08:27something that no other country in the region can claim to have done.
08:31And this is not to say that we are better than the others, but this is to say that we have taken it very seriously.
08:42And in this moment in time, we accept support, we accept partnership, we accept help,
08:52but we don't accept lectures from anyone when it comes on fight against corruption.
08:57And of course, when it comes to Diela, she is the product of a systemic fight,
09:04which is not just about fighting cases and fighting in the court of law,
09:13but which is about fighting through modernization.
09:16And we aim to have, within 2027, the first full AI public procurement
09:24that will allow speed, transparency, accuracy in levels that are unseen.
09:32Prime Minister, finally, let me ask you to wrap this up.
09:36What is the next creative idea and the next creative solution coming from you
09:41and from Albania on your way to the European Union membership?
09:44I'm sure you have heard that Diela is pregnant and she has 83 babies based on the last echography.
09:55So we have to wait for her to give birth to these 83 babies.
10:01And in the meantime, I have to tell you one thing that has not been much discussed,
10:06that we are the only country in this process to use artificial intelligence
10:13in the transfer of the acquis communautaire to our body of law
10:17and to make of it the fastest process ever made in terms of not only translating,
10:28but also analyzing the impact and drafting and preparing the whole legal packages
10:41for the approval in Parliament.
10:44So we are trying to run as much as possible and to make as much as possible leapfrogs
10:55using technology, artificial intelligence, but without never ever forgetting
11:01that our place in Europe is first and foremost deserved
11:06because Europe has the best place in the heart of the whole Albanian nation,
11:12something that the others cannot pretend.
11:14Prime Minister, I have to follow up.
11:15Do you think Brussels could use an AI commissioner?
11:18It's not for me to tell Brussels what to do,
11:21but of course I would be very happy to introduce Diela with whomever on the EU side
11:30will introduce him or herself like an AI commissioner
11:35or an AI technocrat or bureaucrat or whatever else.
11:42It doesn't matter.
11:43Prime Minister, thank you very much for this interview and for your time
11:46and thank you very much for joining us here.
11:48There was 12 minutes with Eddie Rama, Prime Minister of Albania.
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