On Europe Day, Prime Minister Edi Rama declared that the EU remains a dream and a promised land. During his speech at the meeting, which was also attended by EU Ambassador Silvio Gonzato, Rama said that the rule of law cannot be negotiated.

"For us Albanians, Europe remains even in these cloudy times what it was when it was unattainable, except among those weak waves that illegal screens brought from outside Albania to our television screens. Europe for us remains a dream and a promised land, an unchangeable national trust and an unchanging political mission. Not because we are naive, nor because we have illusions, but because we know very well, better than anyone else on this continent, what it means to live isolated and surrounded by walls to protect ourselves from Europe.

By establishing a justice system that is second to none in our region.

It is the most meaningful expression that makes Albania not a place to go to the EU, but for the EU to become an inseparable part. It would be impossible for us to undertake and no longer implement such a reform with all the understandable difficulties, if we did not have Europe as a dream and promised land, as an irreplaceable trust and mission, and on the other hand if we did not have the EU as an inseparable partner on this path where the EU's knowledge transferred to us on how a country can turn into an architecture of justice, is something that cannot be bought and thought about outside the perimeter of Europe. Being in the EU is an opportunity. The EU guarantees the perimeter of the rule of law. The rule of law cannot be negotiated, but only respected when you have it and built when you don't have it," he said.