The "Role of Municipalities in the European Integration Process" has arrived also in Patos as part of the public meetings tour that the "Municipalities for Europe" project is conducting in each municipality of the country to present the findings from the Evaluation Report of Local Governance Performance in Albania regarding the EU Integration process.
Mayor Balilaj emphasized in her speech the great attention that Patos Municipality has shown towards the process of local data collection, in order to build this report that will serve as a valuable source of information for central level policymakers and coordination of joint actions, to accelerate the path towards integration into the large European family.
The Evaluation Report for 2018 was presented by Ms. Jolanda Trebicka, project manager of the Municipalities for Europe project, who expressed, among other things, the great importance of Local Government Units in Albania for the whole process of European Integration, as the end point of most of the implementation of EU legislation is local government.
Food safety as one of the criteria for EU membership was the main topic of the meeting in the Municipality of Patos, where Mr. Lazar Korra, Program Manager for Agriculture and Food Safety at the Delegation of the European Union in Tirana and Mr. Gramoz Sokolaj from the Agency for Support to Local Self-Governance also attended.
The meeting was concluded with the presentation of the European Union programs and funds by the project staff, who informed all participants about the many opportunities that the European Union offers to Albania, Albanian institutions and civil society in our country.
