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Albanian President Ilir Meta spoke to 98 students from 42 countries about security and Euro-Atlantic integration in the Balkans from the Albanian perspective at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies here, Oct. 25.

Saved the Balkans

“I want to start by affirming that in the early 90s, my country was very fortunate to have at its doorstep the best models of security architecture in the history of mankind — NATO and the European Union,” Meta said. “To the Balkan region, they have proved to be instrumental in both times of war and peace.

“I want to emphasize the fact that NATO’s intervention, particularly from the U.S., and later the EU involvement in a decisive and determined fashion, saved the Balkans from becoming the Middle East of Europe,” he said.

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Welcome to our first edition of “Marshall” in Albania. Army General Curtis Scaparrotti, commander of the U.S. European Command and NATO supreme allied commander in Europe, testified before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington on March 8, 2018 stating ““The area I am concerned about today is the Balkans actually,” he said. “Russia is at work in the Balkans and we have kind of taken our eye off the area.” “That is an area we could have problems with in the future,” he added”.

George C. Marshal Albania, with a board and almost 300 members of security experts all graduated from George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies as a United States Department of Defense and Federal Ministry of Defence security and defense studies institute, makes it a unique institution addressing these issues.

In this first edition you will find the distinguish guest speeches and remarks on the Security Conference that took place in Tirana Albania on 22nd of May 2019

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