During the meeting with pensioners of Unit No. 2 in Tirana, Prime Minister Edi Rama also touched upon Albania's negotiations with the EU. He dismissed suggestions that the negotiations are blocked, adding that everything is going according to plan. "I want to add something else that interests you more than those who are in these media pots, as I am convinced you have also seen them; 'membership was blocked', 'integration was blocked', 'progress was halted', but this does not matter. What matters is that the negotiations continue according to plan, and at this stage, we are in the conditions where we have opened all negotiation chapters, and now we are discussing with the European Commission, negotiating what are called intermediate benchmarks, which are a series of intermediate benchmarks agreed upon with the European Commission, that for x things the deadlines are these, for x other things they are these, for x other things they are these, and these stand as an annex in the negotiation process, meaning that the end of March and April were planned in our work calendar with the commission as the moment of discussion between us and the member states on the intermediate benchmarks. Today, the fate of this country has come into our hands, and fate has never smiled upon Albania as it does today, because never before has Albania had all the great powers with it. We have done our part to get here, but it is also in their interest to take us inside, and we must make the most of this moment. Making the most of this moment is the historical duty of every Albanian and certainly is the mission of our party. We are part of the same political force, and we have no reason to hide this, on the contrary," said the head of the government.