On July 13th , 2015, Martin SCHULZ, EP President, is in&nbsp;Albania for an official visit. He meets&nbsp;Ilir META, Speaker of the Parliament of Albania. Extracts&nbsp; from the press point and meeting with the president of the Albanian republic Bujar NISHANI

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SCHULZ, Martin (S&D, DE)

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META, Ilir (AL)

Official visit by Martin SCHULZ, EP President, to Albania: meeting with Ilir META, Speaker of the Parliament of Albania, extracts from the press point and meeting with the President of the Albanian republic

Flags of Albania and European Union (1 shot).

Cutaways with official cars arriving (2 shots).

Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, arrival at the The Parliament of Albania (2 shots).

Speaker of the Parliament of Albania Ilir Meta meeting and handshake with EP President Martin Schulz.

Inside shot of the Parliament, Speaker of the Parliament of Albania Ilir Meta together with EP President Martin Schulz.

Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, meeting Gramoz Ruci, leader of the Parliamentary Group Socialist Party, Shp&euml;tim Idrizi, leader of the Party for Justice, Integration and Unity, and the deputy from the Socialist Party Taulant Balla.

Meeting hold by the Speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Albania Ilir Meta with EP President Martin Schulz.

Speaker of the Parliament of Albania Ilir Meta speaking (3 shots).

SOUNDBITE (English), Martin SCHULZ, EP President, "I took by plane in the morning at 9:05 in Munich to come to Tirana. The conclusions of the European Council of the Euro Member States were done at 8:40, so until I entered the plane and went to my place not sure if I had not to leave the plane immideately and to fly back to Brussels."

SOUNDBITE (English), Martin SCHULZ, EP President, "Then I want to ask you for your understanding when I express first of all my satisfaction about agreement the Heads of States of Government have found in the morning in Brussels. This is solution not only for Greece, the solution for European Union and it is a solution which helps also Albania not to be drawn in even deeper crisis of the European Union."

SOUNDBITE (English), Martin SCHULZ, EP President, "I owe gratitude for Albanian's progress especially in the regional cooperation. What Albania did during the last two years is from the highest importance for trust and stability, trust building and stability in the hole region."

SOUNDBITE (English), Martin SCHULZ, EP President, "What have happened in the second part of 2015 is too early. I share the view of Mr. Meta there are reforms on the way here that not depends from effectiveness and the success in implementing the reform in the success to develop the reform to suggest the necessary form steps and implement it. But I want to underline that in my Parliament Albania finds a lot of support but we are not the only institution and we just discussed how we could promote in the second half of the Parliament with debates in the European Parliament, a way to a positive answer to your question. So I can't positively answer to your question but I can promise you that we have your question in mind."

Meeting held by the Speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Albania Ilir Meta with EP President Martin Schulz (7 shots).