The first EU-Albania inter-governmental conference will take place in Luxembourg next Tuesday, Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, said on Facebook on Friday. 

The conference that he will co-chair with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama will mark the opening of the first Albanian accession chapters, heralding the real start of the country’s EU membership negotiations, he said, adding that this represented a “historic success” notched up during Hungary’s EU presidency.

“We have made speeding up EU enlargement the key goal of the Hungarian presidency; what’s more, Hungary has achieved this,” Szijjártó declared.