Following the recently-assessed Balkan countries' progress reports by the European Parliament, the EPP Group has taken the initiative to lay the ground for the next steps in the European Integration of FYROM, Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In an EPP Group conference the Stabilisation and Association Process, its experiences, challenges and opportunities has been debated with, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania, Sali Berisha, thw Foreign Minister of FYROM Nikola Poposki and other guests. The event was opened by the EPP Group Chairman, Joseph Daul MEP, and chaired by Vice-Chairmen of the EPP Group, Gunnar Hökmark .