EU Summit Agenda/ Who are the leaders coming to Tirana on May 16?

Tirana will host 47 European leaders on May 15 and 16 as part of the European Political Community Summit. The theme of the meeting is "New Europe in a New World: Unity, Cooperation, Joint Action".

Top EU leaders, European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen, European Council President Antonio Costa and EU foreign policy representative Kaja Kallas will attend an informal dinner with Western Balkan leaders.

British Prime Minister Keir Stramer will begin a bilateral meeting on May 15, where he will meet with Prime Minister Rama. The focus of the discussion will be another crackdown on illegal Albanian immigrants in the UK.

Some of the Summit leaders

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer

French President Emmanuel Macron

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

President of Kosovo Vjosa Osmani

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic

Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Fico

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

 

Summit agenda

10:00 – Arrival

11:00 – Opening ceremony

11:30 – Family photo

11:45 – First plenary session

13:00 – Official lunch

14:30 – Thematic table

15:45 – Bilateral meetings between Heads of Delegations

17:30 – Closing plenary session

18:30 – Joint press conference with the Prime Minister of Albania and the Prime Minister of Denmark (next host)