Thus the Financial Times today. “Move likely to antagonize anti-EU populist parties,” elaborates the newspaper. As the argument goes, taking in the poor and mainly Muslim state is highly divisive at the time when fears of immigration and organized crime are gripping France, Britain, the Netherlands, and Germany. Stefan Füle, the Union’s enlargement commissioner, is about to deliver a report in Tirana stating that Albania has made sufficient progress in corruption, organized crime, and judicial reform to become a candidate. It is anyone’s guess how long the candidacy will take, but it cannot be less than a decade. The same holds for the remaining Balkan countries still awaiting membership. Interestingly, my thoughts went along with one of the commentators, who argued that there should be less fear from giving Albania membership than from not giving it. Exactly. The article itself missed this point entirely. For the rest of his mandate, this should be Füle’s main argument, too. Without the prospect of joining the Union, the remaining Balkan countries are a serious threat to its security. France, Britain, the Netherlands, and Germany, beware.