European Union’s new strategy on expansion has closed the door to Albanian Premier Edi Rama’s government. For at least ten years, the doors will be shut to Albania, as the opening of the negotiations with EU seems far away.

All the “merit” goes to Rama and his government. The galloping corruption, taking justice under control, criminality, Rama’s government’s links to drug traffic are the arguments that have left Albania in the end of the line among the Western Balkans countries.

The new strategy makes clear to politicians in all six countries — Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia — that they will have to get much more serious about establishing the rule of law, cutting out corruption, cracking down on organized crime, settling bilateral disputes and undertaking a range of other democratic changes.

“Joining the EU is far more than a technical process. It is a generational choice, based on fundamental values, which each country must embrace more actively, from their foreign and regional policies right down to what children are taught at school,” says the new strategy, obtained by POLITICO ahead of its approval by the Commission on Tuesday.

“The Western Balkan countries now have a historic window of opportunity to firmly and unequivocally bind their future to the European Union. They will have to act with determination,” says the strategy, to be unveiled by EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and Johannes Hahn, the commissioner for enlargement.