Abstract
The paper looks at a challenging domestic environment for Europeanization by analysing electoral reforms in Albania. Free and fair elections have been part of the EU's political conditionality for integrating Southeast Europe since the 1990s. However, even though electoral reform remained high on the political agenda in Albania, progress in accomplishing free and fair elections was only partly achieved. Domestic political elites instrumentalised the electoral reform with the aim of getting control over state resources without consolidation democratic structures. The case of Albania shows the limits of Europeanization in transforming the institutional environment in the context of Southeast Europe.
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