Albania's artist-turned-prime minister Edi Rama, who has secured his fourth term in office in parliamentary elections at the weekend, has vowed to integrate the Balkan nation into the European Union.His leftist Socialist Party won more than 52 percent of the vote on Sunday,

Albanian Prime minister Edi Rama has secured an unprecedented fourth term in power after his Socialist Party sailed to victory in Sunday's election, official results showed on Tuesday, although the opposition claims the vote was stolen.

The EU saw the vote as a test of the democratic maturity of the Balkan nation, by far the most Europe-oriented in the region.