justice. 15F 11 Based on the criteria, we can conclude that the notion of rule of law is very similar if not another name for the principle of equality before the law. As someone puts it,“this idea[…] is also one of the meanings of the amorphous term rule of law”. 16F 12 The Rule of Law Index presents a gloomy situation in the Balkans when it comes to the rule of law. According to its data, Kosovo is the country that performs best in the Western Balkans. Albania and Serbia are the countries with the worst performance in terms of rule of law(as shown in table 2), confirming in one way the results of the Albanian Security Barometer. Position Country Score 1. Denmark 0.90 2. Norway 0.89 3. Finland 0.87 4. Sweden 0.86 5. Netherlands 0.84 Table 1: Countries with the best performance in terms of rule of law. Source : Rule of Law Index 2020 Position Country Score 54. Kosovo 0.54 58. North Macedonia 0.53 64. Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.52 75. Serbia 0.50 78. Albania 0.50 Table 2: Ranking of Western Balkan countries in terms of rule of law, out of 120 countries. Source : Rule of Law Index 2020 *Montenegro is not part of the index. 11 World Justice Project. 2021.“Rule of Law Index 2020.” Washington DC. https://worldjusticeproject.org/sites/default/files/documents/WJP-ROLI-2020-Online_0.pdf 12 Darn Acemoglu and Alexander Wolitzky,“A Theory of Equality Before the Law.” The Economic Journal 131, nr. 636(2021): 1429. 16