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Politiko 6 Maj 2019, 12:39

Ne foto: zv/Ambasadori i OSBE ne Tirane, Robert Wilton

Në editorialin e numrit të fundit të Tirana Times, gazetë që botohet në anglisht dhe ka si audiencë trupin diplomatik dhe të huajt që jetojnë në Shqipëri, janë pikërisht përfaqësuesit e ambasadave që marrin një kritikë të fortë.

"Ka patur një lëvizje kureshtare, por që nuk ndihmon, të vëmendjes së trupit diplomatik në Tiranë, drejt travellologjisë (travelogy) një mënyre të vepruari që ka të bëjë me të përjetuarit, provuarit, përshkruarit dhe të promovuarit e panoramikes, kulturores, kulinares, dhe kënaqësive që rrjedhin prej tyre, të një vendi, me fokus te ekzotikja", shkruan Tirana Times.

Gazeta, bordi editorial i së cilës përbëhet nga ekspertë të mardhënieve ndërkombëtare, e fokuson editorialin e radhës te Samiti i Berlinit, dhe thekson se qeveria duhet t'i gjejë gabimet te vetja dhe jo te vendet antare të BE. Në këtë 'amnezi' të qeverisë ndikojnë edhe ambasadorët në Tiranë të cilët, sipas editorialit, kanë kaluar në travellologji, duke shpërfillur problemet strukturore të vërteta dhe krizën akute që shpaloset çdo ditë në Shqipëri.

Po aty citohet studiuesi Ivan Krastev sipas të cilit 'një shtet i dobët në krizë është i madh sa një elefant', por kur vendos t'i mbyllësh sytë, nuk mund ta shohësh më, pavarësisht përmasës.

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL

The much-anticipated Summit in Berlin where German Chancellor Merkel and French President Macron gathered all Balkan leaders had a fallout that resembled a cold sobering shower for many of the region’s politicians but also for the public opinion. The latter has been fooled more than once by conflicting messages. It is enough to recall grotesque festivities of the early celebration of the negotiations opening last year, and even decorating the ambassadors in some of the EU member states with this motivation!

“Get your houses in order before we can talk about any enlargement step!” was the prevailing message on the secondary topic of the Summit, given that the event’s main pillar was reigniting the dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo. This simple yet powerful message should serve as a hard wake up call for several actors to adopt a realistic approach to evaluating the progress made by aspiring countries in key areas relevant not only to their integration perspective but most importantly to their consolidation as democratic functional states.

Notwithstanding the pressure from their internal dynamics (in the case of France) and from the very close European parliament elections (in the case of both), the message of the European powerhouses Germany and France has strong doses of realism in it. These should serve as bitter but necessary pills to be ingested first and foremost by Albanian leaders in order to refocus their attention at home rather than serving ill-fitted solutions to the Serbia-Kosovo dialogue, in which by the way they seem to be neither invited nor welcomed. The Albanian majority in power should redirect all their attention at home, at the internal political crisis that is putting whatever little progress that might have been achieved with the reforms in serious jeopardy.

Albania as it stands today, in the midst of a serious political and social crisis, should better not invent justifications for its internal failures. Even more, so it should steer clear of bilateral disputes between independent states, especially now that the negotiation and mediation power is at an all-time low for both internal and regional reasons.

The realistic message should also ring true in the ears of European diplomats serving in the region, but particularly in Tirana. There seems to be a curious yet unhelpful switch of the attention of the diplomatic corps in Tirana towards the modus operandi of “travelogy”- experiencing, describing and promoting the panoramic, cultural, culinary and associated delights of place, focusing on the exotic. These messages come at the cost of ignoring or downplaying the real structural problems and most poignantly the acute crisis that is unfolding every day in Albania. To borrow a metaphor from Ivan Krastev, “a weak state in crisis is as big as an elephant”, but once you decide to shut your eyes you cannot see it, despite its size.

One more actor needs to be seriously engaged in this analytical reconsideration infused with realism. The previous experience of the report issued by the European Commission which recommended the unconditional opening of the accession negotiations and yet was not enough for the Council to give the green light did enough damage to the legitimacy, authority, and reputation of the Commission both in Brussels and in the region. Repeating this mistake again this year would definitely be a destructive second blow. The report must strike the correct balance between acknowledging tangible progress and highlighting deep systematic roadblocks if it is to be taken seriously this time.

Albanian society is pro-European and pro-western. The Albanian foreign policy has been mostly consistent with that of the western alliances. There is no political party or force in the country that roots for any other plan B. The keyframe conditions are set. The desire to start the serious path of negotiations is real and should be respected by all sides by fulfilling the rest with responsibility: by getting the house in order.