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European passport, Balkan standards!

Politiko 2025-03-29 17:45:21

European passport, Balkan standards!

By Lutfi Dervishi

In a European country, when you don't keep your word, you apologize.
When you're caught off guard, you take responsibility, you don't jump to the next, bigger, more beautiful, more unrealizable promise.
The European passport requires a separation of powers,
not a political gravity, where everything revolves around one thing.
It requires free competition, not capitalism named PPP and tenders without competition.
It requires a system where the most capable wins, not the one who is closest.
The European passport is not given for spectacular inspections, where the prime minister and ministers line up on the construction site like in the old documentaries of the Kinostudio "New Albania".
It requires that the 900 noisy inspections of the prime minister and ministers be carried out quietly by the AKU and the inspectorates that are tasked with inspection.
Europe requires free and fair elections, where parties compete with each other, and not the administration with the opposition.
The European passport is for countries that recycle waste, not promises.
For countries where incinerators burn garbage, not public funds and legal evidence.
But more than that, the European passport requires standards.
It requires schools that educate, not that issue diplomas.
Salaries to live with dignity.
Pensions that keep you alive, not that lead you into debt for medicines.
Justice that is given while you are alive, not when you have passed away.
Property that is protected by law, not that is robbed by court decision.
Europe is an area of ​​security, freedom and justice.
We are only close in one aspect: in geographical position!
Yes, the European passport requires a lot.
More than the signature of a prime minister, more than a ceremony with a blue flag as a background.
Believing that a piece of paper with stars can replace standards that we have never built is like confusing a barcode with dignity.
Because in Albania, it is not a problem to become European on paper and in promises, the problem is to behave like a European in everyday life.
And the most difficult of all:
To govern like a European.
The passport makes a difference, but the mind, reality and mentality even more.
When you hear about the European passport, remember that:
We do not lack "papers". We lack Europe in everyday life.
Because Europe is not a refuge, it is a standard.
And that standard is not stamped, but built.
Europe is here. We are not there.
And to be built, it does not require miracles, magic, fantasy.
It is enough to learn and instill as a "vice", just one word:
Good governance.
Then we will not need the EU passport.
The identity card will suffice.

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