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"The Albanian's home belongs to God and to his friend." But when will it be the Albanian's?

Politiko 2025-05-16 22:05:09

"The Albanian's home belongs to God and to his friend." But when

After the Summit held in Tirana, Prime Minister Edi Rama invited European leaders for lunch, citing an expression from the Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini, "the home of the Albanian is that of God and of the friend."

Although this expression carries an emotional weight of national pride, as it expresses the Albanian custom of hospitality and respect towards friends and strangers, it is also bittersweet when we remember that the only ones who seem not to belong to Albania are the owners of the house themselves.

Thus, the natural question arises: How welcome can you feel in a home where even the owners themselves don't feel welcome?

The wonderful Albania, the hidden gem of tourists and strategic investors, of the refugee camps that Europe is piling up on our shores, is not turning out to be such for hundreds of thousands of Albanians who see their only hope in leaving home. How welcoming would this home seem to European leaders if they knew that the owners of the house cannot make ends meet, do not have potable water in their taps, have higher taxes than many Western countries compared to the salaries they receive, have a health system that is better not to get sick and an education system from which only the petals of patronage bloom?

This canonical expression comes bitter and weak from the mouth of a hypocritical prime minister who kneels before the greats of Europe, while kicking his own people whom he contemptuously calls idiots, idiots, autistics, idiots and people with tails. Which of these leaders at the Summit could welcome Albania as an aspiring country at the table of the great European family, if he knew the reality of the May 11 electoral elections, where Albanians were robbed for the umpteenth time of the right to a free and fair vote and were loaded onto the Bulgarian train with a fake European passport?

Let one of the translators explain to the representatives of Europe the context of this expression of our Kanun, that "the house of the Albanian belongs to God and to his friend" when it belongs to the Albanian, not when he is a tenant in his own house and can be thrown out when the owner wants to build a complex of towers.

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