The Albanian Prime Minister continues to play the role of European tribune, while Montenegro manages to do its homework: Brussels, irritated by propaganda, has given the green light to Podgorica, leaving Tirana in the shadow of a self-inflicted defeat.
The signal that Brussels sent to Podgorica in recent days is not just good news for Montenegro; it is a historic document for the entire region.
The formation of the first working group to draft the accession agreement in seventeen years, accompanied by the direct statement of the Commissioner for Enlargement that "there is no clearer signal", places Montenegro on the threshold of the great European gate.
While Montenegrin Prime Minister Milojko Spajic leads a stubborn, tireless, daily process of reforms, often unattractive to the public, but vital to Brussels pressures; official Tirana continues to suffer from another chronic disease: the big words, light jokes and international arrogance of "global leader" Edi Rama.
It is impossible not to note the overwhelming contrast.
Podgorica has not filled the squares with European flags for every visit by a Western official. It has not produced theatrical monologues against Brussels to then consume them at domestic political tables. It has done the daily, technical, tedious work; every negotiating chapter closed, every reform in justice and administration documented in thousands of pages.
On the contrary, Edi Rama's Albania knows only empty propaganda: big headlines, epic promises, and then; silence.
His constant jabs against "European moralism", his jabs at "Brussels delays", and his oscillations between a Europe that is desired and a Europe that is insulted with the elegance of a frustrated prime minister, have turned Tirana into the capital of disappointment in the enlargement process.
Diplomacy does not forgive futility. And what is happening now is a bitter lesson for Albania: Montenegro, without fuss and without podiums, has managed to get closer to the EU than any other in the region, while Albania, wrapped in idiotic rhetoric and endless photos at summits, is sliding further and further into the abyss.
The impression is created that Rama sees the integration process not as an institutional commitment, but as a stage for his personal show; and Europeans should applaud his jokes without salt and forgive his infidelities. But Brussels is not the National Theater. Brussels sends signals to those who work, not to those who only talk and do not listen.
The failure that belongs to the Albanian Prime Minister does not come articulated by a political opponent, but by the cold reality: Montenegro, small, tired and bowed down, is now ahead of Albania. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister who calls himself a "European strategist" has been overthrown.
With each new anti-European rant, he provides arguments to internal EU skeptics that Albania is not yet mature; not because of its population, but because of its leadership model. Because in European diplomacy, arrogance is not forgiven.
We are not even as good as Montenegro!
And this is no longer a prediction; it is the diagnosis of a failure written in capital letters in Brussels./ Pamphlet
Per ne ka me shume lufte dhe interesa. Kemi me shume armiq se Mali zi. Kësaj thone te hyje me pare vajza se nena.
Ja edhe ti i gjete armiqte e jashtem. Ata na e kane fajin Bravo! ????????????
Po moj shoqe po, ik ha sufllaqe
Tamam! Pike!
Cdo popull meriton qeNverine qe ka. Ne meritojme KARAXHOZIN-FODULL Ed Ramafia. Shet PORDHE e FRYHET si gjeli n'maje t'plehut. Dhe ne fakt asht vete PLEHER.
Mire e ke por ky gjeli ne maje te plehut po i pallon te gjitha pulat e fshatit e gjelat e tjere vetem lehin se u ka ikur zeri i te kenduarit ne mnjes.