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Interview with the head of the European Commission’s Anti-Smuggling Mission P. 8

By Ramadan SOKOLI The political atmosphere has now turned into a “puppet theater,” where the directors pulling the puppets’ strings simply cannot understand that this comic game is causing suffering to the Albanian nation. The flurries of warnings about destabilization resemble posters announcing the performance of tragedies, whose cost is always paid by the Albanian nation and by the delayed prospects of our people, who have long deserved a better fate. The dense torrents of political storms have created a great pool in the present atmosphere, putting our aspirations and future at serious risk. The forces of darkness, which at all times oppose progress and light, seem to have found a suitable period in which to advance their personal interests, amidst the flattering stains of the night that feel happy in their gloomy flight. But naturally this must not be allowed to continue for long, because the negative phenomenon has reached its end and, after this, rebirth is expected. According to the laws of physics, strong collisions of lightning always give birth to light and brilliance. Always light and brilliance. Thus the calculations of these wicked forces to surround us with darkness can no longer succeed, because in the meantime the diamond has become conscious of returning to the Enlightenment values of our Renaissance figures, who never accepted being trampled underfoot. The idea of Albanian intellectuals concerns the understanding of the nation’s moral evil, but it is also a clear signal that our society no longer accepts regressive experiments. Our country still has an arsenal of intellectuals, who will know how to find the swift paths to light and the renewal of values. Thus the “puppet theater” and those who operate behind it, playing with national interests, will one day answer for choosing the alphabet of the evil of the [?]—but it is now clear that the time has come for the curtain to fall on the final act, because Albania has issued a call to arms to its finest sons to secure the fate they deserve. “You once were a mighty voice/ the men of the earth called you mother,” says Mjeda. And we say that Albania is still the beauty of the earth, but the departure of the era of darkness will reveal her charms in all their power.

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