Who is behind Albania's non-admission to the Council of Europe?
“29 June could also be the day of a great plebiscite for the country's image in Europe.” (Mr. Pjetër Arbnori in "Progressio '95")
Is it the continuation of the undertaking understood by the Road of the World, which undertaking from the very first in June of the PSD? God of the self-perceptions of this time, but this political force would certainly have had an inexplicable rapprochement with it. In the way the path was presented in the summer, this main demarcation that should characterize the PSD, the force no smaller in government, nor smaller in number, in relation to the opposition forces, was conceived and launched as a maneuver of a light politics and equally of left-wing political embitterment. Who demanded it? Where was it demanded? and where has it abandoned it? For in these questions the key to solving the political situation in Albania may be found.
Now, the state that has been most mentioned in foreign media in connection with the Council of Europe is Albania. Meanwhile, the Council of Europe is expected to decide today whether or not to admit Albania. Against this background, we are addressing this issue from two main angles: first, the relationship with the opposition forces and especially the PSD; second, the way of creating an unsuitable climate in European opinion.
As long as the most active part of the opposition, led by radical elements, continues to treat every step of the Albanian state as an arbitrary and anti-democratic act, as long as endless and baseless denunciations are sent to foreign forums, then it is not hard to understand why a distorted picture of Albanian reality is created. In this sense, those who speak most about Europe are in fact those who are doing most to serve Albania's isolation.
It is no coincidence that in these days dramatic tones have increased, along with accusations of a lack of standards, violations of rights, and an institutional crisis. Some of these debates are normal in a pluralist country, but another part clearly seems to have been fed intentionally in order to send a negative message to European centers. And precisely at the moment when the country needs support, not sabotage.
If admission to the Council of Europe is a national interest, then every political force must place this interest above the tactics of the day. If not, then the question arises: who benefits from Albania's non-admission? Certainly not the citizens, not the country, not democracy. Only the mentality that sees Albania as a hostage to narrow party calculations benefits.
Therefore the title's question remains open: who is behind Albania's non-admission to the Council of Europe? The answer must be sought where the word Europe is used as a slogan, but action goes in the opposite direction.