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"Athens fell into her own trap!"/ Greek analysts: Mitsotakis overdid Beleri

2024-03-13 19:48:18Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
"Athens fell into her own trap!"/ Greek analysts: Mitsotakis overdid
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Fredi Beleri's two-year prison sentence has dimmed the comments in Greece about what is now known as the "Beleri case".

However, discussions continue in Greek diplomatic circles about the policy that Athens should follow in the future with Albania.

According to analysts of political issues in Greece, Athens has three alternatives:

The first vetoes Tirana's European progress, the second imposes bilateral sanctions and the third waits until the appeal decision.

Greece's future policy with Albania, after the SPAK decision, puts it in front of these possible alternatives with extraordinary diplomatic and political costs.

The sentence to Fredi Beleri was a decision that Athens expected, regardless of the political "pressures" that it exerted with or without tact.

The first alternative is more or less known and is related to Albania's membership perspective in the European Union. We recall that on November 29, Athens in its written statement, which was filed in the EU, stated that "Greece is not in a position to agree on the next stages of the membership procedure, in case Albania does not respect Beleri's assumption of office as mayor, a regular trial, including respecting the presumption of innocence".

According to diplomatic sources quoted in the "Kathimerini" newspaper, the second alternative for Athens, the imposition of bilateral sanctions, is even more difficult.

According to prof. Angelos Syrigos, "most of the experienced Greek diplomats, express the view that Edi Rama seems to believe that the good contacts he has in Washington, Brussels and other Western capitals provide him with an advantage over Greece." Therefore, the only thing that remains is the maintenance of a tough attitude on the part of Athens, for reasons of prestige, even without real benefits".

According to the majority of well-known analysts (Papachelas, Ligeros, Nedhos, Pappas, Tsiarras, etc.), Athens should follow the third alternative, that is, "waiting for the second-instance trial and the corresponding decision", which they all predict will to reconfirm the decision of the first instance.

Greece can use this to gain precious time, to calm the Greek public opinion, to test the Albanian side and to plan the future policy.

Nikos Kotzias, former Minister of Foreign Affairs:

"Athens must weigh with great care the measures it will take after the decision to sentence Beleri, in order that the balance does not tilt towards the negative consequences for Greece's foreign policy and, above all, not to turn it into a primary issue national Greek in relations with Albania".

According to the general statement of the diplomats, the consequences of the case in question are very serious for Athens, not only for the image of Greece as the oldest and most powerful NATO country in the Western Balkans.

Analysts in the neighboring country conclude that with the blocking actions against Albania, Athens will face pressure from the EU and NATO, for geostrategic and geopolitical reasons.

The vast majority of analysts in Greece agree that Edi Rama is the prime minister of the most anti-Russian country in the Western Balkans, a region considered extremely sensitive by NATO.

The comments of the Greek analysts come to the conclusion that Athens "fell into the trap it had set itself", since the first reactions to the Beleri case were exaggerated and reminded of Shakespeare's comedy "Much Ado About Nothing"./TCH


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