"The Balkans is madness", Rama: Albanians think that Darwin's evolution started with us, while the Greeks...

2022-07-03 21:17:11Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
"The Balkans is madness", Rama: Albanians think that Darwin's
Rama from Amsterdam

Prime Minister Edi Rama spoke from Amsterdam about the latest failure of Albania and North Macedonia to open membership negotiations with the European Union.

As he was asked about the obstacles that cause this impasse, Rama said that the Balkans is a strange place and it is crazy if you are going to introduce the internal debates of the region into the integration policy.

RAME'S WORD:

Don't try to figure it all out because I'll make life more complicated than it needs to be. We are the Balkans and we come with some problems. We want to be part of the EU and then if countries like Bulgaria in this case use their EU membership and veto to discuss the story at a political level it is even more complicated. And I think every time history is taken over by politicians to solve, the result is that the story becomes more complicated than it was before they took over. This is all a shame, related to the warped spirit of expansion. Bulgaria is not the issue, it is the EU, the way it works is outdated. It must be changed. It is outdated. A country taking two other countries hostage is wrong.

But if you enter the Balkans, it's crazy, because if you go there and ask the Albanians, we think we came with monkeys. We think Darwin's evolution started with us. The Greeks think Holland is an old village of Ancient Greece, they even think they came before the monkeys.

Yes, the Serbs. If you ask us, Napoleon was Albanian, his family went to Corsica. These are things that should not be discussed at the European level. But it is what it is as Donald Trump would say. The most incomprehensible thing beyond this is that neither we nor North Macedonia are knocking on the door of the EU to become a member. If we became a member today, I would understand.

We just want to start the talks. It is strange that you are a candidate for marriage, but the other party says one day you can marry me, but how can you marry when the other party does not speak. So we are a candidate without speaking, but we want to speak. I know how long these talks and problems will last for years, but this is hostage taking for internal elections.

I don't know, but how many times there are internal problems, they talk about a gun here, a mafia there, an Albanian here, some guys who grow marijuana in the southern part of Albania, or Rotterdam. So it is an internal process of keeping away. It's not about what we do anymore. That the EU has a European Commission that is paid by EU funds, the biggest bureaucratic machine in the whole world, that supervises 24 hours every country, and then produces reports on the candidate countries to present to the member countries and later say what must be done.

I think that the negotiations should have been opened for many years, maybe next year, but we will not lose sleep over this. We kept organizing weddings, big weddings with music. We were waiting for the bride to come from Brussels, but 1 year 2 years 3 years she never came.

If he will come to marry us without music and immediately in bed and have children, let him come. I say it with humor, but imagine yourself when you want to get married seriously, but she never shows up.


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