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2026-10-18 20:15:40Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Daniel Serwer, professor of foreign policy at the Johns Hopkins American Institute, in an interview with Top Channel journalist Muhamed Veliu, speaks out against the violence displayed during 6 days of protests in Tirana.

"Violence is unacceptable in democratic societies such as Albania. Protests are acceptable because people are upset about many things, from student issues to construction issues. Violence is discrediting this protest."  

"I was in Albania in 1997 after the collapse of the pyramid schemes and I saw what destabilization violent protests can bring. Yesterday we had peaceful protests here all over America. Any kind of change must come through the vote in peaceful, non-violent ways," he says.

Serwer, who has also served as a diplomat for the US Department of State at the US Embassy in Rome, was asked whether Sali Berisha's call for civil disobedience could further escalate the situation, and gave this answer:

"It may escalate the situation but I want to emphasize that civil disobedience means non-violence. Civil disobedience means passive resistance in the face of security forces when they tell you to move from where you are, to another place and they come and arrest you and you don't start fighting them. That's how I see civil disobedience. I don't know how Sali Berisha understood civil disobedience in Albania. 

"It is a very bad idea for Albania to come to the conclusion that through violence they will be able to remove Prime Minister Edi Rama. Violence does not bring votes. I have known Sali Berisha for many years. Saliu and I are old to stand on top of a mountain. It is time for new leadership. This is a general problem in the Balkans. Leaders tend to stay in power for long and Saliu is not alone in this."   

Muhamed Veliu: Do you think that "foreign hands" are behind this violence during the protests, as Prime Minister Edi Rama has claimed?

"I'm not there and to tell you the truth it's difficult to give an answer to this. Clearly the US and Europe do not want to see violence in Albania, a country that is on the path to EU membership, and this will make that process even more difficult."

Regarding the arrival of the new American ambassador to Tirana, Erick Wendt, Professor Serwer said:

"What I want Americans to do in Albania, a NATO ally, is to continue towards the European path, but the problem is that Americans do not support the EU, which we see in the positions of the US State Department regarding the Western Balkans."

This, says Daniel Serwer, is unfortunate since America's ongoing goal has been the integration of the Balkans into the EU.


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