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Sovereignty as a fig leaf
2026-03-14 22:27:32 / IDE
At the conference the day before, Prime Minister Edi Rama, among other things, admitted that there had been a discussion with international representations in Tirana regarding the Balluku issue, while taking care to add that in the position he holds, he represents Albania and relations with partners must be on the same level. “One of the indisputable norms of this representation is to look my partners in the eye and have them look me in the eye, on the same level. I would never think of looking down on anyone or allowing anyone to look down on me,” Rama said explicitly.
In fact, viewed from a formal perspective, if you hadn't lived in this country and if you had no information about what happens daily in Albania, this statement would be very normal.
However, when you see it within the context of the development of daily politics, when you follow politics in its daily dynamics and when you know what this same prime minister declared just a short while ago, for example, when he expressed himself in relation to the fact that he would vote for anything that the internationals would demand or that he would not do anything regarding the justice system that was not in line with their suggestions, then you understand that we are not in a normal and usual situation.
Why we are not facing such a situation is already more than clear.
However, this incoherence of politicians in Albania, where parties loyal to internationals turn into sovereignists in the evening and when in the morning the sovereignists turn into their followers, is a hypocrisy that must end in this country.
The problem in this case is not sovereignty, but its use as a fig leaf whenever the politics of the day in this country is confronted with justice or criticism from the European Union representations in Albania.
And if we return to Rama's statement in his press conference, he took care to ensure that the vote in the Assembly for the Socialist Party would not be an obstacle or blocking factor for Albania's journey towards the EU. I hope so, but Rama's statement is not credible, because it remains to be seen how the EU institutions will react to this issue in the future.
But what is certain is that under no circumstances is it worth the burden of sacrificing European integration for specific names of politicians, whoever they may be, while part-time sovereignty is an effort that other politicians in this country have tried before and turned into a laughing stock.
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