Europe's Evil Ethan: “We have become like Albania”!

Jan Boehmman is not a comedian of those you see in Albania. Satira has often put the known German in awkward situations, especially when making fun of Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan. But in early April of this year, when he received the “Roy” prize in Austria, he spoke of something that remained a mystery to the people until May 17th.

“Texas you're enjoying this galaxy, drinking soft wine and eating small sandwiches, I'm busy filling up cocaine with some of my Freedom Party friends, in a villa of Russian oligarchs in Ibiza, negotiating how to get under control of the newspaper Krone Zeitung to influence opinion in Austria”, he said.

Last Friday, a scandal shocked Austria. Two liberal German newspapers published a video in which Austrian vice-cancellary Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of the Freedom Party, did exactly what the comedian warned: under the influence of beverages, negotiated with “the loss of a Russian oligarch for the possibility of the rich taking control of the largest Austrian newspaper, “Kron”, to further advance the agenda of the far-right. In return, she would win good contracts from the Austrian government.

The meeting has been held ahead of the 2017 parliamentary elections, but the video is now published. Even though German media news media that published the video "I mean it has nothing to do with the expected European elections," it seems the goal was exactly that: to hit the right extreme at the right moment. No wonder the video came to light when extreme right politicians launched their project for an axis of populists with Italian Salvin, French Le Pen and Austrian Strache. The sting, which was given to the deputy kancelar, already ousted from the government and practically Austrian politics, was very important.

There remains a mystery about who of “played the” video that would shake Austrian politics and the extreme right in Europe. So far everything seems very well orchestrated by a left hand, meant to show the true face of the populist right. An organisation of German artists is said to have hands in this story. Others go further when they say the German secret service was involved. However, conspiracy theories are thoroughly exhilarated when they see the hand of Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, after that story. He decided to rule with the Freedom Party a deep-rooted neo-Nazi movement in Austria's politics by promising the Europeans that the best way to keep “bishan” of the right is to govern with it. Kurz promised he would soften “bisk”, but she just acted as she always knows how to do until we came to the point where 32-year-old Kurz reacted in anger to them: “is enough”, he said at a press conference. For many analysts, Kurz has his own guilt dose for the situation. The German magazine “Der Spiegel” says Austria already looks like a republic of bananas. Others, like the newspaper “wild”, see an opportunity for Kurz to return as Chancellor, now without the burden of the neonists on his back, as his rising star will not stop.

Touched by labels <x0 Republic bananas”, Austrians have rushed to publish a comparison saying that in Albania, a video scandal published several years ago, not only did a politician like Ilir Meta stop his career, but he managed to become president.

“Here we are, we've become like Albania”, comments someone in the script posted by “The Presse”.

This is no longer a banana republic, this is no longer Albania. We've become a shameful republic”, writes portal editor “Austria”, Wolfgang Feller.

But as Albania continues to remain <x0etalon” of evil in Europe, numerous Albanians in social networks are sick of comparisons and want to see Austria's scandal as an example to be taken by top Albanian politicians when it comes to responding to video regimes.

What scenarios will follow in Austrian politics are unknown, but the fact is that Albanians can learn some lessons from this situation. First, to take care when they choose allies to discuss some topics that are sensitive to Albanians. It really seems excessive speculation that Austria, which was among the few countries that listed the pro-ide of Kosovo's division, does not like Albanians. But the fact is that the Austrian political environment had become so acid recently that Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama would have disgusted him not only as a politician but also as an artist. The traces of the recent scandal show how strong Russian ties are when it comes to political extremes. Strache was relaxed in the face of the Russian oligarch <x0mbare”, since he knew that the billionaire in question is a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Not only that, but the biggest problem with the Freedom Party was their Interior Minister, Herbert Kickl. Several European countries cut off co-operation with intelligence services in Austria for fear that Kickl's ties with Russia are deep.

The second, the case in question showed that populism has “and is as thin as ideology itself. In essence, the populism, which we are seeing even in Albanian politics, from the moment Prime Minister Edi Rama takes no responsibility from seeing evil in others alone, is a simple ideology: we are good people, all others are bad. However, the case in question and many others show that populists are not just different from others, but there are “wetwater creatures<x3 and dangerous, as Bloomberg labels them.

Third, the scandal in question helps us to expand our view more when it comes to the situation in Europe, which is presented by the Albanian government as the main cause of Albania's integration has stalled. The history of the Freedom Party and its scandals dates back to the 1960 ' s. Europe has constantly known such situations, and what we are now experiencing is neither the first nor the worst, as government officials are telling us. A decade ago, while writing in the newspaper “Bild” in an open historical letter, former German cacerre Helm Kohl stressed that the route of united Europe has always been very difficult. Especially in 2008, the Union recognized times of crisis that may once come once a century. Can you imagine for a moment if Edi Rama was prime minister during this time what he could have invented?

Recently and perhaps most importantly, Albanians must learn that when it comes to a government assessment, scandals stand at the top of the judicial hierarchy. A scandal is enough to bring down a government. With this set, this government would have collapsed countless times. Word falls, if the interior minister of a foreign government was charged with such links to organised crime (only Saimir Tahiri says the charges are equal to Aldo Bares), that government and that prime minister would have been wasted in history. If surveillances like these came out of the files 339 or 184, that prime minister would have already been forgotten.

And there is a good reason why when scandals arise, governments fall. It's not just because they're out. But because trying to protect a scandal, you have to distort all democracy, putting the system under control. First you have to put the media under control to show that the scandal is not what it looks like. Then you must bring justice under control to show that no crime has been consumed. Then you must seize Parliament to prevent the legislature from performing its control and balance functions on the executive. Then you must massacre the opposition so that it is no longer the only voice protecting democracy. Then you have to digest the intellectuals and the elite so they don't see the tracks or the wolf. Then you have to line up all the people in the party not to allow anti-reference. And in the end, after you've done all this, you've caused a crisis like this one where all the deformities of democracy just come and multiply. That's why scandals are at the top of the assessment of a government: To stop the course of the domineering of democracy that leads to what we are now. Evil must be cutting off his head from the start. Now it's just very, very late. /Mapo/