2 hours agoBalkan core in Athens
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)It says: Mero Base, the last point of the Balkan countries' joint declaration called at a informal meeting in Athens on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Thessaloniki Summit, requires a new EU stance on the European perspective of the Balkans. But if you look at the problem of this meeting, you see that not [...]
It says: Merro Base
The latest point of the Balkan countries' joint declaration, called at a informal meeting in Athens on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Thessaloniki Summit, requires a new EU stance on the European perspective of the Balkans.
But if I look at the problem of this meeting, it sees that not only Balkan countries, but their host Greece, behaves like a Balkan country in relation to the region.
The only news this meeting produced was Albania's exclusion from the host of the meeting. The expulsion, which relates to a conflict having the mayor-elect of Himara with Albanian justice, was raised by official Greece to the political and state level, excluding Albania from this meeting.
That fact would suffice for the first - minute European spirit of meeting. The values and standards of a European country do not rule out prime ministers from the meeting for nearly personal problems. He could invite Eddie Rama and face the problem he thinks is the Beler case. But when you expel him, of course you act like a little Balkan.
Under this spirit of Balkan rivals and neighbouring problems, then the entire meeting took place.
The Serbian president promises weapons to the Ukrainian president in order not to recognise Kosovo, while Kosovo's prime minister urges Greece and Ukraine to recognise Kosovo, otherwise they will have business with it.
Macedonia's and Montenegro's prime minister complains to Vuciqi that Serbia's defence minister, why they have recognised Kosovo, and he apologises to them, and thus has continued the entire meeting.
Croatia's president then sharply criticises Athens for the Beler affair, and the quarrel continues.
So in a meeting where the host has painted the European meeting table “” as a Balkan, making news of Albania's exclusion, of course cannot expect the entire spirit of other talks to be European.
And in fact this is the true picture of the Balkans, even of single Balkan Europeans, who are more Balkan than Europeans when it comes to reports with neighbours.
