Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama accused Bulgaria of conducting a “horrible, disgusting and anti-European coverage” in opposition to North Macedonia, Maxfax company reported.
Rama took half in a discussion board in Tirana organized by the Balkan Middle for Constructive Insurance policies “Resolution”, in cooperation with the Belgrade Middle for Safety Insurance policies and the Open Society and Rockefeller Foundations.
Vesela Cherneva, advisor to former Prime Minister Kiril Petkov and deputy director of the European Council for Overseas Coverage, participated within the occasion from the Bulgarian facet, reviews BGNES.
“Why are you blocking North Macedonia? Present how robust you might be at residence!” Rama stated, including that the blockade insurance policies have been “horrible, disgusting and anti-European”.
“What do you need to obtain with the blockade of North Macedonia? What do you suppose you’ll obtain? To refuse help within the EU, that is the one factor you are able to do!” declared the Albanian Prime Minister.
“The drop in help for the EU is the results of precisely that! Nationalism hijacks the EU, the Union turns into a sufferer of the nationalistic urges of the international locations. The answer is easy – two-sided issues shouldn’t be used for deadlocks. If a rustic needs to fake {that a} bilateral situation is European, there needs to be at the least yet another nation to help it.
You’ll be able to’t have 26 international locations saying it is a bilateral situation and only one claiming it is pan-European and all of the sudden it turns into pan-European. As a substitute of Bulgaria declaring: “OK, we have now an issue with North Macedonia, however let’s put it apart and proceed the negotiations and the transformation of the states”, she boycotted.
Why are you blocking the negotiations themselves? Why are you blocking the reforms? Insanity! Disgusting!” Rama additional stated.
The Albanian Prime Minister in contrast the relations between Bulgaria and North Macedonia to the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire.
“The identical factor occurred with Constantinople. Whereas the Greeks have been debating whether or not angels had intercourse, the Sultan conquered them,” he stated.
Edi Rama noticed that it’s harmful when the previous turns into extra influential than the longer term:
“It’s a must to have a look at the previous with the eyes of the longer term, not the opposite approach round. Our issues within the area began after we acquired states. There was once folks right here who lived collectively no matter their variations, did enterprise collectively, married and divorced…
As quickly as we created international locations, the issues began. Now we’re coping with who’s Alexander’s mom and father, who is that this, who’s that… what nonsense!
Do you suppose that the typical Greek taxi driver at present is actually an impressive successor to Plato? I don’t suppose so. That is critical nonsense and we’re all coping with it to the extent that our future is at stake,” Rama opined.
Mailinda Bregu, Secretary Normal of the Regional Cooperation Council and Daniela Schwarzer, member of the French-German Group on EU Reforms, additionally spoke on the discussion board. The moderator of the occasion was the president of “Resolution” and former Macedonian international minister Nikola Dimitrov.
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