
The allegory with which Prime Minister Edi Rama provokes the smiles of Western friends for the delay of Albania's integration into the European Union is well known. The story, says Rama, resembles a wedding that we have been waiting for years. The bride is ready, but the bridegroom does not come. They still have doubts whether to go or not.
But while signals are coming from the bride and groom that they are ready for the wedding, Rama has done something similar to that bride, who turns her head back for the last time, before the wedding engagements begin.
Thus, even though he declared the "Open Balkans" closed and completed, Edi Rama has become part of it through a voice and visual greeting at the wine fair that takes place in Belgrade.
As proof of this are the videos and photos that were taken from the wine fair in Belgrade that were distributed on social networks. Because the press office of the prime minister in Tirana has not distributed any announcement about Rama's message.
Rama kept the message he sent to Vucic at the wine fair a secret. No announcement, no news, no sign of this show in Belgrade.
But it is no secret that his Slavic friends from Belgrade, Skopje and Podgorica do not like the tutelage imposed on them by the European Union. Not for nothing, on the day when the Berlin Process convened in Tirana, Vucic flew to China to meet the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
Even at the "Vision of Open Balkan Wines" fair, the president of Serbia issued several messages against the imposition of the European Union on the countries of the Balkans.
"They are the ones who bring us plans that we have to accept, because we are not good, and then pull our hair out when we don't accept them. They think that they are gods, that we should listen to what they say with the agreements", said Vucic, who praised a kind of "freedom-loving spirit of all the peoples of the Balkans", which, according to Vucic, does not accept to submit easily.
Jakov Milatovic of Montenegro, according to whom "the Balkans is more beautiful when it is open", and Dimitar Kovacevski of North Macedonia joined the song of Vucic, who has just entered the campaign for the early elections.
The three sat down at a bar late in the evening and shared the footage singing along with wine glasses in hand.
In fact, Milanovic and Kovačevksi kept the song. Both flushed with wine, they sang Haris Dzinovic's verses loudly in the bar.
Vucic appeared more restrained. At the wine-singing table, he was mere material for jokes and memes.
"At least we know that there is no amount of alcohol to bring him a particle of spontaneity", wrote a commentator on social networks. "It looks like a child who spent his whole life "school-home-school" and at the age of 25 he went out to the bar for the first time", added another.
On Thursday night, Vucic didn't overdo it with a single sip. But he understands that on the right side, where the riosh Jakov Milatović is sitting, a year ago Edi Rama was standing. The former ally is "marrying" the European Union and cannot give them more than a secret greeting.
So Vucic had nothing to celebrate with Zinovic's song, whose verses sang in the background of lost love:
"Give us wine, give us bread
Bring the gypsies to the table
Let them play, let me get sick
If her eyes don't love me anymore"./LAPSI
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