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Such initiatives to rehabilitate Vučić in the international arena and to give him diplomatic victories have not been lacking and I believe that there will continue to be...
The Open Balkans is not Serbia's first attempt to reform the Balkans. So, this new initiative was born from an old idea: Recovering the lost weight of the former Yugoslavia and strengthening its positions in the Balkans!
Such initiatives to rehabilitate Vučić in the international arena and to give him diplomatic victories have not been lacking and I believe that there will be in the future. It started with the Balkan Mini-Shengen where it was imposed by the European Union and the USA under the leadership of Trump that Kosovo also accept and sign.
Open Balkan is the new form of the old Minishengen where it gives Serbia the leading role in the Balkans.
Serbia has a strong economy and with the spaces that would be allowed in the Open Balkans, it would become the leader of economies and political influences in the Balkans.
Kosovo was always called to be a part, but with one condition: Not as an independent state, but as a province of Serbia, isolating and ignoring its independence.
The philosophy that inspired Vucic was the "Balkan of the Balkans": A form of organization that would rival the European Union. An idea that was also supported by North Macedonia, expressing that the time has come for an organization on its own since they do not have time to wait for the EU.
The most serious thing was the enthusiastic acceptance by official Tirana even though there were rejections from the opposition. No one asked the people!
This action of the government led to the creation of an abyss between official Tirana and official Pristina.
Serbia is also part of the Eurasian Union led by Russia and it is still unclear where this initiative led by Serbia itself would lead us.
After 5 months from the clear resolution of the European Parliament that defined the Berlin Process as the only path that the European Union supports, Rama declared the exit from the Open Balkans.
The Berlin process, already reactivated by the German chancellor, accepts the 6 Balkan countries, treating them equally, and gives Kosovo its place as an independent state.
Personally, I have rejected the Open Balkans for various reasons: Ambiguity in the process, lack of transparency in actions, economic weakening for our country, etc...
As an Albanian, I categorically refuse to sit at a table with a country that does not accept Kosovo's independence. No leader in a democratic state can come and go without asking his citizens about actions that concern us. I am not the Open Balkans with Serbia at the head.
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