FLASH
Shkruar nga Marko Caka
In the spring of 2003, the Southeast European summit was held in the Greek capital of Athens, led by the locals of Pasok's government, since they had the next 6-month Presidency of the EU.
However, on one of the days of the regional summit, in the cafe of the lobby of the Intercontinental hotel, the leaders created business meetings between them, and at one of the tables was that of Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano together with his Kosovo counterpart, the late Bajram Rexhepi.
Since these meetings were private and since they did not have an agenda and it was not even known when the schedule ended, therefore the accompanying staff of Nano were sitting at a table further away and talking for their own pleasure, because normally they should not be in the same environment where state leaders have meetings. I had agreed to sit next to this staff, simply to avoid any news that might come out of Nano's meeting with his counterparts knowing that the topics of developments within the region were very hot.
After the meeting ended and Nano got up, his staff immediately left the table, but left without paying the bill. The Greek waitress just saw them running after them with the bill in hand telling them who will pay the bill, and one of the staff laughing said, give that short man that he is the boss pointing his finger at their boss, Prime Minister Nano. While she, without knowing who it is, ran to the prime minister and said in English - sir, you have to pay for that table there, Nano just turned around, surprised that he did not expect what was happening to him, and addressed the group of his subordinates - Huh mor shkër.... you love Qylin here too, and then he arrogantly addressed you to the lady and said come to my room to the Prime Minister of Albania and she froze in place and didn't move for a minute because she didn't expect that he was involved in this incident a prime minister of a country, and it's a good thing that he didn't know Albanian to understand even the vocabulary he used a little earlier with his subordinates, because maybe he would have fainted.
Stunned as she was, since I knew Greek, I approached the waitress to calm her down and told her that this whole situation that was created was a joke by the staff towards their boss and she immediately replied - Wow, why was he the Albanian prime minister and his subordinates are thus mocked like reeds. No, this is not a joke, at least for so many years that I have been here, never in this environment, where leaders of different countries come and stay, has anything like this happened, because it is not a place for jokes, but it is very serious.
But I am very sorry that you Albanians have been left behind and I do not believe that with such a staff that the prime minister allows his subordinates to behave like this in a public environment, you will have development and prosperity. At first I thought I would calm her down, but her answer surprised me because I did not expect her to give me "an English shower" that you Albanians with this behavior will never become citizens of Europe. Her reaction was only for the behavior of the staff and it was better that she did not know Albanian to draw the conclusion to the brutal vocabulary of the Prime Minister of Albanians. However, we Albanians have been used to our prime ministers for years with the famous expression - "this state has this bylmet".
Without forgetting, that a few months later at the Thessaloniki summit, European Commissioner Romano Prodi and Nano would shake hands, promising us that Albania will be ready in 2014 to join the European family, which never happened, but rather the words came out prophetic of the Greek waitress - with this staff and this prime minister (Nanon) Albania will never be done.
Since then, 21 years have passed, the promising former prime minister disappeared once and for all to become a citizen of the capital of Europe, while the Albanians who blindly trusted him, as he left them, are still outside the doors of Europe because his governance brought the most ugly of oligarchic-clientelistic corruption with the motto let's steal and get rich and in the end protect each other. This has worked in all the governments that, however much they have destroyed Albania, but they never recognize the door of justice for the responsibilities of the corruption of their administration.
To this day, no one knows the exact location of the former clientelistic prime minister, but what is known is that after he sold the largest public asset to Austria's Raifaisen Bank, his family's longest trips and stays are in this country. expensive of Europe. If at one time, at the beginning of the transition, his advisor for many years, the late Gramoz Pashko, would lift us up with a white check, he will surely have it for the future prime ministers and for the one who left for good. that after he "milked" Albania well with the favors given to him by the dark world of Albanian politics, that alone justifies the blank check of his and his family's unlimited luxury expenses.
That if it were for his pension and savings from his salary over the years, we would probably see the former prime minister only going around the lake with former president Alfred Moisiu or at some national team match with Duke's invitations, but never for travel tickets or for stays in the society of the Vienna aristocracy of the world capital of music. However, only a vetting of politicians and a deep investigation of SPAK can bring to the surface what the dark world of Albanian politics has stolen and hidden from us for years.
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