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Shkruar nga Armand Shkullaku
Precisely the conception of foreign policy as a Big Brother, as a showbiz show, without content, without weight and without the necessary knowledge to handle delicate topics, has reduced Edi Rama's attempts to mere news for his enthusiasts in Tirana. As for the main actors, they have not managed to leave any trace.
The recent crisis in Kosovo and the role that Edi Rama is trying to assign to himself in its solution are increasingly highlighting the gap between the core and the surface of the Albanian prime minister. He may be capable of making headlines, but so far he has not registered any results in the global arena where he is aiming to play.
If in Tirana the propaganda directed by his spy doctors presents the Albanian prime minister as a heavy weight figure on the international stage, the projected events, with him as the protagonist, are archived one after the other. Edi Rama, the negotiator of the crisis in Belarus, the man who would reconcile Turkey and Greece on the dispute over the islands in the Aegean, the leader who would achieve the centuries-old Albanian-Serbian reconciliation like the Germans and the French after the Second World War, the leader who envies Europe and dreams of NATO , the politician who released the policemen imprisoned in Serbia and who has now offered the genius idea of locking Kurti and Vučić in a room from which they will not come out without reaching an agreement.
Precisely the conception of foreign policy as a Big Brother, as a showbiz show, without content, without weight and without the necessary knowledge to handle delicate topics, has reduced Edi Rama's attempts to mere news for his enthusiasts in Tirana. As for the main actors, they have not managed to leave any trace.
In the case of the proposal for the "locking" of Kurti and Vucic, which was followed with a smile by the real negotiators of the crisis in Kosovo, it is clear that Rama's tendency to make a pop-news and the lack of serious knowledge about what happened and happens between those two places. The causes of the crisis are not simply related to the will of the two leaders or their strategy to gain points in domestic opinion. The crisis stems from Serbia's ignorance of a new political and state reality that is Kosovo and, in a quarter of a century, even other leaders of these two countries have not managed to find a compromise, despite the efforts of the US and the EU. To say that this will be resolved by looking to the future and sitting at the negotiating table is like saying nothing.
Edi Rama also proposed a text for the association of municipalities with a Serbian majority, which the two countries involved in the crisis did not even consider. Because they are not in conflict because they cannot find experts to draft a draft, but because they do not agree on what this draft should look like. Even this move was a three-day news for Rama's paid enthusiasts and remained so.
Then he continued with threats that he would freeze the Open Balkans and relations with Serbia, but even this was not taken seriously by Belgrade, which hesitated to make even a reaction. Later, the scenario was elaborated that Edi Rama was behind the release of the three policemen, but Vucic never mentioned any of his roles and Prime Minister Orban came out publicly as the man who influenced the Serbian president. Now it's the turn of the idea of the international conference with the lock as in Kurti and Vucic's Big Brother. In addition to the same headlines in the controlled media of Tirana, this proposal is also popular.
Edi Rama's initiatives do not and cannot succeed as long as they are woven under the seductive influence of the protagonist and with the laziness that gives you the ease of caressing things only on the surface. Taking on such challenges is not like attracting attention by wearing sneakers at an international summit or following the prime minister of Italy. They require a lot of work and serious commitment. To know the situation, to communicate deeply with the parties, to be able to do diplomacy even outside the cameras (something that Edi Rama does not even think about), to ask for support without personal interest from world leaders and political lobbies, to endure acting even in the shadows resisting the temptation of the stage with lights. To sacrifice personal ego to achieve something greater.
Edi Rama nuk e njeh këtë lloj politike. Jo thjesht nga mania për protagonizëm, por dhe nga paaftësia apo përtacia për t’u hyrë gjërave në thelbin e tyre. I mësuar me suksesin e formës dhe propagandës në Shqipëri, atij i duket tmerrësisht e mundimshme t’i hyjë një pune të vërtetë dhe aq më keq akoma nëse prozhektorët nuk bien mbi të. E nëse me këtë mënyrë ia ka dalë të mbijetojë në katundin tonë politik, kur përpiqet ta shtrijë përtej, hendeku mes formës dhe thelbit e bën të parëndësishëm. Në regjistër i mbeten vetëm titujt e mediave që kontrollon vetë.
Mjafton të rreshtosh deklaratat e tij në mediat e huaja apo në samitet ndërkombëtare, për të kuptuar se përse askush nga faktorët relevantë nuk e merr seriozisht. Në fillim të qershorit, për shembull, thoshte për BBC se “ka një situatë shqetësuese në veri të Kosovës, po nuk do ta vija shumë theksin te rreziku”. Pas tre javësh në Bruksel deklaronte se “perspektiva e një Donbasi të vogël në mes të Europës, është një rrezik real”. Pra kur mendon se mund të pranohet si negociator nga palët, rreziku është i parëndësishëm, kur kërkon të imponohet si i tillë, paralajmëron një skenar ukrainas.
This and many other deviations are causing the Albanian prime minister to be drawn more and more as the leader of a small country that seeks a protagonist role but remains in showbiz. He may seem fun to the internationals, but the global leader remains only to the trushplars./Lapsi.al
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