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Shkruar nga Skënder Minxhozi
National unity, virtually the "Ferrari" of all Albanians, will continue to remain on display for a long time. It's pointless to argue about it, we only harm ourselves!
The whole dirty wave of accusations on social networks between Albania and Kosovo, which followed the fistfight that two Big Brother residents exchanged between them, revealed once again how easily the atmosphere is manipulated even when talking about two parts of the same nation, with the same history, origin, language, culture and customs. It was evoked once again, after that banal fistfight, reprehensible but totally useless in the contexts in which it was decided, that between Kosovars and Albanians (both sides Albanian, by the way), there should be no unity, communication, comings and goings and the like.
The cliché that "we are not Albanians and we do not want to unite with Albania" was once again brought to the stage. The last word was used for a quarrel within a spectacle that lives and feeds on provocation, blows below the belt and manipulation. A piece of television with a very dubious taste and level was transplanted into real life, which can in no way be a barometer of the relations and reports between two states that share the same nation.
The thesis of non-union with Albania floats like a kerosene stain in the clear water of feelings and experiences that have been built for 25 years between the mother state of Albania and the newest state in Europe, the Republic of Kosovo. It is a coexistence that after 1999 has gradually passed from imagination, epic, ballads and history, to the dense network of concrete relations between the two states, societies and hundreds of thousands of people who live on both sides of the political border and come and go to each other every day. Of that border that has not prevented a close and forward-looking coexistence from being built between Kosovo and Albania.
There are many problems between two poor countries, such as Kosovo and Albania. Politics is still doing little to bring the two sides of the border closer, political grudges as well, but ordinary people with their subtle intuition have understood that this large Albanian-speaking market that starts in Saranda and ends in Mitrovica is a common destiny that we must patiently prepare for the future that awaits it.
And right here, at the prospect of a common relationship between the two countries, the ugly speculation about "non-unification" seems to be starting! To swear today that because of a fistfight between two young people confused by the long period of isolation, we do not want unification with Albania is a myopia as big as a castle. How many Albanians in Albania fight among themselves every day in the cities and villages of this country? How many Albanians in Kosovo do the same on the other side of the border? Why should a televised fistfight have the power of such a big and heavy verdict?!
On the other hand, to swear today, in 2025, for the unification or non-unification of Albania with Kosovo, is an act that is both ridiculous and naive. Nowhere in the near horizon of the affairs that the two Albanian states in the Balkans have in mind, is the near prospect of unification foreseen. Albania is caught in the clutches of a long post-communist transition, from which it is not managing to emerge. Despite its hundred-plus year history as an independent state, Albania has not yet integrated with the rest of the European continent. This places Tirana in a completely unfavorable position in relation to delicate topics such as this of unification with Kosovo. Parties, associations, the media and public opinion can flirt as much as they want with this idea that touches the limits of a romanticism that dates back to the National Renaissance, but this has not been and is not a project written on paper to be implemented in the foreseeable future.
Even less is national unification a concrete and predictable issue in Kosovo. Where they are trying to get out of the cycle of recognition and installation in international institutions. The dialogue with Serbia continues to remain suspended, and this, among other things, makes a major act of self-determination such as unification with another state practically impossible. Not only Russia, China and Serbia, but also those we know as partners and friends would prevent it from the first step.
Arguing today about national disunity is like the work of two young men who stop at a car dealership and start arguing about the color of the Ferrari displayed in the window. One wants red, the other white, while they don't even have money in their pockets to buy a bicycle. Today, we too are arguing about something that we don't know when it will happen, how it will come, or what form it will take. And in these circumstances, the wisest thing is to keep quiet and wait. National unity, virtually the "Ferrari" of all Albanians, will continue to remain in the window for a long time. It's pointless to argue about it, we only harm ourselves!
Inflaming public opinion with statements and calls for "non-union" that fuel the filthy fire of hatred between two parts of the same nation for banal and vulgar motives is a despicable and essentially anti-national gesture. The social network is carrying out an extremely negative mission in this regard that does not bring anything good. The principle "you punched me, so my country should not unite with yours" is an infinitely low thing, but in the numb brains of social networks it often turns into fuel to feed a hostility that has no logic and benefit for Albanians. In Albania and in Kosovo.
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