The Balkan "mini Schengen" seriously deepened the divisions in the relations between Pristina, which considers the initiative "hasty and unnecessary", and Tirana, whose Prime Minister Edi Rama, a participant in the two meetings held so far, in Novi Sad and Ohrid, considers it very useful for all countries. region.
This is the topic that all Pristina media are dealing with today, after the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, said on Tuesday that Pristina's opposition to the initiative, which ensures a better flow of people, goods and services between the Balkan countries, threatens Albania's foreign policy for the sake of its internal political interest.
Rama also said this in an address to journalists in Ohrid, and then he repeated as a guest on Top Channel that he explained for a long time to the candidate for Prime Minister of Kosovo, Aljbin Kurti, the importance of the "mini-Schengen" process and that he would be very surprised if he did not he understands, because, as he added, Kurti is intelligent enough.
"If he pretends to understand or not, that's his choice, but it seems that foreign policy with Albania is being used for internal policy. I don't believe that's the best, we'll have time to talk and deepen the discussions," Rama said then.
Kurti then criticized Albania and Prime Minister Edi Rama, saying that the Albanian Prime Minister should have waited for the formation of the new Kosovo government, that the initiative was not only "hasty and wrong", but that Albania should have started the project with Pristina, not with Belgrade.
"Novi Sad and Ohrid were a mistake. It doesn't start with Serbia. It starts with the agreement between Kosovo and Albania, continues with the agreement between Croatia and Bulgaria, and then officially Sarajevo, Podgorica and Skopje, and finally Belgrade," said Kurti.
Vjosa Osmani from the Democratic Alliance of Kosovo, a candidate for Prime Minister of Kosovo, has the same attitude, reports Tanjug.
She told Pristina media that she is convinced that Rama had discussed the Balkan "mini-Schengen" with Pristina first, they would have convinced him, she says, that it is bad for Kosovo.
Analysts from Pristina state that the initiative, launched by the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, and joined by the Prime Ministers of North Macedonia and Albania, Zoran Zaev and Edi Rama, only deepened the divisions in the relations between Pristina and Tirana, and they see the blame for this in both sides being unprepared to strengthen mutual relations.
Zeri of Pristina reminds that since the first meeting of the Kosovo government and the government in Tirana, in January 2014, a dozen agreements on joint strategic management and Euro-Atlantic vision have been signed, which, however, are not implemented in practice.
This tension in the relations between Pristina and Tirana was commented on by the leader of the Kosovo Unification Movement, Valon Murati, who warned that by continuing such a trend, Kosovo will have incalculable consequences.
"Kosovo centrism is anti-Albanian and, of course, in the future it will affect the abandonment of social and national cohesion in Kosovo, thus opening dangerous gates for the future of Kosovo and Albanians," Murati wrote on his Facebook profile.
He pointed out that if the new Kosovo government takes that path, which, as he stated, promotes the DSK, Pristina will suffer great damage, especially in relations with Albania.
"Kosovocentrism is not only anti-Albanian, but also opens the door to xenophobia in our society. Accordingly, Kosovocentrism is also an anti-European value, because what has ever been proven in this region is only the Albanian identity that unites all the complexity that an Albanian in itself is a European value ", said Murati.
Pristina analysts who are opposed to "mini-Schengen" believe that by Albania's participation in the meetings in Novi Sad and Ohrid, and the next one scheduled for December in the Albanian city of Durrës, Edi Rama helped Belgrade.
Rama, they say, did not indicate what Tirana and Pristina can gain from that initiative, as well as from, as they say, the frequent meetings of the Albanian prime minister with the Serbian president.
Political scientist Sulejman Mehazi says that the Balkan "mini-Schengen" is nothing but, as he says, "Russian-Orthodox influence" and that is why Rama's participation in that initiative is dangerous for him, the Albanians, but also for the entire Balkans, the EU and the USA.
Mehazi believes that Rama should therefore be more careful, because with Albania's participation in that initiative, he supports, as he says, "genocides, rapes, murders, Serbian deportations of Kosovo citizens, supports all Milosevic's ugly deeds".
According to him, the meeting between Rama, Vučić and Zaev in Ohrid is for, as he states, "the unification of the Orthodox-Russian forces against the advanced and democratic forces of the EU and the USA".
"Unconscious stubbornness led Rama to leave American and European Kosovo and join the Orthodox mini-Schengen Vučić, Russian Zaev and Putin. As you can see, Serbia is more valuable to Rama than all of Albanian Kosovo," Mehazi told Pristina's Bota sot.
The same is said by Professor Enver Bitići, who believes that "mini-Schengen" is a departure from European integration, and that Rama supported the "Balkan Union" with all the former Yugoslav states, minus Slovenia plus Albania.
"This kind of unification is the will of the arrogant and authoritative Balkan leaders, Edi Rama and Aleksandar Vučić. And if the president of Serbia knows that this initiative is in the interest of his country, why is the prime minister of Albania running for the Serbian and against the Albanian interest? This is a puzzle... ", believes Bitići.
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