TIRANA, June 25 – Albanian PM Edi Rama has said that the Bulgarian parliament voted on Friday for something that he hoped would be enough for the friends in North Macedonia.
Rama made that comment in the European Wachau Forum on “Preserving the future of Europe and EU enlargement” where he was invited together with the Chancellor of Austria, Karl Nehammer on Saturday.
“I want to emphasize that this is not just about Bulgaria. Bulgaria is only the extreme expression of the distorted spirit of enlargement. There is something deeper that has been lost and that needs to be recovered quickly,” Rama said.
“We all hear that Vladimir Putin is very ill. It may be true, it may not be true, but on the other hand it does not look like the EU is very healthy. And that our space is well protected from what may come,” Rama said.
“I heard one of my French friends here repeat that Vladimir Putin has done the opposite of what he wanted by uniting Europe, bringing NATO together. All these things we have heard since day one. But it’s too early to tell, I think. It does not look like next winter will be easy and we should not take this union for granted. We should not take for granted the goal of patience of public opinion in the West, as opposed to the goal of patience, which does not even exist in Russia,” Rama stressed.
“The EU is the only geographical reality in the history of maps that has two borders. An internal and an external, in the middle is this part of the world called the Balkans for which I believe that Austria is among the few that has a very clear idea and has a very secure vision, that despite internal issues, Austria has never, ever betrayed him. The same does not apply to others,” said Rama.
“So what happened to Bulgaria was a symbol of how enlargement has been transformed into a means of taking other countries hostage for the sake of internal problems,” Rama said.
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