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1<\/span> After it became even more certain that Albania will continue its negotiations with the European Union without waiting for Macedonia to include Bulgarians in the Constitution, Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski repeated once again: “If this is the condition, then I have already said it in Brussels – No, thank you.”<\/p>\n

Okay. That\u2019s completely understandable. But now what? If it\u2019s a \u201cNo thanks\u201d situation, does our Prime Minister have a plan? If it\u2019s a no to the EU, then is there a plan about who he\u2019ll partner with? If he does partner with someone, is there a plan about how that partnership will work? If we choose self-isolation, what\u2019s the plan for progressing while isolated?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s great he got to say that in Brussels. He suggested that we would include Bulgarians in our Constitution, but that this should apply when we actually join the EU. And he\u2019ll probably keep saying the same thing.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s be clear, the key point isn\u2019t about what he has to say to them. The key point is what they said to him. And the way EU responded to his plan was by saying: We are separating Albania, and it will continue the negotiations on its own.<\/p>\n

Yes, it\u2019s true that no one else has been forced to change their Constitution 36 times like we have, to change the flag and to change the name of the country. No one disputes that. But honestly, why should I, as a citizen, feel good about the Prime Minister telling me that Europe is bullying us? I\u2019ve felt that way for 33 years after all.<\/p>\n

We can throw a fit and whine that the EU isn\u2019t being fair. The EU doesn\u2019t buy into tears. It never has. So, Mickoski can cry all he wants, but crying doesn\u2019t play well even at home. Except, maybe among his loyal voters, but sooner or later, they too will start asking: What next? What\u2019s the point? This is starting to feel like masochism. Come on leader, give us a plan. Say something new. And get down to work.<\/p>\n

Mickoski isn\u2019t saying whether he has a plan, but Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban definitely does, as he mentioned in Ohrid.<\/p>\n

Where the money is, that\u2019s where the plans are. A 500 million loan from Hungary \u2013 there’s your plan.<\/p>\n

2<\/span> Nothing good will come from this. Does the EU expect to shake us up so we\u2019d come to our senses, and make us realise: Oh, since Albania is moving forward, let’s just include Bulgarians in our Constitution first thing tomorrow? Euroscepticism is only going to get stronger. And it will give Mickoski an alibi to keep pushing his agenda with Orban\u2019s money.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll go back to 2008, when after Greece vetoed our NATO membership, Gruevski started capturing his country in the most brutal way and getting rich. If you\u2019re not accepting us into the EU, you have no right to tell us how to run our country.<\/p>\n

What happened to us after the NATO veto is going to happen again after the EU veto. We saw how that turned out for the country. With the same party in power.<\/p>\n

3<\/span> And SDSM is just poking fun. Instead of saying, wait, let’s find a solution together, since we already messed up by not consulting anyone when we accepted the French proposal, they now dare spread hysteria that the country will fall apart.<\/p>\n

Everything they\u2019re saying now is totally irrelevant. It\u2019s their incompetence and arrogance that got us into this mess in the first place. They accepted a contract they couldn\u2019t enforce. They kept insisting until the very end that they had a majority in Parliament to change the Constitution. They blindly clung to the idea that America would do their job alongside Macron and Scholz. They couldn\u2019t even convince their own members, let alone anyone else, that they had secured a good negotiating framework.<\/p>\n

Mickoski, as the opposition leader, refused to cooperate with SDSM on pretty much everything. Meanwhile, SDSM, whether Zoran Zaev or even more so with Dimitar Kovachevski, failed to find a way to engage in dialogue with the opposition. And so, acting out of spite for each other, they let DUI take charge of defining what Macedonian state interests are.<\/p>\n

Which team was Mickoski counting on when he promised to secure a better negotiating framework with the EU? What foreign friends did he have in mind? What was he thinking when, right after winning the elections, he clashed with Greece right off the bat, and turned the European sister parties of VMRO-DPMNE against him?<\/p>\n

Now that Orban mentioned that he proposed a plan to Mickoski, I’m really curious to see if our prime minister will share that plan with his coalition partners and the opposition? Will he also consult Venko Filipche? To be completely frank, I\u2019m not sure if Filipche would accept to be consulted about Orban’s plan.<\/p>\n

Which domestic political elite do we expect to solve our problems? The Speaker of the Albanian Parliament comes and gives our Speaker tasks, acting like she\u2019s his mentor for postgraduate studies. Which kind of leadership and which unity will drive this country forward? For instance, moving forward on our European path, if that\u2019s even our path, since it\u2019s clear that they can\u2019t agree on that either. They can\u2019t define what our state interests are.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s really depressing to be asking myself this question after 33 years.<\/p>\n

But when something bad keeps repeating, I can\u2019t help but think the next time won\u2019t be any better.<\/p>\n

Translated by Nikola Gjelincheski<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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