I do not see anything disputable in Edi Rama’s statement on decoupling Albania from North Macedonia on the road to the EU. It is logical if we continue to be blocked by Bulgaria that other candidate countries will not want to link their path to the EU with anyone else, including us. If the EU wants to be a geostrategic project, the whole region needs to find its place in the Union as soon as possible, President Stevo Pendarovski told a joint press conference with Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic in Cetinje.

From the point of view of the Albanian national interests, Rama’s statement is logical. We have been treated in a package by Brussels together with Albania for the past 2.5 years and without going into the reasoning of the Brussels bureaucratic and political community why this is so, because in essence the process of European integration is a merit based process – those deserving individually go further, those who do not stay in the waiting room, so not entering into that set of motives why they did it a few years ago it is logical if we continue to be blocked by Bulgaria that other candidate countries will not want their fate, their path to European integration to be connected with anyone else, including us, Pendarovski said when asked about the statement of the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama.