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The protest that united Albanians!
2026-06-20 12:32:10 / IDE
The world is entering a new geopolitical order, where old security frameworks are crumbling and being replaced by a new architecture of polycentric tensions.
Great powers are being repositioned and strategic boundaries are being redefined at a dizzying speed, while the Western Balkans does not have the luxury of remaining a passive observer or a simple spectator of the events that will seal its future. Our region is being savagely tested as a nerve line of the clash of antagonistic visions for the future of Europe.
For Albanians, this historical moment no longer allows for the compromised role of observer.
Faced with waves of populism, massive disinformation and hybrid geopolitical influences that seek destabilization, our historical Euro-Atlantic orientation is not simply a political alignment, but a clear civilizational choice.
However, to be a real factor of stability and an accountable subject in the international arena, our greatest challenge remains the internal one: the profound transformation of our state system.
In these 35 years of prolonged transition, Albania has dramatically failed to build a genuine state of law.
Instead of constitutional principles where the law rules over everyone equally, the system has degraded into an absolute power of the political majority in power.
The ruling parties have used and misused the state machinery to capture independent institutions, control economic monopolies and continuously recycle clientelistic elites.
This electoral autocracy has finally killed meritocracy and has fueled a systemic and endemic corruption at the highest levels of administration and decision-making.
This closed political edifice has created a huge gap between society and the state, resulting in the most terrible demographic hemorrhage of our nation: mass emigration and brain drain, where young people, students and the most qualified professionals leave the country due to the lack of perspective and uncertainty about the future.
To break this three-decade wall of impunity that has protected the untouchable ruling caste, unequivocal support and cooperation with SPAK and the new justice structures constitute a national emergency and an existential dividing line.
The new justice today represents the only real protective dam between the final collapse into a corrupt autocracy and the construction of a legal state.
This institution is under constant political, media and economic pressure from those who seek to preserve the status quo, therefore civil society, the intellectual elite and citizens must stand as an unwavering shield around it.
Without a decisive blow and without the punishment of high-level corruption, no economic, educational or social reform can succeed and no serious foreign investment will find legal guarantees in this country.
In terms of leadership, this transition bears the stamp of three characters who have dominated, manipulated and blocked the political scene for decades through recycled crises and artificial divisions. It is historic time for Sali Berisha and Edi Rama to join Ilir Meta as the hypotenuse and the other leg of the same "Bermuda Triangle" in Albanian politics.
This configuration that has held the country's development hostage and has destroyed free debate and fair competition within political forces must be finally overcome.
Albania no longer has time to waste vital energy on sterile debates and internal wars for the personal interests of old leaders, but needs a mature, institutional and visionary leadership that bears the weight of reality and knows how to build solid processes.
It is precisely in the face of this decades-long deadlock that we are currently witnessing a vital popular awakening through the protests that are shaking Tirana.
This civic reaction in the squares is not simply another revolt, but an urgent demand for the final departure of the entire current political class, which bears absolute responsibility for the failures, corruption and emptying of the country over the last 35 years.
In this context, the participation and necessity of active protest should be seen as a strategic and organic alliance with SPAK. The new justice, as a massive political and financial investment by the United States of America and the European Union, has a vital need for support on the path to breaking the walls of impunity.
This union between popular pressure and independent justice structures constitutes the only way out to dismantle the old caste and save the future of the state.
This internal reflection becomes even more urgent when we shift our attention to the regional level, where the Albanian space continues to face the openly unfriendly policies and destabilizing agendas of our historical neighbors.
The process of administrative and silent passivization of Albanian addresses in the Presevo Valley by the Serbian authorities constitutes a bureaucratic ethnic cleansing that requires a strong international response. This strategy of alienation is dangerously complemented by recent developments in North Macedonia, where the official use of the Albanian language is being deliberately attacked and an arbitrary process of removing street names from Albanian to Macedonian is being undertaken, attempting to erase our identity and history from urban memory. While these pressures suffocate Albanians in their lands, regional hegemonic projects constantly aim to undermine Kosovo’s statehood and integration into global organizations, not stopping through Serbian efforts to enclavize Kosovo.
In the face of these existential threats, it is completely inexcusable and condemnable that official Tirana and Pristina have almost no national strategic coordination or real relations in the fields of security, economy and diplomacy. Joint government summits and the signing of pompous agreements have remained mere propaganda shows for electoral consumption, while behind the scenes serious concessions are made to the detriment of sovereignty, where after Berisha gave 6 nautical miles to Greece, Rama added another 6 miles to this gift and then the Greek prime minister would say in the Greek parliament: "We gained another 6 nautical miles". This mentality of concessions and diplomatic submission to Athens also explains the fact why the Cham Issue continues to remain an open wound and an unresolved critical crisis between the two countries.
The ethnic cleansing and the tragedy of the Albanians of Chameria have been deliberately left in oblivion, while the Albanian state has done almost nothing on the diplomatic and international level over these decades to seek justice, the return of property and the recognition of the legitimate rights of this population.
This political stagnation has also paved the way for dangerous identity experiments, such as the often-circulated idea of creating a completely non-existent "Kosovar nation", an absurd thesis that aims to dilute our inseparable blood, linguistic and cultural ties, attempting to alienate the Albanians of Kosovo from their true ethnic core.
The lack of a unified voice in the international sphere and the tolerance of these geopolitical deviations has significantly weakened our position, allowing our neighbors to advance media-wise and territorially with their assimilation and isolation projects to the detriment of our national interests.
Albanians no longer have the luxury of political adolescence, stifling social apathy or petty provincial divisions.
It is time to design and build with determination a New Albania, a state where the law rules over all power and where the absolute and unquestionable priority is the prosperity of our nation.
In the new global order, the relevance of Albanians will no longer be determined by our geographical size, territorial size, or population, but by the exclusive ability to coordinate the energy of youth, the thinking of elites, and the extraordinary lobbying power of our global diaspora around a single and invincible national agenda, anchored in our vital and strategic alliance with the United States of America.
Only by building strong, meritocratic institutions and by cleansing the system of corruption can we turn the Albanian space into a model of development, dignity, and an inviolable factor of stability within the Euro-Atlantic security framework.
This Western orientation is not a momentary political course, nor a mere "candidate" status awaiting mercy at the doors of Brussels; it is an organic and civilizational affiliation that stems from antiquity. Albanians are not seeking to enter Europe as foreigners, because this is the land from which Europe itself began to be designed, giving the world its strongest pillars: the codification of law and state through Emperor Justinian, as well as freedom of religion and spiritual foundations through Constantine the Great. This legacy obliges us not to behave as peripheral witnesses, but as legitimate masters of our destiny, raising the Albanian nation to the height of its history.
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