TIRANA, June 25 /ATA/ – Prime Minister Edi Rama reiterated Saturday that the Open Balkan initiative to deliver on the four freedoms of the European Union is a tool to implement and deliver on the Berlin Process.
In the course of his visit to Austria, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama was invited along with the Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer to attend the Wachau European Forum with motto of this year’s event being “Safeguarding Europe’s future and EU Enlargement.”
“For anyone who has read Samual Becket’s Waiting for Godot, I think it is easy to figure out how real life imitates the theatre and North Macedonia and Albania are the imitation of both Becket’s characters, Vladimir and Estragon in the play Waiting for Godot. Vladimir asks Estragon: Shall we move? And Estragon replies: Yes, let’s move. But it is then Samuel Beckett, the playwright, or the EU in this case, that says: Nobody will move,” he said.
However – he went on saying – “our choice is not so complicated, as instead of waiting for Godot without moving, we can move ourselves by reviving Europe’s spirit right in our region, so that peace is no longer reversible into a very horrible thing, and we are very good at making horrible things rather than at things that can be solved easily, so that four freedoms of the EU, namely the movement of people, goods, capital and services become a way how we live with one another,” PM Rama said.
“We want to implement the Berlin Process and we have developed the right tool that we call Open Balkans. Open Balkans is precisely this tool to implement the Berlin Process and it is exactly what we will be doing,” he stated.
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