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Why should MEPs meet Berisha?
2026-02-18 19:33:23 / IDE
If there are moments when Berisha loses his cool and is rightly filled with anger at these Western delegations coming to Albania, it is when they come to Tirana, meet with the government and the opposition, and even meet with all his associates, except for him and Flamur Noka. Many people do not notice this work of Noka, because they think that they do not meet him as a fool, but in fact they do not meet him as "non grata".
The same scene was repeated today. The European Parliament delegation met with the SP and the DP, but only Jordia managed to find a "brave" within the delegation to go to Berisha's office. The official leaders of the delegation, including the right-wing German McAllister, publicly refused to meet him.
Now I'm curious about the difference in impressions an MEP gets when meeting Berisha's people compared to the impressions he has when meeting Berisha himself.
The trauma must be strong. Berisha's MPs, although completely loyal and humble before him, try to convey to the MEPs, in their own language, the problems that Berisha raises regarding corruption, democracy, elections, etc.
Whereas those who meet Berisha directly hear about the "Albanian Epstein" who is Ergys Agasi, about McGonigal who is Edi Rama, about the imprisonment of Kosovo's liberators in The Hague that Rama has imprisoned with Vučić, etc., things like this. So, unlike his associates who try to find accusations in Albania and adapt them to EU standards, Berisha finds international scandals and illustrates them with Edi Rama.
After doing all this work, after confusing an MEP who calls meeting with him dissidence, he then imagines the scene when he goes to tell his friends in the delegation and they say in unison: "Leave him alone, he's been like this for 35 years."
And of course there is reason to despair.
Now the European Union and especially the European right must solve this problem of representation with Berisha in Albania. They certainly have the power to isolate Berisha, as they do, but they do not have the power to elect him as head of the DP or to dismiss him. He is the chairman of the Democratic Party of Albania, a member of the European People's Parties, and an ally of McAllister's CDU, which refuses to meet him.
This refusal to meet him strengthens Berisha even more within his own ranks. They faced "non grata" in the US, not the boycott of the European Union. The fact that they meet Berisha's associates and reject Berisha is banal.
If they want the DP not to be represented by Berisha, they should address this within the People's Parties and force them to suspend the DP's status as a member until its leader is renewed.
If they keep her a member of the People's Parties, if they don't certify the way he forcibly seized the DP, if they don't see how he "self-excludes" the voices that continue to oppose him, then I don't know why they refuse to meet Berisha.
They are approving his actions within the DP, they are approving his violation of the rules of the game with both feet, they are approving his battle against justice, and it makes no sense to refuse meetings with him.
Meetings with him can be rejected when they reject everything about him, not when they accept everything about his leadership except him physically. He has no anger; it is not a problem to shake his hand. The problem is to feed the illusion that he is the leader of the opposition in Albania and make people think that with him they will come to power, even though no one steps on his office.
The cholera he has spread in the opposition is precisely the ignoring of Western pressure not to have at the head of the DP a leader accused by his family of major corruption, undermining democracy, and pressure on justice.
By gaining immunity from this evil, the Albanian opposition today has lost the power to change the situation in Albania, as they themselves have taken the worst corner and relativize whatever the government does.
The Albanian opposition needs a leader who will be the first stop for Western leaders in Albania and who will seriously believe that he can pull Albania's wagons towards the West, not a leader who turns away every Westerner who comes to Tirana.
So what the European right-wingers do, who come here, ignore Berisha and pretend to meet with the DP by drinking coffee with those that Berisha keeps in the DP just because he is isolated, is not right.
They should either meet Berisha and tell the Albanians that he too can win with our support, or go and meet him and tell him to his face: with you, the DP will not come to power.
This method, where they pretend to be with the DP, but not with Berisha, is hypocrisy, as it seems as if the DP is a democratic party and people are elected according to rules based on their abilities.
There, even if you were thinking against Berisha, you "self-excluded" like in The Servant of the Palace of Dreams, and no longer acted against his will.
So the EU, but especially the European right, should make up their minds: if they need the DP, they should accept it as Berisha's private property. If they can't accept it with Berisha at the helm, they should expel him. But not go to his house and meet his guards and servants.
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