In a European country, when you break your word, you apologize.
When you're caught off guard, you take responsibility, you don't jump to the next, bigger, more beautiful, more unrealizable promise.
The European passport requires a separation of powers,
not a political gravity where everything revolves around one.
It demands free competition,
not capitalism with PPPs and uncompetitive tenders.
It demands a system where the most capable wins, not the closest.
The European passport is not given for spectacular inspections,
where the Prime Minister and ministers line up at the construction site like in the old documentaries of the Kinostudio "New Albania".
It demands that 900 noisy inspections of the Prime Minister and ministers be carried out quietly by the AKU and the inspectorates that are tasked with the inspection.
Europe demands free and fair elections, where parties compete with each other, not the administration with the opposition.
The European passport is for countries that recycle waste, not promises.
For countries where incinerators burn garbage, not public funds and legal proof.
But more than that, the European passport requires standards.
It requires schools that teach, not that issue diplomas.
Salaries that allow you to live with dignity.
Pensions that keep you alive, not that put you in debt for medicine.
Justice that is given while you are alive, not when you have passed away.
Property that is protected by law, not that is robbed by court order.
Europe is an area of security, freedom and justice.
We only meet one: the geographical criterion!
Yes, the European passport requires a lot.
More than the signature of a prime minister,
more than a ceremony with a blue flag as a backdrop.
Believing that a piece of paper with stars can replace standards we never built
is like confusing a barcode with dignity.
Because in Albania, it is not a problem to become European on paper and in promises,
the problem is to behave like a European in everyday life.
And the most difficult of all:
To govern like a European.
And this… has no value with chips.
When you hear about the European passport, remember:
We don't lack "papers". We lack Europe in our daily lives.
Because Europe is not a refuge, it is a standard.
And that standard is not stamped, but built.
Europe is here.
And to build it, it doesn't require miracles, magic, or fantasy.
We just need to learn and instill as a "vice" one word:
Good Governance. (A2 Televizion)
