Albin Kurti acts as if he introduced sanctions against the West

Hundreds of Kosovo journalists were on the streets today to protest against the decision of the Kosovo Government to shut down Klan Kosova, under technical justifications and bureaucratic links for the registration declarations of the company that owns the television.

In an attempt to defend his decision, Kurti said he was shutting down only one of the hundreds of media companies operating in Kosovo.

In other words, according to his words, in relation to the media, statistics are important, not principles.

According to Kurti's logic, 49.9 percent of the media should be allowed to be closed, but more than half have not been closed yet, and it is considered that the situation with media freedom is still positive.

That logic, which is essentially open fascism, is also reflected in his attitude toward Western sanctions.

While the West has put Kosovo under sanctions, due to Albin Kurti's policies in the north and the uncertainty he has created for the future of cooperation with the West, he has stated that he has withdrawn 25 percent of the police and that now the West must lift the sanctions.

In his opinion, statistics are more important than the quality of attitude.

That is, when he withdraws 51 percent of the police, the West must withdraw 51 percent of the sanctions.

Even Stalin was more illogical. He believed that the death of a soldier was a tragedy, and the disappearance of a battalion was a statistic.

From the way he is behaving, it seems as if Kurti introduced sanctions against the West and is now trying to remove them bit by bit.

It's the same with the press, that after the punishment of one, another is closed, so they make statistics and say that there are hundreds of other media that he has not punished or closed.

The problems of sanctions against Kosovo, as well as the problem of freedom of the press, are not statistics, but issues of content and security that the Government in Kosovo must create in relation to freedom of the press and Western standards.

Albin Kurti proved that the critical press is his enemy and it doesn't matter if he closed one media, punished another, and how he punished others.

To see if the barrel of wine is broken, it is enough to taste the glass, and Albin Kurti gave his proof that he is an enemy of the freedom of the press.

It is even worse with the sanctions on Kosovo.

Kosovo was put under sanctions not because Kurti took 75 percent of the police to the north, three of whom were humiliated by Serbia, but because he demonstrated his hatred towards the West and created uncertainty for the US and the EU that his government would respect Western standards in Kosovo regarding the Serbian minority.

Restoring that trust is not a matter of numbers and percentages.

It is not enough to withdraw 25 percent or 100 percent of the police. It is not enough to make a new choice.

The lifting of sanctions will take time until the West is convinced that the Government of Kosovo has given up its hostility towards the West and creating a bad perspective for Western standards in Kosovo.

Now Kosovo can no longer be the same for the West.

It is an anti-western country.

Unfortunately, Serbia still does not have that status, thanks to Albin Kurti, who is more willing to fight the West, than Serbia.

Therefore, for Kosovo to return to where it was, to become an ally of the West, statistics are no longer enough, nor is the fact that media attacks do not count for its attitude towards freedom of the press.

What counts is the belief that he does not tolerate a free press and that he is not ready to make Kosovo a Western state.

He behaves as if he has sanctioned the West, or sanctions the press, and everyone should respect him when he deviates from this nonsense.

When you do such nonsense you call yourself lost, you don't call yourself respected. He would be respected if he didn't do these things. Now that he had done them, they could not be undone by their destruction. It will disappear with his departure.

By: Mero Baze, political analyst and journalist from Albania