{"id":27833,"date":"2021-12-20T18:16:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T17:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=27833"},"modified":"2021-12-20T18:17:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T17:17:17","slug":"berisha-open-balkan-seeks-to-instil-serbian-russian-hegemony-in-the-balkans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/berisha-open-balkan-seeks-to-instil-serbian-russian-hegemony-in-the-balkans\/","title":{"rendered":"Berisha: \u2018Open Balkan\u2019 seeks to instill Serbian-Russian hegemony in the Balkans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During his speech at the protest that took place tonight, in front of the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, former PM Sali Berisha said that the main reason for this protest is the speak out against the Open Balkan project, which according to him, is trying to instil a pro-Serbian narrative in the Balkans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are speaking out in the name of protecting our national interest. We have gathered to protest against the ghost project of the Belgrade-Tirana-Skopje alliance. I want to guarantee Albanians that this isn\u2019t a protest against regional collaboration. This is a protest against a project that has been refused by Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro and Kosovo. It\u2019s a project that aims none other than the instilment of Serbian hegemony in the region,\u201d \u2013 said Berisha.<\/p>\n<p>According to the former PM, through the Open Balkan initiative, Vucic and Rama have encompassed Kosovo and are trying to exterminate its independence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an adventurous effort to annihilate the Berlin initiative and EU integration. I say to Vucic, that he will never be welcome in Tirana because your lord is Moscow. Behind your initiative lies the effort to turn this area into Putin\u2019s personal zone of influence,\u201d \u2013 said Berisha.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he said that this initiative will be overthrown as soon as Democrats come to power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his speech at the protest that took place tonight, in front of the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, former PM Sali Berisha said that the main reason for this protest is the speak out against the Open Balkan project, which according to him, is trying to instil a pro-Serbian narrative in the Balkans. \u201cWe are speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[150,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Berisha: \u2018Open Balkan\u2019 seeks to instill Serbian-Russian hegemony in the Balkans - 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