{"id":37758,"date":"2022-06-07T19:40:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T17:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=37758"},"modified":"2022-06-07T19:41:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T17:41:26","slug":"pollo-is-steadfast-on-open-balkan-albania-should-back-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/pollo-is-steadfast-on-open-balkan-albania-should-back-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollo is steadfast on Open Balkan: Albania should back down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic MP, Genc Polli, stated that the Open Balkan initiative goes against the Euro Atlantic spirit.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Albania should withdraw from this initiative as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the uttermost essence of its propaganda, it\u2019s difficult to oppose Open Balkan. But, the problem lies with the fact that first and foremost, this initiative was formulated in a city with revanchist and extreme nationalistic tendencies like Belgrade,\u201d \u2013 said Pollo during his interview for Euronews Albania\u2019s \u2018SOT\u2019 with Jonida Shehu.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he said that Open Balkan is unnecessary and useless at a time when we already had a much better alternative like the Berlin Process which accompanies our integration process into the European Union.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/balkans\/2022\/06\/07\/kusari-lila-lavrovs-statement-showed-open-balkan-conceived-in-serbia\/\">Kusari-Lila: Lavrov\u2019s statement showed Open Balkan conceived in Serbia<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/balkans\/2022\/06\/07\/montenegro-to-attend-open-balkan-2-day-meeting-in-ohrid\/\">Montenegro to attend Open Balkan 2-day meeting in Ohrid<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2022\/06\/02\/osmani-open-balkan-wouldnt-treat-kosovo-as-an-equal-partner\/\">Osmani: Open Balkan wouldn\u2019t treat Kosovo as an equal partner<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"eneu37737\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic MP, Genc Polli, stated that the Open Balkan initiative goes against the Euro Atlantic spirit. According to him, Albania should withdraw from this initiative as soon as possible. \u201cIn the uttermost essence of its propaganda, it\u2019s difficult to oppose Open Balkan. But, the problem lies with the fact that first and foremost, this initiative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":37761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[270,613,995,392,1570,151,614,1571,301],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pollo is steadfast on Open Balkan: Albania should back down - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/pollo-is-steadfast-on-open-balkan-albania-should-back-down\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pollo is steadfast on Open Balkan: Albania should back down - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Democratic MP, Genc Polli, stated that the Open Balkan initiative goes against the Euro Atlantic spirit. 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