Large appetites Male Albania

The idea of creating a Greater Albania dates from the 1878th , and the current day. You must remove the barriers that prevent ethnic Albanians living in the general territory, recently told the Prime Minister of Albania Sali Berisha. Belgrade has condemned Berisha's statement, and EU officials did not react.

Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha has recently said that we should remove the barriers that prevent ethnic Albanians living in the general territory.

Belgrade has condemned the provocative statement Berisha, and European Union officials did not react.

The idea of creating large, and ethnic Albania, the Albanians called the project to merge the territory in which they live, there are still 1878th The declaration of the Prizren League, and is now current.

The recent opening of the tunnel on the highway Durres-kuks-Pristina, Albanian media have devoted great attention, with the assessment that it is a "unification tunnel".

Prime Minister of Kosovo and Albania, Hashim Taci and Sali Berisha, said then that there is nothing which can divide the Albanians.

Addressing the national question

Greater Albania project gets the swing after the constitutional changes 1974th year. Fourteen years later, the Academy of Sciences in Tirana announced a platform for solving the Albanian national question.

It is defined in the first phase, where possible, to create a new Albanian state and the autonomy of the territory of neighboring countries, and another asked their merger with Albania.

"These territories are defined between the two world wars. This is the area of Kosovo, part of Raska, eastern and southern Montenegro, western Macedonia and Epirus area in Greece," said historian Cedomir Antic.

The desire to create a Greater Albania, notes, can not be interpreted as a unique and isolated case as is, without argument, attempted when defining the status of Kosovo and Metohija.

Then, as he says, with the right question of unification and other Balkan nations, primarily the Serbs on both sides of the Drina, who have already lived in one state.

The test for the international community

Berisha statements and the recent riots in Pristina, when they destroyed cars EULEX, is interpreted as a test for the international community.

"When it comes to Kosovo Albanians, as far as UNMIK, KFOR and EULEX to make them work, they want to free themselves and continue their own way, and what it might be time reminded us Sali Berisha," said Professor Faculty of Political Science, Predrag Simic.

However, Albanian Prime Minister a year ago in an interview for RTS said that Albanians do not think about "Greater Albania", but a "big Europe".

"It was a political party in Kosovo and Albania are the option of unification. But you know how many votes were received in the elections. Only a few hundred in Albania and Kosovo," said Berisha in September 2008. year.

New prekratanje borders at will advocate a Greater Albania that included five states and to encourage, evaluate analysts, and other Balkan nations to seek reunification with their compatriots, which would completely destabilize southeastern Europe.