Albanians and Europe of Nations and Regions

With it concern for us after 1981,Europe indeed has made possible that our tragical sufferings not become
more tragical,but it hasn't done a thing in changing our colonial situation in which we are found.
During this time,European Parliament has passed several resolutions on the defence of our human individual rights,
but it has not yet dealt with the historical causes of yesterday,and the constitutional causes of today which make our life
defenceless,unguaranteed,therefore insecure in the state of the Slavic peoples.Doubtlessly,we have no right to seek from
anybody,therefore from Europe either,to do something more for us from what we do for ourselves;after all,historical
experience teaches us that a nation cannot be helped by anyone if it cannot help itself.
We have been convinced for many times during the last ten years that the protection of rights and individual
sovereignity does not mean,unfortunately,a protection of the collective rights and sovereignity.But,apart from the nature
of the European concern for us,it is comprehensible why the Albanians in Yugoslavia as an occupied people for eighty
years,as a banned and defenceless people,which in the territories in which it lives is the sole stateforming population or
majority - its salvation from the position in which it is today is seeking precisly in the new European democratic order,
i.e. in future Europe.
And ,why shouldn't they ?
Future Europe,projected as a Europe of united and free people of Europe,has become a hope of the small nations
which belong to it not only geographically and historically,but also of the small nations which belong to it geographically,
but that have not always belonged historically to it.
For all of them,the united Europe is not only one geographic notion.For all of them it is at the same time a political and
economical space;spiritual and cultural category -i.e. a project of the future.There is a good reason for hope in it.
For the first time in the history of Europe,its new order will be utterly different from the orders created by
swords at the time when the sword was the main means of order; from the order created by guns after the First World
War,when the peace of Verssiailles decided by guns caused another more bloody world war; from the order created by
tanks and airplanes determined the order that will be called the Cold War.
For the first time in the history of Europe,the new European order is not created based only on the political will of the
big nations,but also of the small nations.United Europe cannot be equated with France,Germany,and Italy,for example,
because it will be a Europe in which small nations,too,will enjoy equal rights,the names of which Europe never
remembered before.Precisely from them it is thought of as a multinational,multicultural,and multilingual community,
in which everybody ought to fee equal undependently of the size,and secure undependently of power.
Those that do not yet enjoy independence are hoping to win it;those that are ethnically divided are hoping to get united;
those that are economically underdeveloped are hoping for a more rapid development.With such hopes the united
Europe is looked at,first of all,from those small nations - that are dependent - like Slovenes,Croats,the Baltic nations,
Slovaks,Ukrainians,or dependent and oppressed - like the Albanians in totalitarian federations,in fact,in the last empires
of the European continent - like the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.Therefore,it is understandable why all these people
that believe that the democratic process in the countries of Eastern and Central Europe is,at the same time,the third
wave of the creation of national states during the last hundred years,are searching for their traditional ties with the
countries of Western Europe,emphasizing that undependently of occasional divisons they do belong to the circle of
the Western civilization.
All these peoples,more or less blocked during history - because they were small and hindered even today
in their endeauvours for independence - because they have still remained in the iron embrace of these federations,they
see the solvation of their natonal problems: in Europe of united nations,in which it would be possible for them to enter
as independent nations,or as independent and united nations,that is into their national entirety;or,in the Europe of
united regions in which it would be possible for them to enter as regions - as it is seen - with an identity based on the
ethnic factor,on language,ethnic - cultural experience,civilization experience,on mentality,respectively with developing
possibilities based on corresponding and fulfilling order of the economic and ecological factors.
Albanians have the right to hope that their question can be solved in an entire way,and not partially,
on long-term and not temporary basis,in the Europe of united peoples,but of the free Europeans,because in the
Europe of peoples,they will,as a divided people,become united.But,Albanians have every right to hope that their
question,in fact their right for national unification,may be solved equally rightfully even in the Europe of the united
regions,in which a factor of identity would be the ethnic factor.If the Europe of peoples,respectively of the regions,
will not be the Europe of rich and the poor,of the developed and underdeveloped,but a Europe of equals,Albanians
may enter it as a united nation,and the ethnic territories in which they live as united regions.Because,they can only that
way overcome their economic backwardness in which they are today.By dividing the Albanian people,Europe has
exhausted its national energies;by cutting Albanian territories into main states,Europe has tragically wrinkled the abilities
of the development of Albanians,because it has thus separated a natural,ethnic,economic,and cultural wholeness,ad thus
has unabled them for existence,and most of all,for well - being.Because in that way it cut the connection of the parts that
made that natural,ethnic,economic,trade,and cultural wholeness,because in this way it separated the regions which
depended on each other for centuries.Today's backwardness economically and socially almost dramatic for the
Albanian people in essence is a consequence of its previous divison.The economic development and,at last,the general
progress of the Albanian people,therefore,depends on the unification of the Albanian people - in the Europe of peoples,
respectively on the unification of the Albanian territories,meaning the regions with ethnic identity - in Europe of regions.