Rama celebrating his own goal

Since midday last Monday, Greek-Albanian politician Fredi Beleri has been free to carry out his duties as a representative of Greece in the European Parliament. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, for his part, may believe that he "ended" Beleri politically.

What he actually did was shoot himself in the foot, and not just because his antics eroded Greek-Albanian relations and took them back to the lows of the 1990s when, under the administration of Sali Berisha, officials of the Greek minority there were being dragged through the courts.

Rama is also doing his country harm by degrading the image of an "independent" institution, namely the Special Anti-Corruption Structure (SPAK), which was formed at the behest of the Europeans and the Americans as part of reforms of the justice system, which is one of the key requirements for Albania's induction into the European Union....