Macedonian Euro-integrative Zen Buddhism

Sasho Ordanoski. / Photo: Free Press

To follow the Macedonian Euro-integration path professionally in the last two or three decades is a devilishly ungrateful thing. Disappointments and regressions are a hundred times more common than the rare occasions for joy and celebration of a small step in a progressive direction. Well, even when there is, you need to be an expert in diplomatic alchemical formulas to produce an ounce of silver from a ton of sheet metal, because even if you take a short nap, the positive news can go unnoticed before you have to go again. are the entrails in the dump of European political hypocrisy adorned with baroque and covered with layers of powder, in the absence of ordinary soap to maintain the elementary moral-political hygiene.

Twenty years ago, a Center for Zen Buddhism had to open in Brussels, at the EU Enlargement Directorate, with a special program for spiritual meditations that would treat candidates for entry into the Union to reduce stress and frustration. Either that - or to set up a special European fund to use the services of the Brussels Red Light District (Macedonian translation: "behind the MTV building") to reimburse the costs of treating the Euro-integration depression.

Anyone who has not become a cynic in the meantime should check the material from which their nerves are made: either steel or some kind of artificial synthetics that, in an excessive layer, would destroy even the most resistant wildlife in the dark depths of the oceans, where which is the sunken European integration strategy.

There is an alternative to that: to develop resentment and anti-European attitudes that will inflame the public, on social networks, after domestic celebrations, in bars and in the media (which is often the same) and after press conferences, and with a lot of mention all the near and far relatives of the "whore Europe", that Mother of all hypocrisy, injustice, meanness and defeat. So it is easier, almost without risk: 99 out of 100 cases you will be right, and when something good happens, no one will notice that you are wrong. It will be short-lived, Europe itself will soon be denied and - the spitting match can be resumed. Clean work.

Most importantly (and most annoyingly all these years!), You will rarely find an EU official who, in an attack on rare honesty, will not admit that you are right. The policy of the European Union operates according to the principle of infinite tides in the pursuit of the interests of the Union, patiently waiting for the "quiet water" to knock down the "rocks" that stand in the way of the general consensus. Like children on the beach building sand castles to the next tide.

(Unlike what is seen in Europe, the Americans enter the shore with excavators and chop the rocks before the next tide and realize that there is nothing to undermine… But that is another story.)

So, it is time for again, at least a few months of Macedonian Euro-integration cooling. Sofia is in charge of providing daily entertainment, while we put on our fishing boots again to step on the dump of European integration policy. Welcome, all comments are allowed for national consolation and restoration of lost peace… While we wait for the excavator.

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