Albanians in a china shop

By staging riots during Sunday's parliamentary elections, Macedonia's Albanian minority has brought affliction upon the entire country, Wolfgang Greber writes. "The OSCE has determined that the violence took place exclusively in Albanian-dominated regions." For Greber, the violence at the polls "can only harm ... the fragile country, which already has its hands full with a weak economy, a precarious ethnic mix and hostile neighbours. Once more, Skopje's prospects for EU accession are on ice. ... One thing is clear: the Albanians have have ransacked the country's democratic china shop. 2.1 million people live in Macedonia. With its feuds, the conflict-ridden Albanian minority (around 25 percent) follows the Balkan tradition of conflict to a T, showing just how far the country is from being ready to join Europe."

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