The Constitutional Court has annulled the Tetovo municipality's 2007 decision to rename streets, squares and bridges - including names connected to Marshal Tito. The reaction from the ranks of DUI was sharp, and Bujar Osmani described the day as "a black day for Albanians."

The decision, reached by a majority of votes in the court, has reopened one of the most delicate topics in the country - who decides what the streets and squares are called in places where different communities live. Behind the question of names always stands a bigger question of identity, symbols, and who feels "at home" in their own town.

The rhetoric of a "black day" is a familiar Balkan measure - when a decision doesn't go your way, it immediately becomes an attack on the whole community. But it's worth asking: is the annulment of a municipal decision from almost two decades ago really an attack on all Albanians, or is it a legal question about jurisdiction being turned into political fuel?

There are no innocent sides here. Renaming streets after political figures has always been a way for those in power to stamp their mark on the space - both the left and the right do it when they reach power. The question the residents of Tetovo rarely get is a different one: did anyone ever ask them what they want their street to be called, or are the decisions about it always made over their heads, in courtrooms and party headquarters?