The Italian journalist Gerardo Greco, the author of the interview with the Albanian Prime Minister published on May 24, 2024 in the newspaper "La Repubblica" has responded yesterday evening with Edi Rama regarding his article which, after being taken by other Italian media, was interpreted according to the line of their editorial.
This conversation was interpreted with titles like 'Rama changes his mind', 'Rama drops Melon'. In response, Greco says that he has remained true to Rama's words and that in reality they are within the words.
Gerardo Greco's reply: " It is true, Prime Minister Rama is a good guest. We met in Tirana in a meeting for almost 1 hour before a coffee. We definitely talked about the immigrant centers in Albania, but also about the religion and the history of Albania. At the end of our dialogue I obviously asked Rama if I could write about it and he immediately said yes. No one intends to put Prime Minister Rama in the quagmire of Italian politics, but he himself claims that the problem will be the operation of the Shengjin center with Italian procedures and European rules. In thojza is the meaning of our pleasant conversation that has been faithfully reported in writing .
In yesterday's article "La Repubblica" quotes Rama when he writes that the Albanian prime minister has questioned the functioning of the agreement for immigrants in Gjadër due to legal procedures, the Matei plan to send money and economic cooperation with African countries, but above all they refer to Rama who said that in fact this migrant crisis in Italy would be managed very well by Massimo D'Alema, a former Italian prime minister from 1998-2000 who managed the migrant crisis with Albania.
For the alienation of what was written, Rama reacted through a post on the X social network. But in a long post on 'X', Prime Minister Rama denies everything that was written.
He says that he has not even changed his mind about the construction of the centers and that he did not give an interview but talked with a friend, while he also denies the context given to his words about D'Aleman.
'No, I have not changed my mind, nor have I given an interview. I made the Albanian who practices his ancient religion of hospitality – the Albanian's house is God and friend – offering a coffee to some good friends who had come to Tirana from Italy. We talked about many things in a nice friendly atmosphere and, of course, also about the agreement and the history of clandestine immigration from Albania to Italy, which the D'Alema government managed to put an end to with logic and strategic foresight. I never thought that I would end up once again in the mud of the Italian political war, quoting me with words that I never said, such as "it will be a failure" or "it would take D'Alema" under the title "Rama gives up Meloni", where I don't find myself at all.'- writes Rama.
Rama repeats that even if he had to go back 100 times, he would make the agreement with Italy and no other country.
"Even if I could go back a hundred times, I would still make the agreement for migrants with Italy and with no other country. I have always said that, in my opinion, it is something new that must pass the test of reality. Then, if for a photo published from a construction site in the first hours of work, accompanied by the title "800 million wasted", then we live in a parallel world and nothing can bring us closer to the massive challenge of illegal migration, writes Rama.
Prime Minister Rama further says that Europe must unite to simultaneously fight the criminal trafficking of the poor and the demographic winter that increasingly threatens its future.