
Until yesterday evening, November 3, Edi Rama was hoping.
For two weeks, he personally, Foreign Minister Ferit Hoxha, and foreign friends of the Albanian prime minister have been trying to convince the Enlargement Directorate of the European Commission to remove the case of Belinda Balluku from the Annual Report.
A diplomatic source told Hashtag.al that two European governments are aware of the efforts of Rama and his network of lobbyists, while on Tuesday evening some of them were contacted and given the message that they could be going down the wrong path by favoring Edi Rama.
The same diplomatic source said that for several weeks, Edi Rama has cooled relations and reduced contacts with Marta Kos; the latter may have previously been the subject of criticism from European governments for favoring Edi Rama.
For his part, Albanian Foreign Minister Ferit Hoxha has understood in meetings with representatives of several European countries that the Albanian government is under constant surveillance, especially on 3 issues:
a) The involvement of government members (and their families) in drug trafficking
b) The implications of government members (and their families) with the AKSHI-Agasi dossier
c) Balluku file