Edi Rama kneels in front of Giorgia Meloni in Tirana: Irony and Intesa Italia-Albania at the top of CPE

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By John

On his knees from his friend Giorgia Melonias had already happened in United Arab Emirates some time ago. Rama Edidespite the pouring rain And the long wait, yesterday he did not lose his humor and chose to welcome the Italian premier a Tyrane With one of his finds: kneeling with his hands on her in front of her as a sign of extreme gallantry. And probably also in accordance with aAlliance between Italy and Albania that, from Migrant dossier at the Economic partnershipflies to swollen sails.

The curtain took place on the occasion of the arrivals of the over forty leaders to summit of the European political communityorganized a Piazza Skanderbegheart of the Albanian capital. Rama – he wore sneakers with the CPE logo, one Yellow-blue star – he waited as per practice his guests, accompanying them one by one to Theater of the Opera where the show that preceded the summit took place. Meloni was among the last to arrive. Rama was waiting for it on red carpet with a large smile. Then he knelt down. “No, come on,” the Prime Minister laughed by replicating with a joke: “Do it when we are alone …”. The exchange, all on the edge of irony, was mentioned by the premier also at the beginning of his speech at the plenary session of the summit.

Meloni, during his speech, congratulated Rama for the clear victory in the elections, reiterating one of the priorities of the Italian foreign policy: theEU enlargement not only to Ukraine but also to Western Balkans. “It is a strategic investment” for Europe, has marked the premier.

Rama and Meloni, in the afternoon, also had a bilateral on the sidelines of the CPE meeting. And among the topics addressed there was that ofImplementation of the Italia-Albania protocol on repatriations. On centers “Let’s go on as promised,” Meloni underlined to journalists, however, explaining that he did not have time to go to structures built by the Italian state At seventy kilometers from Tirana. In the meantime, in Italy, Rama’s gesture has not gone unnoticed. «It seems to me the photograph of one Exchange of interests theatrically represented», Attacked Nicola Fratoianni of AVS.