Albanian PM Edi Rama on Putin, Macron, and combating corruption

Edi sounds so down to earth and real!

Some great analogies in that PM. Some marriages do indeed work eh.

‘Something that cannot happen anywhere else, but can happen only in the Balkans - you go to bury your father and you become Minister of Culture’.. as someone from the Balkans, I laughed hard😂

Rory... get sir John major. Mark Rutte. Gerard schroeder.

Can you try and interview Ruth Davidson?

Gents, you really need to stop saying extraordinary so much

That was outstanding! Thank you to PM Rama for taking his time to come on and share with us.

Interesting guy.

OMG I want to live in Albania - this PM is amazing. A leader who is honest, has a sense of humour, open, realistic, an artist, a realist. What a guy!

The Prime Minister's explanation of the statecraft needed to deal with Serbia wisely was educational and highly appreciated. Thank you!

Been meaning to find these chats in a while, Rory and Ally. Hi Ally again - remember me?
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Love this podcast chaps,keep up the good work.Alistair can I ask your views on Aljazeera's latest investigative work on the Labour Files please

Such an interesting interview. Thank you. I‘ve learnt a lot about Albania

Might I suggest Mhairi Black, a fellow Scot for interview. Great to see such political passion from one so young.

The Picasso of Politics, his book of his doodles should be called, if... 🙂

Albania naming the street where the russian embassy was situated to free Ukraine had me in tears!

I think he's the first sensible politician I've heard speak on the east of Europe, not that I've heard many. He sounds interesting, quiet likeable.

Not sure why but I find the talk of Rory typical of new breed of conservative political party , missing the big picture . He mentions significant corruption and crime in Albania even he spent time in Montenegro and region where Albanians are everywhere . Had he red a bit more and paid attention to what Prime-minister said he would have known that Albania was the north Corea of Europe under communism ! Further , after 90s the state failed completely and in 97 total caos broke ! Since then Albania has improved significantly and dies not deserve the description as very corrupt and organised crime ! Otherwise Rory need to state the same about Italy ! Labelling a country as corrupt requires a clear perspective ! What gets me is that Albania’s crime is being used as scapegoat in British politics to justify the failure of immigration policy of tories ! Albania’s crime is no exception to any other crime but we do not hear other nations being labelled. The issue is that we honest and hard working Albanians are paying e very dear price for being labelled and so are the hard working Albanians in the Balkans ! Are we Albanians so bad as to cause terrorism , kill with polonium in London, control mega financial crimes ! Crime does not të present nation as otherwise we have to drop being called humans any more !

The most corrupt and evil Albanian leader of the post-communist era in Albania. A person that has and is consciously working to depopulate our country.

Sad that it has been 12 years under his autocracy and another 4 are possible. An autocrat with the majority of his ministers and directors in prison and courts.

A true clown that only is good at making jokes for the international community as noone in Albanian gives a horse crap about what he says.

In Albanian we have a very famous saying,
Cfar rrot Kari!
This guy is a dick!
For god sakes!
Why couldn’t we have Albion Kurti!
We have this dick instead!

what you guys dont realize is that Edi Rama (along with 99% of Albanian politicians) is the heads of all organized crime in the country. Stop idolizing these men.

Practically the dude keeps on promoting himself.

Edi Rama is Serbia's spokesman. He is a complete idiot who works agains national interests. He is on the way of becoming a dictator. His best friends are dictators like Vucic, Erdogan and Orban.