Rama: For years we have been waiting for the "bride" from Brussels, but she never came
The Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama, who is visiting Amsterdam, in a conversation at the famous "De Balie" center, he also talked about "negotiations with the EU and the non-opening of negotiations for Albania and North Macedonia".
And this time, with his famous vocabulary, when asked "what is happening between Albania and the EU", he says that the Albanians have been waiting for the bride from Brussels to come, not for one, but for several years, but she never came.
- We continued to organize weddings, big weddings with music. We waited for the bride to come from Brussels, not one, not two, not three, but many years, but she never came. If he comes to marry us without music and immediately in bed and we have children, let him come. I say it with humor, but imagine when you want to get married seriously and she never shows up, Rama said according to Ora News.
He is still of the opinion that the negotiations should have started several years ago, maybe it will be next year, but he adds, "we will not lose sleep over it".
- I don't know, but how many times there are internal problems, they talk about a gun here, about a mafia there, about an Albanian here, about some guys growing marijuana in the southern part of Albania or Rotterdam. So it's an internal process of keeping away. It has nothing to do with what we do, he pointed out.
According to Rama, the EU has a European Commission which is "paid from EU funds, the biggest bureaucratic machinery in the whole world" which monitors every country 24 hours a day and then prepares reports on the candidate countries to present to the member states and later say what should be done.
- It is not Bulgaria in question, but the EU, the way it works, which is outdated and which needs to be changed. One country holding two other countries hostage is a mistake, Rama said.