Prime Minister Edi Rama said in his speech at the opening of Europe Week that, for Albanians, Europe remains both a dream and a promised land because of the country\u2019s long isolation from the rest of the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor us Albanians, Europe remains, even in these gloomy times, what it was when it was beyond our reach, except through those faint signals that illegal television broadcasts brought from outside Albania onto our TV screens. For us, Europe remains a dream and a promised land, an inalienable national legacy and an unchanging political mission. Not because we are na\u00efve, nor because we have illusions, but because we know very well \u2014 better than anyone else on this continent \u2014 what it means to live isolated and surrounded by walls built to protect us from Europe,\u201d Rama said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prime Minister Edi Rama said in his speech at the opening of Europe Week that, for Albanians, Europe remains both a dream and a promised land because of the country\u2019s long isolation from the rest of the world. \u201cFor us Albanians, Europe remains, even in these gloomy times, what it was when it was beyond […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":84441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,1803],"tags":[243,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n