Military maneuvers planned this year, trade agreement and diplomatic meetings: the rapprochement initiated in recent months also allows London to compete with the European Union in a candidate state for membership, notes this conservative newspaper.
“We have a good laugh together”, says Edi Rama on a daily basis The Times. The Albanian Prime Minister and his British counterpart, Boris Johnson, former mayors of the capitals of their respective countries, “get along well”, assures the socialist. A complicity illustrated by the recent merger between London and Tirana, which the London newspaper echoes.
This Monday, January 10, Sir Stuart Peach, former senior NATO military official and UK special envoy to the Balkans, met Foreign Minister Olta Xhacka. On the agenda: renewed tensions in the region, “Powered by Russia”, notes The Times. “I salute the stabilizing role of Albania”, said the British diplomat on this occasion.
Because unlike its neighbors, “Who sometimes give in to the sirens of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping for lack of being able to quickly enter the European Union (EU)”, Albania remains “Devoted to the Euro-Atlantic area”.
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