Albania’s prime minister, Edi Rama, wants to be the man who puts his country on the path to European Union membership, but he is facing two major problems. Among European leaders, he has carved out a reputation as an unorthodox charmer since he came to power in 2013. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Part of a work by Edi Rama at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Rama names Tony Blair as his main political inspiration, and engaged Campbell as a political consultant. At an EU summit in Sofia last year, Rama and France’s Emmanuel Macron got into a tense argument over the accession timetable.

Source: The Guardian June 10, 2019 13:49 UTC