“I love Alexander the Great, we all love him but I don’t care where he was born and I don’t pretend that as an Albanian I inherited his genes” he said Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, during the second EU-Albania intergovernmental conference on the sidelines of the EU General Affairs Council in Luxembourg.

Edi Rama at the press conference in Luxembourg referred to both Greek friends as to Alexander the Great, but also in the steps taken by the EU towards the states that wish to join the EU.

“Preventing “Macedonia” and then North Macedonia, and we hope that there will be no South Macedonia to do this, does a great harm to a nation. It does a lot of harm to the people, it does a lot of harm to the region,” he said.

Edi Rama argued that “we already have many Albanians pretending that Napoleon was Albanian. Do you want us to open a bilateral issue with France over this? Because then there will be a bilateral conflict over Corsica. And then it will never end. You know, Einstein was Albanian. What should we do?’ Eddie Rama added.

“Let countries grow, let countries do their jobs, let countries build institutions,” Rama said, adding, “and then when it’s time for them to join, say no, I don’t like your name, but at least you have them. give everything to function as a member state”.

“But not when the countries need the know-how, when they need the help, when they need the support because then you have a country where 28 years ago it was an undisputed Euro-Atlantic community and look today who is the most liked politician in Macedonia, in North Macedonia or anything … Because I don’t want to receive a phone call now from my Greek friends to say, you said Macedonia. No. It’s north,” he concluded.