TIRANA, Sept 2 /ATA/-By Maela Marini/ – Prime Minister Edi Rama said Friday that the leaders of the Open Balkan countries will formally ask the European Union for additional financial assistance to purchase electricity and cope with the energy crisis in the coming months.
Speaking at a joint press conference after the Open Balkan summit in Belgrade, PM Rama noted that “the EU is now considering plans to support countries with extra funding so that they could deal with madness, because it is impossible to add the cost to the countries and the consumers.”
“We have our very modest budgets. The three of us need to address to Brussels and all the EU member states to ask them provide same to our countries, an additional financial assistance in addition to our budgetary support,” PM Rama said.
“I avail myself of the opportunity to renew the appeal to the EU not do the shame it did during the pandemic with us. They all remember very well how the Balkan countries were forced to run to China, Russia, and Turkey to start the rescue operation of nurses and doctors for vaccination. The EU closed itself and saw only within the walls of its own castle. And the leaders of the EU have accepted that this was a shame, although not openly, yet they have accepted it. Even at the talks at the European Council, the president of France underlined that we need a new European community, a strategic union, in order not to repeat the situation that happened with the pandemic,” Rama said.
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