On Friday, Prime Minister Edi Rama invited Polish entrepreneurs to invest in Albania with the argument that it is “never boring”:
In Albania you are never bored, something that cannot be said about Poland are other EU countries. I assure you that there is nobody that doesn’t return to Albanian once he has come here.
This is not the first time that Rama uses the argument that other European countries are boring. In an interview from June for the Swiss Das Magazin, Rama stated:
Compared with our region, Switzerland is boring, boring to death.
This idea of the Prime Minister shows his enormous lack of understanding and knowledge.
First, he doesn’t understand what businesses and serious investors are and the conditions investors seek in order to invest, risk their money, and spend their efforts and sweat. He sees them as explorers looking for exotic countries, in search for the next unexpected adventure, not as serious people that look for security, guarantees, and calculable risk.
Second, it shows that the Prime Minister has completely lost touch with the reality of the country, especially with the daily lives of simple citizens.
Albania is not a boring country if you’re a millionaire and easily spend money like himself or his clients. But it’s a terribly “boring” country the more than 30% of the population that lives in extreme poverty.
For those and for hundreds of thousands of others, Albania is not only a boring country but is a country that bring despair, disappointment, pain, and lack of possibilities for themselves and their children.
The Prime Minister needs to know that the majority of Albanians want to leave the country that he looks at just like the wealthy around the globe look at an exotic place.
