Faced with difficulties during an interview at the Euronews tourism summit, Edi Rama tried to evade the question by saying that in a few days all the documents, decisions and expertise of architects and environmental engineers for the Zvërnec project will be published.
Asked by the panel leader how the approach of Donald Trump's son-in-law to Albania was made, the prime minister said that this project was born at a time when it was not known whether Trump would return to the presidency, or end up in prison. And to stick to the line that this was a decision without any political calculation, but simply for the good of Albania's development, he said that the decision on the project will be taken in the coming days, after every document and environmental assessment has been made transparent. "This will be a procedure and not a decision made under pressure from the street or ideologizing," he said.
So in a word, he played the role of someone who does not personally decide and does not make his own political calculations, but listens to specialists.
But Rama's soft approach, at a gathering like the tourism summit organized by Euronews, contradicts the non-negotiable bet he made a short while ago when he declared that if he were prime minister, Kushner would build, with or without grace.
During a conversation with British journalist Aris Roussinos for TheUnherd.com (see below), Rama said that Ivanka and Jared Kushner's plan would not be suspended, proving that he had no intention of going against Trump's interests.
"I strongly believe that the project will completely close this chapter, because it will be beautiful,"
the prime minister said, also mentioning the public consultation.
So it is clear that neither what he said at the Euronews summit nor what he promised on the Besa platform have any value. The yes for Kushner and Ivanka is worth much more than the over 100 thousand Albanians who were forced to take to the streets.
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