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Berisha remembers the exodus of Albanians/ "Italy gave us extraordinary help"

2025-02-09 14:37:00, Politikë CNA
Berisha remembers the exodus of Albanians/ "Italy gave us extraordinary
Chairman of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha

The leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, at a meeting with immigrants in Rome recalled the exodus of Albanians.

Berisha said that Italy provided Albania with extraordinary assistance amounting to billions of euros.

He mentioned several prominent figures in Italian politics, while thanking the neighboring country for its support for the Albanian people.

“After the fall of the Iron Curtain, like the one after the death of our eternal leader, Skanderbeg, a greater wave of emigration would flee to Italy. An Italian journalist at the time spoke of people coming from a ghost people. I don’t know the motives for which he said that, but I know that he almost didn’t exaggerate anything. Because at that time we were the most exhausted people on the planet from the Stalinist dictatorship of the carnage of class warfare, from the tyranny of hyper-collectivization and misery, from the dictatorship of isolation and indoctrination.

But my friends, those ghost Albanians of that time and others who arrived later, with sacrifices, work, honesty, wisdom, devotion, proved themselves in this country as skilled workers, successful entrepreneurs, loyal partners, excellent students, artists, scientists, great singers, whose success, on their soil, makes the Italian nation proud, the Albanian nation proud.

God bless Italy, this great nation.

In the last 34 years, Italy has given Albania an extraordinary assistance that goes into billions of euros. Italy is the place where Albanians learned more than anywhere else. Albanians brought to their country thousands of new people with whom they transformed Albania. Therefore, I want to humble myself with the greatest gratitude before this friendly nation, before all the Italians who welcomed, employed and work with Albanians.

I have a special gratitude for the state authorities of this country, from Andreotti to the immortal Silvio Berlusconi. From Tatarella to Fini, Butilione and President Tajani and my friends in Forza Italia. I never forget my meetings with Silvio Berlusconi. In every meeting he would tell me, Sali, we have no problem with the Albanians, they are excellent.

"With the Italian government, we have signed hundreds of cooperation agreements in all fields, but we have also undertaken ventures of strategic importance for Europe, such as the TAP gas pipeline. Future projects will be even bigger," the former prime minister emphasized./ CNA





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