Renzi in Tirana posts hug with Macron: "Leader who believes in a stronger Europe"

"Yesterday, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama knelt before Meloni and I must say he did well: she gave him almost a billion euros for a migrant center that serves no purpose. Albania is cashing in and saying thanks. With me, however, there was no bowing but a healthy meeting/clash between old friends", wrote the leader of Italia Viva, Matteo Renzi , on X, publishing a video of this morning's meeting in Tirana with the Albanian Prime Minister on the occasion of the 'Future Investment Initiative' (FII) event.

Yesterday in Tirana the meeting between Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, Donald Tusk and Volodymyr Zelensky took place, without Giorgia Meloni . The leaders of France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Poland met with the Ukrainian president and together they heard from the president of the United States. The photo of the meeting was released by the Ukrainian presidency. Like that of Kiev, Italy does not appear. A week ago it was the prime minister who decided not to travel to Ukraine, yesterday instead she was a few meters away.

For Renzi, the migrant center operation wanted by Meloni is "pure propaganda that costs the Italian taxpayer a lot and solves nothing. But this is a problem of internal politics, ours: the friendship between Italy and Albania is bigger than any controversy - the leader of Italia Viva writes again - Together with my friend Yasir Al-Rumayyan , governor of the Pif and Chairman of FII, we then embraced the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron , a leader who believes in a stronger and more united Europe. And I am happy that in politics the stories, the governments, the dynamics change. But human relationships remain. Which for me are the most important thing of all", concludes the leader of Iv.