EXCLUSIVE/ Edi Rama’s secret meeting in the Netherlands, where Albania’s fate was decided

Immediately after President Ilir Meta’s inaugural ceremony, on July 24, Premier Edi Rama took the charter for a “private” midnight flight to Amsterdam.

It was reported that the Prime Minister had hired a charter for the flight out of the official agenda, but later his press office, forced to confirm the news after the incident with the Dutch police, announced that Rama had taken a flight with a low cost airline.

It was a mere coincidence that revealed the midnight flight of the Albanian Prime Minister. A traveler in the airport witnessed and photographed the moments when the Dutch authorities accompanied Rama for verification. After the revelation of the flight that was kept secret till the last moment, the Premier’s office hurried to clarify it was “only a private visit”.

All the media and the public opinion focused only on the “incident” with the Dutch authorities and later it was forgotten. But, why did Edi Rama really went to the Netherlands at midnight and was that “only a private visit” as his office said?

SYRI.net has learnt from sources that the mysterious travel was not at all for private affairs, but for a broader meeting with famous international names, where it was discussed and decided for Albania’s fate not only for the four years or Rama’s second mandate but also for the decades to come.

It was a meeting organized according to the “Masonic” methodology, where very powerful individuals from politics, finance and lobbying from the whole Europe took part. Former British Premier Tony Blair, also present, was one of the organizers of the meeting.

We did not publish the information as soon as we learnt it, because it was almost impossible to receive details, but quite “suddenly”, yesterday, to our aid came Alistair Campbell, Rama’s British “secret” aide from the time of opposition and right hand of Blair.

In a long article praising Albania under Rama’s lead, published in his blog and in The New European, unintentionally or not, he reveals and confirms the secret meeting, where he was present too.

This is what Campbell writes:

“As for my own involvement here, which now goes back six or seven years, Edi Rama told the story at a dinner last week, where he gathered a group of former Prime Ministers from around Europe, current World Bank advisers, academics, philanthropic organisations, development experts, and communications and strategy advisers, to discuss plans for his second term, having just secured an even bigger mandate than first time round four years ago”.

So, a week ago, a time that corresponds to Rama’s mysterious travel to the Netherlands, a huge group of European VIPs, politicians, philanthropist billionaires, prominent experts of economy and others gathered and talked about Albania’s fate during Rama’s second mandate.

Why was this very important meeting kept hidden to the Albanian public? Since when Albanian Premier’s midnight flights to decide on Albania’s fate are “private agenda”?

A certain response to many questions and doubts is given from Campbell among the lines of his article:

“There is a reason all these outside experts from around the world volunteered to come to Rama’s second term brainstorm. This is a really important, historically volatile, region, and he an important leader within it. Europe’s most serious leader, Angela Merkel, has taken a close interest and has played an active part in encouraging the rapprochement between Albania and Serbia”.

It appears the meeting has defined definitely the lines of the Albanian government for the next four years and the plan “Ex-Yugoslavia plus Albania” has been decided already.

That’s all for now for Rama’s secret meeting for Albania’s fate, waiting for the Prime Minister to give explanations to the parliament and, in particular, to the Albanian people, about what was actually decided there and who were namely these former Premiers, experts and philanthropists “well known worldwide” that have decided for our future.

SYRI.net