A few days ago, France's largest newspaper, Le Monde, published a bleak report highlighting that most young people in the Kukës region want to leave for England.
The report stressed that none of the measures undertaken, even those financed with British taxpayers' money, have had any effect in stopping the exodus toward the UK.
There was no reaction to this grim report.
Yet today, Edi Rama found time to respond to the UK Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, who stated that around 700 Albanian families living on British taxpayer-funded assistance will be deported.
The "global leader" reminded the British minister that the UK has other challenges after leaving the EU (Brexit), rather than dealing with immigration issues, which, according to him, he has already curbed.
But this is a major deception, not only because Le Monde says so or because every survey in Albania confirms it.
Above all, partner agencies have discovered that although one migration route to the UK has been blocked, others have opened.
"It is deeply disappointing to hear the UK Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, cite 'around 700 Albanian families' living in taxpayer-funded accommodation after failed asylum claims as justification for restarting family returns.
How can a Labour Home Secretary so unconvincingly repeat the rhetoric of the populist far-right, and single out 700 Albanian families, a statistical drop in the ocean of Britain's post-Brexit challenges, at a time when the United Kingdom and Albania have built one of Europe's most successful partnerships against illegal migration?" Rama wrote.
It is worth noting that he has never commented on the fact that more than 1 million Albanians have left for the Schengen area alone in the past ten years.
If you add the number of those who have emigrated to other countries, then the scale of the exodus becomes biblical.
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