Rama doesn’t care about Albania’s EU accession, he only cares about extending his power

The veteran commentator opens his March 17 broadcast with a sweeping indictment of a prime minister he says has traded Albania’s European future for his own political survival.

By Adi Krasta (Tirana)

Welcome to the program. Who knows what those hundreds of demonstrators are thinking now — those who gathered in that distant time to force Albanian Prime Minister Rama to abandon the chemical weapons deal, even though they had no idea what would happen regarding their disposal, of course.

It was a political issue, but above all a technological one.

They considered, with a kind of naivety, that they had frightened the Prime Minister. They had not understood at the time that he had merely made a small adjustment to his trajectory — one which in practice only began its serious decline much later.

Why did those people who gathered in the square at the time not consider the destruction of the National Theatre scandalous, terrible, and worth assembling over — not the destruction of the building, but the destructive concept directed at Albania’s best-established values? Why do they not consider the actions of Prime Minister Rama today worthy — not only of gathering and protesting, but of protesting loudly and even with a deadline, with a time limit?

Let me tell you in just 23 seconds what is happening with Albanian Prime Minister Rama. He, in the face of strong accusations made in Kosovo — but not only there — that he has symbiotic common interests with President Vučić, publishes an article in which he asks the European Union for Albania and Serbia to enter as dismembered countries, without commissioners and without value, without weight in the European Union — solely and only in order to preserve their personal power.

Is it a gaffe, analysts ask?

No, it is carefully calculated.

He has no interest in Albania’s EU accession. He is only interested in extending his own power.

Precisely in the midst of accusations that he is dismantling the justice system, he forces parliament and forces the mandates committee not to relinquish the mandate of Deputy Prime Minister Ms. Balluku — so as to leave no room for SPAK to continue its work.

And above all, at the very moment when the Prime Minister’s conduct toward journalists and the media is alleged to be not only selective — wearing sixteen faces — but toward his opponents is unhinged, harsh, uncontrolled, and unacceptable.

And it is not only Ambrozia Meta who destroys the Prime Minister’s nerves. It appears it is also Syri — exactly as it was with Agoni. Regarding which he spoke publicly, and did so to his great cost, because ICSID forced Albania to pay 130 million.

And it appears things could go the same way now, given that he cannot restrain himself from attacking opposition media in this country.

Because in this very bleak, restless, destabilized Albania, to hold an opposition position and have the Prime Minister do nothing to you — is an extraordinary luxury.

Amid all this landscape, the German approach has changed — not necessarily that of the ambassador here, although I am convinced his has changed too — but that of the institutions and those who lead in Germany.

This is the opening monologue of the Adi Krasta Show, aired on 17 March 2026 on Syri TV. The program is hosted by veteran Albanian journalist and commentator Adi Krasta and airs on Syri TV. The monologue was delivered live at the top of the broadcast. Syri TV is an opposition-aligned channel and this is a live broadcast monologue, not analytical reporting. It is offered to readers as a primary document of how Albania’s opposition media is framing the moment, not as the Tirana Examiner’s own assessment.