Rama posts this article for Albania, published in the Italian newspaper “La Repubblica”

Prime Minister Edi Rama has published today on the social Facebook network, a text published in the Italian newspaper “La Repubblica” called “Turbo Albania”, which speaks of developments and transformations that have occurred and are still expected to occur in our country.

<x0.>Good morning, and I wish you a good day with this attractive article for Albania published in one of the most important Italian newspapers”, writes Prime Minister Rama, who then brings the full script of “La Repubblica”

YOU RBO ALBANIA

Blue neon languages paint heavy concrete buildings. A flock of hair in a shocking fex pink in the gray permanent of a lady dressed in a red cherry suit, which sits in a bar of coffee. And when the sun sets, the marble steps of State University with the state's stately appearance of fascist architecture are transformed into a stage for teenage cycling.

Tirana is a 20-year-old girl who, to imitate her older sisters, European capitals, exaggerates with the toilet just to stand out. After all, Albania has long been looking toward the West, fuelling the dream of entering Europe.

So true is that Albanians have accelerated steps to complete all the homework that the European Commission has assigned them as the only condition to pass the EU entry exam. For example, the country has entrusted one of the architect's stars, Stefano Boer, the capital's urban plan (so that Tirana will have its Vertic Forest by 2030), while a strong reform of justice is aimed at bringing corrupt judges and politicians to jail.

Then there is the economy, which has taken off not only thanks to a boom of foreign investors who choose Albania because here they pay only 15% taxes and 400 euros in salaries for workers, but also thanks to an explosion tourism that has attracted the attention of major Italian field actors such as Alpitiour since this year has started two cultural tours in Albania. Because while in the south, between Dhermi and Ksamil, Albania boasts white sandy beaches and crystal sea, in other interior areas it has mysterious stories to tell: north, among the lost villages of the cursed mountain, it can happen to meet a “Burneshe”, a girl or a woman with a bandaged breast, with its tender appearance and short hair, and a rifle on her shoulder. She has sworn before 12 tribal leaders that she will abandon her feminine aspect in exchange for their respect.

It seems possible that in a vast territory the size of Sicily can co-exist an ancient and bloody code like the Kanun (the obligation to take the family's revenge) with its fifth party “, with techno music, which per year lifelives Vuno's wildlife camps.

This controversy the country's capital tries to absorb through an extraordinary spirit “punk”, a taste for anything that is extensive, and a disturbing character. It is certain that Albanians have not won these qualities at group “The Clan” concerts. At the time, their absence was fully justified because it did not allow the 50-year-old iron curtain to be allowed to be among the most cruel that Communism could build under Enver Hoxha's dictatorship. He took power in the post-World War II period, and in a short time he broke relations with all -- Slavs, Russians, Chinese Communists, burning every bridge of communication with the rest of the world and preparing for an imaginary holiday. Albania's lush nature filled it with 170 thousand bunkers, some of which are now adapted as small biological products stores, strange hotels, raw materials for fantasy walls, but most of them remain (just) pending erosion. In the time of Communism, people had to hide inside in the event of enemy bombings. He had created and five cities-bunker: the largest, carried under a hill in Tirana, would serve as a shelter for Enver Hoxha in case of invasion, and had five underground floors and 102 rooms.

Three years ago, agency Ansa's correspondent for the Balkans, Carlo Bollino, presented a project to transform that bunker into a museum to show the world the mystery of communism: each room is dedicated to a particular aspect of the life of the time, since the disinfectant shower for political prisoners, to the three-vest food, to torture. The museum is called BunkArt, and CNN has listed it this year among the 17 countries to visit. Borino, who has already become Albanian citizens, is the artistic director of this museum. And down here, the soldiers lived like they were on a submarine, and by 2000 this facility was used for military training”.

Albania gets even more interesting if you visit it with locals (for the most part that nearly all Albanians speak Italian), because a middle - aged man with good memories can describe the 1995 panic when it was thought Americans could attack the country. It was a false alarm, but I came up with the gray”. Then he will tell you how, after the regime collapsed, the most urgent needs of the people were two: “Mercedes and home”. So if in the early '90s the cars that were flowing were 17, today they are 170 thousand. While giving the wheel very carelessly (as it is hard for Italian car insurance agencies to want to cover and Albania), Albanians continue to display an integral religious devotion in their cars that have “surveying” in one of the millions of scattered washing machines throughout the country, which are the made-up points for «car washing, mostly equipped with a rag and pipe.

Fifty years of Communism are not forgotten overnight, and therefore the process of wiping out memory and guilt are still there, represented symbolically by the statue of Stalin covered in a cloth and forgotten in the back of the National Museum, pending accession. The inherited complex psychology was shaken by the colors and restructuring of buildings, by modern and voice architects who conquered the Block, a neighbourhood where only the governing classes once had access, all these changes that a rebel and intellectual artist asked for, Edi Rama.

Prime Minister and former mayor of the city, whose mandate was reconfirmed on 25 June.

Rama gave free rein to the authors to erase the grey palaces and replace them with color and fetished shapes, while extravagant artists have created permanent installations in all neighborhoods. Even in the prime minister's court, a psychdelical mushroom and a neon - light maarchy created by Philipe Parreno is spotted.

Rama's steps were followed by the new mayor, 39-year-old Erion Veliaj, who has studied in the US and speaks enthusiastically about a project to create new gardens and nurserys, parks and green areas, to attract entrepreneurs and reconsider the city, which currently numbers 102 public shipyards, in addition to the one just closed. It's about requalification of the city's heart, Skenderbe Square, which was transformed from a chaotic road circuit into a large pedonal area.

Despite these improvements, the work that remains to be done is still well. The city grows at a rate of 50 people a day, 20,000 a year. Many of them come from rural areas with the dream that their child came to life, others are returnees who have heard of Tirana's rebirth and want to escape the economic crisis that has reduced job opportunities in Europe”, shows the mayor who, apart from concrete, has also bet on the cultural formation of children by feeding them civic sentiment.

Chiara Nifos '%, territory development policy in Milan's Polytechnic, has been dealt with by projecting some of Tirana's peripheral neighbourhoods and several coastal areas. Stefano Boer's urban plan is undoubtedly positive and designs the city towards the future, given, for example, urban green areas, but the city faces major problems in the suburbs. There are no sidewalks and sewers, and the construction phenomenon without permission is so widespread that it is impossible to calculate exactly how many residents there are. The new mayor, rightly working for cultural senibly, to regain a civic spirit that was destroyed after the fall of communism”, reflects prof. Nifosà, which is also being taken care of by the environmental requalification of Divyaca lagoon, a natural park that is fighting pollution damage by using green buildings, developing agrarian tourism, and sustainable tourism.

A positive impact on the environment has exactly the return of young Albanians who have lived for a while in Europe. Flori Uka is a 33-year-old who has studied enology in Udine and has now opened an agriturism at the Laknas Center, 30km from the capital, where he cultivates fruits and biological vegetables from old seeds using only natural fertilizers. He has recently opened a cantina to collect the red grapes Kalmet and the white berry from which a wine similar to that of Earth is obtained. The garden's “productions are only about the kitchen of agriculture, but we are aiming to expand our activity to create more jobs in the biological agriculture sector”, explains Uka, who speaks of the Egyptian agricultural policies as if it were already part of them, because young people feel themselves European with full rights. This is said by Nicolaa Pedrazzi, an expert for Albania near “Oservatorio dei Balcani of Caucaso”, who lived in Tirana from 2012 to 2016. “There is still a lot of way to go. Albanians have already started it, but it is not necessarily going to the end because there are still many controversial issues.

A political system caught by corruption, high unemployment rates, very low wages, no union, very low health assistance, zero civic insurance, or social networking platforms. Let's just say, after exotic looks and natural beauty, there's a place that needs to be built still <x0. But, according to Pedraz, entry into Europe is necessary to avoid Albania and the Balkans, for many times, states between East and West, from being completed under the realm of Turkish and Islamic interest. “If Albania's request to enter Europe is rejected, then the possibility of an alignment with Turkey and the Middle East, which today are trying to extend their interest sphere to the country, can be opened. Erdoğan's Turkish government has financed the construction of a giant mosque in central Tirana”. But 50 years of Communism have led to a deep population secularism, most of which belongs to Bektashi, an Islamic order derived from Sufism, very tolerant, whose cultural centre is located right in Tirana.

After all, for many young people, true faith is techno music. As for Melissa, 23-year-old student who studies physical therapy at Catholic University, the Good Council Zoya, where lectures are conducted entirely in Italian. It's Saturday night, and she and her friends are sitting on the stairs in front of Mother Teresa Square, waiting for the time to go dancing to Folie, a bar frequented by DJs from around the world. I have been living in Italy for a period of time because my former fiancé was from Frosinone, and I assure you that Albanian discotheques are much more beautiful than Italian”, Melissa says proudly, who intends to open her ownrapeutic centre in Tirana once she completes school. Meanwhile, they have fun and dance until morning.

Albania's first contact with tourism was devastating. Out of isolation, they were abducted from the French construction site, which transformed some of the most beautiful areas in the south, such as Saranda. But the new government has decided to change direction.

The example is Vlora, half of which has been leveled by bulldozers and rebuilt with modern palaces and a promenade along the sea. Soon the other half will be requalified. The biggest tourist operator, Alpitour, has launched two tours this year “Francorosso”: one explores northern mountains and fjords, while the other affects cities U n NCO South, such as Berat “with a thousand windows”, and the ancient Gjirokastra described in the novel “The stone city of” Ismail Kadare's. “We believe that there are great possibilities”, says Bruno Sgobba, the Aliptour manager, who explains how tourist activities are favoured by a 6% tax and a labour and energy cost among the lowest in the Old Continent. The bubbles grow by 15% annually and each year come 4.3 million vacationers, mostly Germans, Austrians, Polishs, Czechoslovakias, Chinese.

International tourism operators fly up on the possibility of buying state land at zero cost, but Tourism Minister Milva Economi underscores that <x0-projectors seem to have a low environmental impact”. It is finishing the highway that will run the country, as well as working for two other airports besides Tirana's one, thus requalified two former military airports.