Europe Cannot Become a War Project | Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania

In this edition of Horizons, devoted entirely to the future of the European Union and the broader European continent, we present an exclusive interview with Albania’s sitting Prime Minister, Edi Rama. A remarkably versatile figure—artist, former professor, and basketball player—Mr. Rama is widely regarded as perhaps the most successful leader in Albania’s democratic history. Over the past several years, he has steered his country through a period of dynamic growth. In an in-depth conversation with Horizons Editor-in-Chief Vuk Jeremić, Mr. Rama reflects on Europe’s complex—and in some respects escalating—crisis, warning that “transforming Europe from a peace project into a war project is very dangerous,” and questioning how its leaders could forget that “its main power is in its soul and not its muscles.” The interview was recorded on July 8 in Tirana.