Prime Minister Edi Rama has accused this Wednesday the European Union of not immediately helping Albania with Covid vaccines during the coronavirus pandemic.

During his speech at the "GLOBSEC 2023" forum that is being held in Bratislava, the Head of Government spoke about the gap that exists between EU member states and those of the Western Balkans, stressing that way more Albanian citizens would have died if the president of Turkey, Erdogan had not helped.

"The most surprising moment of the gap between routine speeches and what was happening was when the pandemic hit.

When we all isolated ourselves completely. And we saw EU countries rushing to keep themselves within the walls of their borders.

And when the vaccines came, they made a distribution of them completely disregarding the fact that there were 6 countries surrounded by the borders of the EU that needed them as much.

What happened was that we, as Albanians, ran to Turkey, Serbia to China and Russia, Macedonia to all of them in order to find help to save lives.

If it hadn't been for Turkey's President Erdogan, Albania would have faced many more deaths. While the EU only cared about itself and it took a long time for them to turn their eyes on us and then the situation was good because they gave us many vaccines. This was nonsense, but it was the reality", stated the PM.