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"You think you are heirs of Plato and Aristotle", Mitsotakis is asked about Rama's statement: Inappropriate! I have known him for years, they often escape...
2026-01-17 12:46:11 / POLITIKË
In an interview with the Alpha television station this morning, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis referred, among other things, to the statements of his Albanian counterpart regarding the origin of Greeks.
"I have known Mr. Rama for many years, he has a special way of expressing himself and often says things he shouldn't. This time he said a harsh word and he realized his mistake. I am taking into account the correction he made. Mr. Rama knows very well that Albania's path to Europe also passes through Greece. It was an inappropriate statement and it is better to leave it behind," he said.
This debate comes after strong criticism in the Greek media of Prime Minister Ed Rama, following his comment to Greek-American journalist John Defterios, during a panel held in Abu Dhabi.
"You think you have a monopoly on philosophy and are direct heirs of Plato and Aristotle, but you are not ," is this statement excerpted from Edi Rama, who addressed Greek-American journalist John Defterios after the latter mispronounced his name.
A day ago, Rama himself reacted by saying that his tones were not at all tendentious, but only friendly humor.
“I am amazed by the reaction of some media outlets in Athens and some tired Greek politicians regarding my not at all tendentious, but friendly tone during the conversation with the esteemed journalist John Defterios at the panel organized during the Sustainable Development Summit in Abu Dhabi!
"It is incredible that a sentence said with humor can be completely taken out of context and turned into a public polemic with nationalist pathos, which unfortunately happens often in media Athens ," Rama writes.
The head of the Albanian government further adds: But I assure all those who are worried and hurt that I have not the slightest doubt that Plato and Aristotle are Greek philosophers and that Ancient Greece is the cradle of European civilization; that Greek culture deserves only admiration, not only for the philosophers of antiquity but also for the poets, writers, filmmakers and the music it has given to humanity; that Greece is a country for which I have the most positive feelings, that the Greek people are for me an irreplaceable neighbor and an inalienable brother of the Albanian people and that I have a special respect for the Prime Minister of Greece! Do we understand? I hope so.
Finally, Rama closes with a 'clarification'.
" But let no one among the worried and hurt ask me for my humor, that anyone who writes and speaks Greek with the nationalist pathos of the aforementioned, should seem to me a descendant of Plato and Aristotle! That's it," Rama writes.
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