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00:00Now it's an honor, on behalf of the people of the Protectorate of Albania, to give the floor to the Italian Prime Minister and Protector of our country, Giorgia Melone.
00:12Dear colleagues, good morning everyone, and let me say thanks to Eddie, not for being a Protectorate, but for his warm hospitality and the summit, and also for making me feel very young again with that video he showed in the inauguration.
00:37And I want also to congratulate Eddie for his absolutely unexpected re-election as a leader here of the Albanian government.
00:53I'm happy that Europe will continue to count on his spirit and his determination.
01:00Albania is asking the European political community for the first time.
01:03I value it as particularly significant, not only for this nation, but for all of us.
01:14I have always considered the European identity as fact, established by history even before geography.
01:24A concept harder to enclose in a definition than to understand by impulse.
01:31Albania is, of course, Europe, just like Italy or Serbia or Norway, regardless of whether they are part of this or that organization.
01:43That is why it always makes me smile when someone attempts to claim the right to decide who is European and who is not.
01:53Among the states that are around this table today, several have decided not to join the EU.
02:01Others aspire to be part of it.
02:04Both are no less European than the 27 EU member states.
02:09Yet the EU is today the soundest common home to achieve what I like to call the European reunification attained amongst people who may differ from one another.
02:24And yet they are a part of one who, like the different fingers of a hand.
02:29Peoples who have fought each other over the centuries yet are in reality one single people.
02:37Also for all, for this reason, being here today means taking a step forward in the historic process of reunifying Europe.
02:45Because if we really want to build a new Europe in a new world, we cannot imagine doing so without the Western Balkans,
02:53without their peoples, without their identities and historical backgrounds.
02:58Western Balkans do not lie on Europe's finger or beyond our continent.
03:04They are in the very heart of our continent.
03:07They are the bridge region between the East and the West,
03:10between what St. John Paul II liked to call the two lungs of Europe.
03:16If you look in the 18 islands은 the higher ülkenε there.
03:18You can also be announced when the T. John Paul II affected each other's 파 완성.
03:19Until then, from the East and the West,
03:21I have done that in the very different ways that I have given it.
03:25Little importance of the coastline is a situation.
03:33Thank you in those places.
03:34After all, let's show this children through time today.
03:36Before the East and the East of East,
03:40you can cry back in May,