{"id":6599,"date":"2023-08-22T07:30:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T11:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=6599"},"modified":"2023-08-22T07:30:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T11:30:50","slug":"italys-meloni-covers-unpaid-bill-of-tourist-idiots-in-albania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/22\/italys-meloni-covers-unpaid-bill-of-tourist-idiots-in-albania\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy\u2019s Meloni covers unpaid bill of tourist \u2018idiots\u2019 in Albania"},"content":{"rendered":"

Albanian prime minister complains over \u20ac80 dine-and-dash caper in Berat.<\/h4>
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BY\u00a0ANTOANETA ROUSSI<\/a> for Politico –<\/em><\/strong> In an unusual diplomatic move, Italy\u2019s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni settled a restaurant bill of four Italian tourists who left a restaurant in Albania without paying.<\/p>

Albania\u2019s Prime Minister Edi Rama raised the issue with his Italian counterpart while Meloni was visiting Albania with her family last week. The incident<\/a> reportedly took place in Berat<\/a>, which sits on the Osum River.<\/p>

Meloni responded by telling her ambassador to \u201cgo and pay the bill for these idiots,\u201d Italian paper\u00a0La Stampa<\/a>\u00a0reported. The bill amount to around \u20ac80, according to the\u00a0BBC<\/a>.<\/p>

Italy\u2019s embassy in Albania confirmed that it paid the bill with Meloni\u2019s personal funds.<\/p>

\u201cThe Italians respect the rules and pay off their debts and we hope that episodes of this kind will not repeat themselves,\u201d the embassy said<\/a>.<\/p>

Francesco Lollobrigida, the Italian agriculture minister, told Reuters that it was a matter of\u00a0national pride<\/a>. \u201cShe offered to pay the bill. The ambassador was on his way back to Tirana and was available to do this,\u201d he told the news service. \u201cA few dishonest individuals cannot embarrass a nation of decent people,\u201d Lollobrigida said.<\/p>

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