Prime Minister Albin Kurti is participating in the 26th edition of the SYMI International Symposium, held in Greece, where progressive politicians, prominent academics and leaders of international organizations are participating.
In his speech at the opening ceremony and panel of the symposium, he emphasized that the world is facing three global challenges of an unprecedented level: climate change, social inequality and security threats.
Emphasizing social inequality, he referred to a study last year by the international organization Oxfam according to which the top 1 percent of the richest own 45.6% of global wealth and 59% of all financial assets in the world.
According to the same organization, in the last decade, this 1% has taken possession of more than half of all new global wealth.
“As long as the 1% of the richest own half of the global wealth, I am afraid that there will be no real peace between societies and people, nor with the nature of our planet,” said Prime Minister Kurti.
He spoke about the importance of restoring and preserving the meaning but also concretization of the great ideas of freedom, equality, democracy and justice and about the need to win democratic elections in order to have democratic government.
The Prime Minister underlined that such a thing has not been more important than today, in the last 80 years, since the end of the Second World War.
