This week Rama debuts exhibition in Greece and will be first Albanian PM to visit 10 Downing Street

When Albania’s leader Edi Rama doodles in his prime ministerial office, he is consumed by what he calls his artistic spirit. The act of sketching over sheets of A4 sized paper, on used printouts, notes and protocols, not only comes naturally to a man who spent much of his early life teaching art, but also he says, helps keep him focused as he discusses matters of state.

It is a unique working style, feted in Athens this week where his first exhibition in Greece, Improvisations, was opened in the magisterial Zappeion by the country’s foreign minister and attended by his Greek counterpart, Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

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