During a summit in Copenhagen on Thursday (October 2), EU leaders couldn’t resist having a laugh. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama turned to President Emmanuel Macron and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and joked:
”You should make an apology to us because you didn’t congratulate us on the peace deal that President Trump made between Albania and Azerbaijan,” according to Politico.

The trio erupted in laughter, with Macron replying: ”I’m sorry for that.”
Albania (in the Balkans, Europe) and Azerbaijan (in the South Caucasus, near Armenia) are completely separate countries and have no conflict with each other.
Despite the slip-ups, Trump did help broker a real deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia in August to end a conflict that had raged for nearly four decades.
President Aliyev met with Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at the White House and agreed to a peace deal that, as of now, remains unsigned.
Still, Trump hasn’t let the details stop him from calling it a major U.S. and personal victory. He even described the meeting with a touch of warmth:
