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17 May 2025
America’s Cup in Naples. A great recognition for the capital of the Mediterranean

Antonio Tajani, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation   For the first time in its history, the America’s Cup, the most prestigious trophy in international sailing, will be staged in Naples in 2027. This choice is a great recognition for this capital of the Mediterranean and for the strategic role […]

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17 May 2025
Tajani: “Government working for Sicily. Putin is wrong, he must open to negotiations” (Il Quotidiano di Sicilia)

CATANIA – From the war in Ukraine to the situation in Gaza, via trade tensions between Europe and the United States and the future of the Mediterranean area. Many topics were covered in this exclusive interview with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, currently in Sicily – specifically in Noto, in […]

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14 May 2025
Tajani: “On Gaza, we stand with the Pope: yes to aid. Le Pen is breaking up the EU” (Il Fatto Quotidiano)

On Friday, after the commemoration for the victims of terrorism and before the Cabinet meeting, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister, Antonio Tajani, had lunch at Palazzo Chigi with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni—who spoke on the phone with Erdogan about peace in Ukraine yesterday—and League colleague Matteo Salvini. It was a meeting […]

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14 May 2025
Tajani: “I don’t trust Vladimir. Le Pen is tearing the Union apart” (Il Messaggero )

He sighs, rolls his eyes skyward. He hesitates for a moment, then comes the blow: “I don’t trust Putin”. On the eve of the Istanbul summit that could shift the course of the war in Ukraine, Antonio Tajani takes a step back, dampening any premature optimism. Perhaps the ceasefire in Ukraine’s trenches is not as […]

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12 May 2025
Tajani: ‘Italy was present in Kyiv. We are already working on the country’s reconstruction’ (Corriere della Sera)

The Minister of Foreign Affairs: ‘Today, a new five-way European summit’ Zelensky is reportedly ready to meet Putin on Thursday in Turkey. Does the Tsar truly want peace, Minister Antonio Tajani? “That both Putin and Zelensky are prepared to meet is a decisive step forward, and we must encourage it in every possible way. But […]

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9 May 2025
Tajani: “A Church that reassures. The world must listen: too many flashpoints of war” (Il Messaggero)

Antonio Tajani, the Christian, gets straight to the heart of the matter. Pope Leo XIV, appearing before the world from the Loggia of Blessings, “spoke of God, he prayed — there’s a return to spiritual depth that, as a believer, truly moved me”. Tajani, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, is instead struck by the Pope’s […]

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30 April 2025
Tajani: “Peace in Ukraine by the end of the year. Moscow’s truce is just a bluff” (La Stampa)

Rome – “I am convinced that the war in Ukraine will end within this year”. Antonio Tajani, speaking from the European People’s Party congress in Valencia — where he is due to be re-confirmed as Vice President today — expresses confident optimism about an imminent end to the conflict between Moscow and Kyiv. The Minister of […]

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28 April 2025
Tajani: “Peace is now closer. The EU needs a revolution” (Il Giornale)

Antonio Tajani is about to depart for Valencia, Spain, where the EPP Congress opens today. In his heart and mind is Pope Francis’s last appeal for peace, that meeting on two small red chairs in St. Peter’s between Trump and Zelensky, held during the Pope’s funeral, and hopes for an agreement with Putin. But also […]

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28 April 2025
Tajani: «Rome as the centre of the world. From here a push for peace and dialogue in the West» (Il Messaggero)

Minister Tajani, is seeing Trump and Zelensky in St. Peter’s Basilica talking about peace the beginning of a breakthrough or will it happen like Israel and Iran who talked to each other during Wojtyla’s funeral but then did nothing? «I believe that this time there is the will to conclude. We shall see, however, what […]

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23 April 2025
Tajani: “He truly was everyone’s Pope” (Avvenire)

“The Deputy Prime Minister reaffirms his commitment to peace and migrants. “On the Liberation Day? You’ll find me at the Ardeatine Caves.” Rome – “The Pope belongs to everyone. It was a mistake, an even greater mistake at this moment, to label him politically.” Even before his role as foreign minister and secretary of Forza […]

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