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12 October 2020
Di Maio: Success and joy built on “Soft Power” (Avvenire)

Dear Editor, I would like to share with you and your readers the joy of having brought home, after a long period of imprisonment in the hands of terrorist groups, Father Pier Luigi Maccalli and Nicola Chiacchio, whom I welcomed in Ciampino together with the Prime Minister. It was the outcome of a very complex […]

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21 August 2020
VM Del Re: “Truce in Libya offers ways out of the crisis” (Agenzia DIRE)

“Italy warmly welcomes the ceasefire in Libya, which offers a new possibility to a political way out, the only one possible, to an intricate crisis” – Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Emanuela Del Re declared today at the Dire agency. “We will continue to play our role of facilitation towards all parties involved – Ms […]

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21 August 2020
Lebanon, Mali, Belarus. That is where Italy goes. The floor to Vice Minister Del Re (Formiche.net)

“Italy has always played an important role in Lebanon, now we need long-term projects: there will be a reconstruction programme as in the past for the Balkans. Mali tells Europe that we need to look more carefully at the Sahel. In Belarus, however, it is still too early to draw any conclusions”. Conversation of Formiche.net […]

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13 August 2020
Sereni: “Italy is ready to support the rebirth of Lebanon. These are the three challenges Beirut has to face”. (Il Foglio)

With the resignation of the Diab government in Lebanon, the dramatic interweaving of three emergencies has become very evident: humanitarian, economic-social and political. On a humanitarian level, the terrible explosion on 4 August in the port of Beirut plunged hundreds of dead, thousands injured and the enormous destruction of the city. This situation was already […]

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12 August 2020
Del Re: “Lebanon is facing its own destiny” (Limes)

A terrible explosion in the harbour of Lebanon’s port city of Beirut, Hangar 12, led to massive destruction. However, it is not only the saddest figures of the tragedy – one hundred and sixty dead, more than six thousand injured, over three hundred thousand people displaced – as well as the destruction of the port […]

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6 August 2020
Ms Del Re: “Alongside the Lebanese: cooperation and dialogue avoid radicalism” (Avvenire)

Emanuela Claudia Del Re is in the middle of coordinating Italian aid to Lebanon. Not only because she is Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (M5s). As an expert sociologist in international politics, she has followed for several years, since 2010, a reconciliation project in the Lebanon’s Tripoli. And she is confident about the […]

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6 August 2020
Interview of Minister Di Maio to Repubblica

DI MAIO: «THE MAJORITY PARTIES WILL FIND AN AGREEMENT AND WE WON’T NEED FORZA ITALIA» ROME – Luigi Di Maio understands why the electoral reform law proposal has created such a stir within the Democratic Party and the haste to adopt a proportional system before the referendum on reducing the number of MPs. Regarding the so-called “security […]

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4 August 2020
Di Maio: “Wish you were here… Italy appeals for tourists” (The Times)

British tourists should not be afraid of coming to Italy, the country’s foreign minister said yesterday, despite fears that a second wave of Covid-19 infections is beginning in western Europe. “Italy has lived through one of the most difficult moments of its history,” Luigi Di Maio told The Times. “But thanks to our doctors and experts and the great […]

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31 July 2020
Mr Di Maio: “Barges have to be decommissioned. It is a national emergency” (Corriere della Sera)

Luigi Di Maio, you have expressed concern about the situation of sea arrivals. In the past you supported the hard line of the blockade of ships. And now? “You know, first of all I would like to clarify that it is not about following a hard line or not, there is no ideological approach to […]

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22 July 2020
Di Maio: “Now we need to cut taxes and launch a green industry plan. Conte head of the 5S Movement? He must join it first”

Minister Luigi Di Maio, your thoughts on the Recovery Fund? «The core of the agreement is about the future of our young generations and not the interests of any individual State. This is great news. Europe was at a crossroads and it has chosen to respond. Now it’s up to us to provide answers to […]

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