Del Re: “Global Commitment for Cooperators Abroad” (Avvenire magazine)
We are also working for international volunteers. We are doing so on several fronts, “so that all our compatriots who are not resident abroad can return to Italy, wherever there is a clear will or need to do it”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated. The urgent need to think about evacuation plans for the […]
Read moreSereni: “Italian foreign policy at the time of the Coronavirus”” (formiche.net)
Marina Sereni, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Pd political party: “We need to review the industrial strategy with national security in mind. We must pay attention to certain stories.” “”We are living a peculiar situation; we pass form hours of total frenzy, consider, for example, the difficulties in organising the return of Italians […]
Read moreDel Re: “Those loving us are the most suffering” (Avvenire)
Dear Director, Videos of African children smiling and inciting Italy to hold on are circulating on the web. Our country, they say, has experienced hard moments in history but has always overcome them. I have republished the video myself, thanking them. Many Syrian refugees I’ve known since I worked in the refugee camps, write me […]
Read moreItalian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio interview (BBC)
Link BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51852320 Coronavirus has claimed 1,016 lives in Italy, officials say, but Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio says he hopes his country will be the first in Europe to get over the emergency. Another 188 people died over 24 hours. However, Mr Di Maio told the BBC the measures imposed in the first area of […]
Read moreDi Maio: “Italy demands respect. ‘No’ to boycotts of our country” (La Stampa)
Italians are being accused – worldwide – of spreading the Covid-19 infection, like or even more than the Chinese, and no-one seems to care whether it’s true or not, it’s what many people around the world are thinking and it won’t be easy to change their idea of us. No less than seventeen countries have […]
Read moreDi Maio: «Treufan, a model for Italy» (La Città)
«This is what we want for Italy» says Minister Luigi Di Maio. In a country where the economy is always on the brink of crisis, the Foreign Minister is happy to shine the spotlight onto a success story from the deep south of the Country, from Battipaglia, embodied in the achievement by the employees of […]
Read moreDi Maio at Flumeri: “here we’re winning a difficult battle” (il Quotidiano del Sud)
Born in Avellino, in the Malzoni Clinic, Luigi di Maio returns as Foreign Minister. This return home, after two days spent in Naples, comes after a successful career first as political chief of he 5 Star Movement and, today, as the Italian Foreign Minister. This will be a whistlestop tour of the province of Avellino, […]
Read more14 European Foreign Ministers: Syria, ending the humanitarian disaster in Idlib
Idlib is experiencing a new humanitarian disaster, one of the worst of the Syrian crisis which, in nearly a decade, has counted countless similar disasters. The Syrian regime continues its strategy of military reconquest of the country at any cost, regardless of the consequences for Syrian civilians. Since December, its operations in the north-west have […]
Read moreDi Maio: “We are transparent with other states. New measures against contagion”
Trains blocked at the Brenner Pass, compatriots repatriated, Italy “discouraged” by many governments. Minister Di Maio, what are you planning to do? “My Austrian colleague called me to explain that trains had immediately left, while in Mauritius diplomatic channels were activated to assist the Italians. These are sporadic cases, I say that we all have […]
Read moreDi Maio: «Libya and business: greater collaboration with France» (Il Mattino)
Every time I have the opportunity, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, I’m pleased to speak about Campania, and how extraordinary the region is and, in particular, of Naples, a city I am very attached to. About a year ago, in an interview in Italy, President Macron declared: «Naples is a special place for me; Stendhal […]
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