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30 June 2020
Di Maio: “Europe has responded to the crisis. Now it’s up to the government to live up to it.” (La Stampa)

Europe has responded strongly to the crisis, and I have confidence in Ursula Von der Leyen. Now it is up to the Italian government to prove to be capable of managing the challenge. At the age of 33, Luigi Di Maio lived many lives. In the latter, as foreign minister, he discovered that the cruel […]

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24 June 2020
Di Stefano: “Only 800 SMEs out of 140 thousand use export funds” (Il Sole 24 Ore)

The pact for export, presented last June 8th by Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio with a funding of 1.4 billion euros, enters the operational phase. In the last few days, the Foreign Ministry’s Facilitation Committee has outlined the new guidelines for the use by Simest of the instruments defined by Law 394 on internationalisation, now […]

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9 June 2020
Di Maio «We need concrete solutions to get the economy back on its feet. My style? Doing, not speaking» (Il Messaggero)

He smiles beneath the blue mask with a stylised Italian flag. The operation was clearly a political success and Luigi Di Maio knows it. He was able to bring together at the Foreign Ministry Cabinet ministers from Italia Viva (Teresa Bellanova) and the Democratic Party (from Dario Franceschini to Roberto Gualtieri and Paola De Micheli), plus Paola Pisano […]

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8 June 2020
Sereni: Covid-19, Italy and the promotion of women’s fundamental rights (International Affairs)

Throughout the world, coronavirus crisis has hit women hardest, but it has also demonstrated their great strength and resilience, starting with the key role they have played at the forefront of healthcare workers and in scientific laboratories. Among the effects of the lockdown there has been a dramatic increase in episodes of domestic violence and […]

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4 June 2020
Africa, human rights and vaccine race. The views of Deputy Minister Del Re (Formiche.net)

“A full -fledged conversation with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emanuela Del Re. These are her words on Libya: “It’s necessary to reason from a European perspective because no country can resolve the crisis alone” Africa, its risks and opportunities, Italian and international efforts, the commitment to defend human rights and the challenge of […]

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3 June 2020
Del Re – Maurer: Global anti-Covid solidarity, the 6 actions we need (Avvenire)

Emanuela Del Re is the Deputy Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Peter Maurer is the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Dear Editor, there are no doubts that, in order to effectively fight the war against the coronavirus pandemic on the new front front lines in the more fragile countries, […]

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1 June 2020
Di Maio: We will close the borders to those who keep out the Italians (Corsera)

“We believe in the European spirit, but we are ready to close our borders to those who do not respect us”. Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio thus responds to the closures of tourist flows announced by some countries. You said that if someone treats Italy like ‘a lazaret’ you will not remain silent. What did […]

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28 May 2020
Di Maio: “Tourism will start again soon.” (Corriere del Trentino)

The (temporal) borderline is set for 15 June, when other (physical) borders can be crossed “to restore tourist flows and help the northern regions, including Trentino and South Tyrol, which have suffered the most from the pandemic”. A restart together (“We are opposed to exclusive bilateral agreements”), but “with uniform rules so as not to […]

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25 May 2020
Africa, Ms Del Re: “Strengthening the partnership with a future-oriented continent”. (Agency Nova)

Italy is committed to deepening its partnership with Africa, in the conviction that it is necessary to change an “absolutely anachronistic” narrative of a continent that is fully “projected into the future”. This was declared to “Agenzia Nova” by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, on the occasion of […]

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