Italian 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 […]
Read moreScalfarotto: CETA, entrepreneurs have already encouraged it (Il Sole 24 ORE)
More than two years after the start of the provisional implementation of CETA, I can only rejoice that the figures of trade exchange – that are so positive for Italy – have gradually smoothed the positions of those who presented CETA as a threat to our economy, to our health and to environment until September […]
Read moreDel Re: «A Possible Future in Africa» (Corriere della Sera)
Dear Editor, returning from my fruitful mission in Senegal, I have asked myself how to revitalise the issue of Africa in the Italian political discourse. Prime Minister Conte, Minister Di Maio and other members of the Government have visited Africa, and I too have been on a number of missions there. Of the 22 Priority […]
Read moreScalfarotto “It was thanks to teamwork. Immediately a negotiation between the US and the EU”
The US administration has introduced new customs duties on EU products, but it has not affected Italy, as it did in October. Are you satisfied? “We have avoided new customs duties and we are very satisfied with this – says the Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, Ivan Scalfarotto (Italia Viva) -. The government and the institutions […]
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