Minister Alfano’s interview to: The Jakarta Post
Q) Italy is Indonesia’s biggest CPO importer in EU. But earlier this month, the European Parliament approved the draft measures to ban the use of palm oil in biofuels in 2021. As the largest producer of palm oil, Indonesia believes this is a protectionist move. What’s Italy’s position in this matter, and will it participate […]
Read moreAlfano: “Security and development to strengthen Italy’s commitment in Africa” (La Stampa)
“I am writing to you while I am on a mission to Niger, Senegal and Guinea.”In 2017 Africa has played a central role in Italy’s foreign policy: we have conceived an innovative format, which was acknowledged by Heads of State and Governments at the Ministerial Conference of Transit Countries, that was held at the Farnesina […]
Read moreAlfano: “May the path of dialogue lead us back to Jerusalem” (Avvenire)
The year that is about to end has marked a significant anniversary for Franciscans: their 800-year-long presence in the land of Jesus. This anniversary is the focus of the two-day international conference “Inter-cultural and Inter-religious Dialogue in Promoting Peace: the 800-year presence of Franciscans in the Holy Land”, organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, […]
Read moreAlfano: “Reputation strengthens competitiveness” (Il Sole 24 Ore)
Tackling crime and corruption is a critical challenge for public institutions and private companies to broaden the international competitiveness of Italy and combat the negative perceptions that affect market confidence, discourage investment and weaken public confidence in public institutions. I have been working on this issue for many years, ever since my first ministerial appointment […]
Read moreAlfano: “This Sea unifies. We must invest in projects for youth”
Strengthening security by multiplying agreements such as the one finetuned with Niger but also investing on the age-old unifying and not divisive idea of the “Mare Nostrum”, 200 million for the Africa Fund, an Erasmus programme for the Mediterranean, and one thousand cultural cooperation projects. Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano heralds the opening of the Med […]
Read moreInterview by Minister Alfano to TASS
1. You are flying to Moscow again. What is the agenda of your visit? Do last year’s numerous high-level contacts between Italian and Russian authorities mean that the cooling of relations produced by geopolitical facts is now over? I will be in Moscow for the 15th Plenary Session of the Economic, Industrial and Financial Cooperation […]
Read moreAlfano: “OSCE in Palermo for a safer Mediterranean” (Giornale di Sicilia)
Palermo and Sicily have hosted 300 delegates from 64 Countries and have put the Mediterranean back at the centre of the world political debate. By virtue of its several thousand-years-old history and its openness to different civilisations, we have chosen Palermo to host the ministerial Mediterranean Conference of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in […]
Read moreAlfano: «A Mediterranean Erasmus. Integrating the Southern shore is crucial for security» (Corriere della Sera)
A «Mediterranean Erasmus» to create the conditions for greater cultural integration among the Countries bordering the Mediterranean was the announcement made by the Foreign Minister, Angelino Alfano. Today, in Palermo, he will open the first OSCE Conference, jointly held with the Countries of North Africa and entirely dedicated to the problem of migrants and their […]
Read moreAlfano: «Mediterranean, the border that unites» (La Stampa)
Dear Editor, There are borders that unite and borders that divide: the Mediterranean is one of those that unite. I will reaffirm this in Palermo tomorrow, at the presentation of “Italy, Cultures, the Mediterranean”, the cultural programme that the Foreign Ministry, through its network of Embassies, Consulates and Italian Cultural Institutes, intends to implement in […]
Read moreAlfano: “Italian, a language to spread” (Corriere della Sera)
Dear Editor, let me start with a matter of fact: Italian is one of the most loved and studied languages in the world. In our internal debate, which is mainly focused on the risk of the progressive grammatical and linguistic degradation, we often overlook the appeal that our language has abroad, with more than two […]
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