Gentiloni: «Italy won’t be satisfied with a convenient truth; Egypt must help our agents» (La Repubblica)
Italy demands the truth and will not accept convenient versions on the death of Giulio Regeni. For Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, no realpolitik reasons apply here; the people responsible for the crime must be punished. Mr Minister, will we come to know the truth on the murder? «We have asked and obtained that investigative agents […]
Read moreGentiloni: «Migrants and ISIS, we need more cooperation» (Vita)
Handling immigration at national but especially European level; the political transition in Libya; the conflict in Syria; ISIS. Foreign policy will be at the centre of international debate in the upcoming months. With the appointment of Mario Giro as Deputy Minister to complete the institutional framework, what role can cooperation policies play on each one […]
Read moreGentiloni: «Global challenge to terrorism» (L’Unità)
To “overhaul” the international anti-Daesh strategy and evaluate the new challenges posed by terrorism. This was the agenda of the Small Group Ministerial Meeting of the Coalition to counter Daesh, which gave rise to three political messages that are due to guide future actions. The first concerns the results achieved up to now. The anti-Daesh […]
Read moreGentiloni: «There is the risk that ISIS will now move to Libya» (Il Messaggero)
Today, meeting in Rome, are the representatives of 23 Countries of the anti-ISIS coalition. The host is Foreign Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, who yesterday took stock of the situation with U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry. In December the United States had asked Italy to take part in the air strikes. Why is there some reluctance […]
Read moreGentiloni: “A two-speed Europe? It’s a possibility, let’s restart with the six founding countries” (La Stampa)
“It’s right to talk about a two-speed Europe, although it isn’t the best definition, because opposing views must and can coexist”: the Minister of Foreign Affairs Paolo Gentiloni thus announces that during the next meeting in Rome, between colleagues from the six founding countries of the EU, a “common view of the future of the […]
Read moreGentiloni launches a challenge: peace is possible in Syria. «Beyond the embargo, with humanitarian corridors and aid”
«Pressure must be exerted on two fronts: engaging the regime into opening humanitarian corridors and, through negotiations, obtaining a ceasefire in order to mitigate the ongoing tragedy», said Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni commenting the situation in Syria. He has a clear stance on the fact that the war in Syria, with its cities under siege, […]
Read moreGentiloni: «EU is raising a useless controversy. Flexibility? It’s all our doing» (Corriere della Sera)
«Europe is experiencing one of its most difficult periods since the ‘60s. It does not need Brussels to engage in useless controversies. Italy is not raising controversy but it obeys E.U. rules and demands to be respected,” Minister Gentiloni said in reply to the unprecedented words of criticism addressed by the President of the EU […]
Read moreGentiloni: “Who misses borders?” (l’Unità)
Cologne’s shameful night calls for an uncompromising response from German authorities and reminds us too that no confusion can be made between the duty to receive refugees and tolerating violence and lawlessness. The response must be all the more severe because those incidents burst on the scene of a Europe that has been on the […]
Read moreGentiloni: «European asylum to save Schengen» (La Stampa)
Europe is racing to put national barriers back up again. Does that surprise you, Mr Gentiloni? «It is a danger I’ve long been pointing to. We risk sacrificing Schengen on the altar of Dublin. Strict compliance to immigration rules that are outdated by the times is undermining one of Europe’s biggest conquests: freedom of movement». […]
Read moreGiro: “Venezuela, reasons for dialogue” (l’Unità)
In Venezuela’s latest parliamentary elections, the opposition coalition (Mud) saw the election of 112 Deputies, against the government party’s (Psuv) 55. Surpassing every optimistic prediction, Mud managed to prevail even in those poorest neighbourhoods that had been Chavez’s traditional bulwark. The victory, uniform in nearly every electoral district, can be attributed to the deep dissatisfaction […]
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