Gentiloni: “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 Strict compliance to immigration rules that are outdated by the times is undermining one of Europe’s biggest conquests: freedom of movement».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 […]
Read moreGentiloni: IS will try to strike again but on the ground it’s losing. The Union must change, it’s too rigid (La Repubblica)
Minister Paolo Gentiloni, 2015 seems to have been marked from start to finish by the challenge posed by Da’esh. Now the “caliph” ” al-Baghdadi has appeared again and is saying that the US and Russian raids have not weakened it. “Al Baghdadi’s message, quite apart from the necessary verification, which requires more time, aims to […]
Read moreGentiloni: We are very active in Syrian talks. Mosul, strategic intervention (Corriere della Sera)
“The crises in Syria and Libya have brought out the need for a concerted effort in the Mediterranean; major powers, European powers and influential regional powers working together on solutions. But this is something that we are going to have to force ourselves to make stable with the minimum means needed to make that possible: […]
Read moreOur Strategy (L’Unità)
Syria is today the “mother” of all Mideast crises, and is receiving priority attention from the international community. Its dramatic humanitarian consequences and impact on the refugee phenomenon are there for all to see. The International Syria Support Group that has met twice in Vienna, and of which Italy is a member, has launched an […]
Read moreMediterranean crisis: the role of Italy and the anti-ISIS coalition (Corriere della Sera)
The turmoil in the Mediterranean is a challenge that strikes to the very core of Europe. The terrorist threat and the flow of migrants arriving on our borders are two questions that we must keep separate, but which both put us to the test. They place the values on which the European Union was founded […]
Read moreGentiloni: «Italy in the forefront, but a mistake to speak of war» (Le Repubblica)
“Let’s not call it war”, says Minister for Foriegn Affairs Paolo Gentiloni on a flight to Brussels for the monthly foreign ministers meeting. The agenda was to be immigration, but that has changed since the massacres in Paris. The minister urges caution in the use of certain words. “We are in the forefront in the […]
Read moreGentiloni: “Binding reductions in greenhouse emissions” (Il Sole 24 Ore Focus)
To meet the challenges of the future, innovation and sustainability are key. In energy, one of the most important sectors of the green economy and one of those subject to the strongest pressure to combat climate change, this means renewable sources, energy saving, innovation and research. Italy is well placed – better than any other […]
Read moreGentiloni: Lessons of Rabin alive 20 years on (Il Messaggero)
Amid terrible days in the Middle East, the 20th anniversary of the murder of Rabin Yitzhak Rabin: beloved Israeli leader and Nobel laureate, whose image remains inextricably linked with that of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, whose hand Rabin shook on the White House lawn under the gaze of Bill Clinton. It was precisely that Israeli-Palestinian […]
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