Giro: Ghana ed Etiopia: economie in crescita grazie all’Italia (l’Unità)
Giro: Ghana ed Etiopia: economie in crescita grazie all’Italia (l’Unità)
Read moreGiro: “2016: davanti al disordine mondiale, la storia ci insegni qualcosa” (L’Huffington Post)
Tutti abbiamo ancora negli occhi le immagini delle torri del World Trade Centre di New York che collassavano, generando una nuvola di polvere che coprì tutta Manhattan. Era il 2001 e il mondo restò scioccato dal più grande e sofisticato attacco terroristico messo a segno fino a quel momento. L’anno non era iniziato così. Al […]
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 Strict compliance to immigration rules that are outdated by the times is undermining one of Europe’s biggest conquests: freedom of movement».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 moreGentiloni e Hammond: “Roma e Londra assieme per migliorare l’Unione” (la Repubblica)
Caro direttore, Italia e Regno Unito hanno due idee profondamente diverse di Europa. A differenza di quella britannica, che ha come principale punto di riferimento il mercato unico, la visione italiana è d’ispirazione federalista e contempla un processo di integrazione europea sempre più stretta, sia in termini economici che sul piano politico-istituzionale. Nonostante obiettivi e […]
Read moreGiro: “Con Macri l’Argentina prova a superare il peronismo” (Il Sole 24 ore)
Oggi s’insedia in Argentina il nuovo presidente, Mauricio Macri, il candidato del “cambio”. La sua forza politica è singolare per l’Argentina contemporanea: né radicale né peronista, appare più legata alla tradizione liberale e riformista europea. Quella di Macri è stata una vittoria che segna un cambiamento di ciclo politico, che avrà impatto su tutto il […]
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 […]
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