Gentiloni: “Il nostro tesoro è il Mediterraneo” (L’Espresso)
Gentiloni: “Il nostro tesoro è il Mediterraneo” (L’Espresso)
Read moreGentiloni: “The Mediterranean is our treasure ” (L’Espresso)
The apocalypse of the migrants and the stabilisation of Libya; Europe’s egotism and the never-ending war in Syria; the fight against terrorism and Italy’s return to Africa, as well as the bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council. In this conversation with “l’Espresso” Paolo Gentiloni discusses the challenges Italy is up against […]
Read moreThe unending migration tragedy – Gentiloni: “Now Europe knows”
Interview with the minister: common rules on asylum and repatriation. White House: EU must stop traffickers “The horror of the lorry has convinced hawks, Europe has understood this is everyone’s tragedy” Paolo Gentiloni, Minister for Foreign Affairs: “The tragedy of Austria is proof that the migration emergency is not ours alone. Members must not be […]
Read more“Enough talk of homework”, says Gentiloni. “Italy is doing its duty” (Corriere della Sera)
The German Chancellor, Merkel, and the French President, Hollande, are urging our government to open migrant registration centres “in a short timescale, by the end of the year”. And Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni’s reply is that “Italy is doing what it must do, indeed much more: saving tens of thousands of human lives and […]
Read moreGiro: “Noi terroristi’ storie di ragazzi perduti” (l’Unità)
Parigi, 25 luglio 1995: esplode una bomba nella stazione RER di Saint Michel, causando 8 morti e 117 feriti. L’attentato e rivendicato dal GIA, il gruppo islamico armato algerino. Parigi 7 gennaio 2015: i fratelli Saïd e Chérif Kouachi assaltano la redazione di Charlie Hebdo, un giornale satirico, uccidendo 12 persone tra giornalisti, impiegati e […]
Read moreDella Vedova: «Più investimenti e canali legali per gli ingressi» (Il Mattino)
La tragica deriva dell’immigrazione rischia di trasformare l’Europa in una fortezza blindata. L’allarme è di Benedetto Della Vedova, sottosegretario al ministero degli Affari esteri. Un Paese che sgancia granate sui profughi in fuga dalla disperazione… «Anche questa della Macedonia è l’ulteriore conferma del fatto che un’emergenza epocale con flussi di profughi in cerca di salvezza […]
Read moreGentiloni: «Europe must change now or Schengen’s in jeopardy» (Messaggero)
ROME «The issue of immigration threatens to bring out the worst in Europe, amid member state egoisms, disparate decision-making and polemics. I’m worried. It is going to be on this question that Europe either rediscovers its soul or else truly loses it». According to Minister for Foreign Affairs Paolo Gentiloni there has to be agreement, […]
Read moreGentiloni: «Libya, immediate accord or we’ll be facing another Somalia» (La Stampa)
Migrants continue to die in the Mediterranean – there is talk of up to 2500 victims since the start of the year. Minister Gentiloni, what are we doing and what can we do? «We have had a record number of arrivals this year, but also a record number of rescues. Unfortunately, no matter how much […]
Read more“People are engaging in demagoguery over the corpses in the sea but Italy is not driven by self-interest”, says Gentiloni (Repubblica)
“People peddling demagoguery against the migrants are not solving anything. And luckily most Italians aren’t being taken in by them. But I don’t want to get into political arguments”. On the day when the photos of the ‘dots in the sea’ are hitting the front pages of the international press after the umpteenth disaster in […]
Read moreGentiloni: «Accord with Tripoli is possible» (Nazione-Carlino-Giorno)
“Libya’s destiny depends on the Libyans. If a negotiated agreement is not reached, stability cannot be imposed from the outside. Our objective is to encourage an accord in any case; we are ready to lend a hand at every level, from the economy to security, and we are also prepared use individual sanctions to isolate […]
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