COVID-19

Diplomatic Network

21 March 2020

Message of Minister Di Maio

“Doctors, nurses and social workers are currently suffering from a lack of protective equipment, especially masks. Such suffering is real not only for medical staff but also for our law enforcement and rescue forces, our military and the many entrepreneurs and workers in the factories. Dear servants of the State, I hope that these words […]

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Interviews

13 March 2020

Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio interview (BBC)

Link BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51852320 Il Coronavirus ha causato 1.016 vittime in Italia, sostengono le fonti ufficiali, ma il Ministro degli Esteri Luigi Di Maio spera che il suo paese sarà il primo in Europa a superare l’emergenza. Altre 188 persone sono morte in 24 ore. Tuttavia, Di Maio ha dichiarato alla BBC che le misure imposte nella […]

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Interviews

13 March 2020

Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio interview (BBC)

Link BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51852320 Coronavirus has claimed 1,016 lives in Italy, officials say, but Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio says he hopes his country will be the first in Europe to get over the emergency. Another 188 people died over 24 hours. However, Mr Di Maio told the BBC the measures imposed in the first area of […]

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Interviews

9 March 2020

Di Maio: “Si el coronavirus para Italia, se muere Europa” (La Vanguardia)

Como ministro de Asuntos Exteriores italiano, Luigi Di Maio (Avellino, 1986) está concentrado en trasladar al extranjero que la situación italiana por el coronavirus, con más de 5.800 contagiados, está bajo control. El hasta no hace mucho líder del Movimiento 5 Estrellas (M5E) aborda en esta conversación con La Vanguardia el desafio sanitario, pero también […]

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Press Releases

8 March 2020

Further details on the Decree of the Italian PM of March 8, 2020

Further details on the Decree of the Italian Prime Minister of March 8, 2020 CROSS-BORDER WORKERS Restrictions put into effect today do not affect those who must travel for well grounded work-related reasons, unless they are subject to quarantine measures or tested positive for COVID-19. Cross-border workers may enter and exit their area of residence […]

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Interviews

3 March 2020

Di Maio: “Italy demands respect. ‘No’ to boycotts of our country” (La Stampa)

Italians are being accused – worldwide – of spreading the Covid-19 infection, like or even more than the Chinese, and no-one seems to care whether it’s true or not, it’s what many people around the world are thinking and it won’t be easy to change their idea of us. No less than seventeen countries have […]

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Interviews

27 February 2020

“Advising against travelling to Italy is nonsensical” says the Foreign Minister (Le Monde)

[Translation of the original French article published in Le Monde, 27 February 2020]   In an interview with Le Monde, Luigi Di Maio makes an appeal for solidarity among Europeans in the face of the coronavirus epidemic and criticises the attitude of his former ally Matteo Salvini and of Marine Le Pen – who are […]

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Interviews

27 February 2020

“Sconsigliare di venire in Italia non ha alcun senso” dice il Ministro degli Esteri (Le Monde)

Traduzione dall’originale francese dell’articolo apparso su le Monde, 27 febbraio 2020   In un’intervista a Le Monde, Luigi Di Maio lancia un appello alla solidarietà tra gli europei di fronte al coronavirus, e critica l’atteggiamento del suo ex alleato Matteo Salvini e di Marine Le Pen – i quali chiedono la chiusura delle frontiere. Intervista […]

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Interviews

25 February 2020

Di Maio: “We are transparent with other states. New measures against contagion”

Trains blocked at the Brenner Pass, compatriots repatriated, Italy “discouraged” by many governments. Minister Di Maio, what are you planning to do? “My Austrian colleague called me to explain that trains had immediately left, while in Mauritius diplomatic channels were activated to assist the Italians. These are sporadic cases, I say that we all have […]

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