Ministri precedenti

Press Releases

14 May 2014

Soma mining tragedy: Minister Mogherini sends her condolences to Turkish colleague, Davutoglu

Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini has sent a message of condolences over the tragedy that struck the mine in Soma yesterday, 13 May 2014, taking a heavy toll of death and injury. Minister Mogherini expressed Italy’s solidarity with the Turkish people, and sent an offer of all necessary assistance and a special message of sympathy to […]

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14 May 2014

Mogherini–Kerry meeting – First official mission to the USA for Minister Mogherini

The first official visit by Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini to the United States opened with a wide-ranging discussion with the American Secretary of State John Kerry. Topics examined included the crisis in Ukraine (“we must support the national dialogue”); the stalemate in Syria; the two Italian marines detained in India; and the schoolgirls abducted in […]

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12 May 2014

Mogherini at EU Foreign Affairs Council – Ukraine: priority is to halt the violence. Support for OSCE roadmap

“Europe’s priority is to ensure that the violence on the ground is reined in and brought to an end”. These were the words of Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini on her arrival in Brussels for the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council. She defined this goal as “the lodestar of our work today. We shall continue to […]

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Interviews

12 May 2014

The need for a peace institute (European Voice)

We, the Foreign Ministers of nine European countries – from with in the EU, as well as outside–have joined together to launch the European Institute of Peace (EIP) to help tackle some of the challenges of today’s world. Tomorrow Monday, in Brussels, we will present the first President ever of the Institute. Generations of hostility […]

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9 May 2014

Impetus for new period in European politics, says Mogherini – Minister’s address in Florence on “The State of the Union”

In her address in Florence on “The State of the Union”, Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini called for a new period in European politics, not least through the forthcoming elections for the European Parliament. Italian Presidency: rapid transition in “government” of Europe The growth of populism is the natural outcome of 10 years of political choices […]

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8 May 2014

Mogherini at Italian-German Forum – Growth and jobs the priority for Italy’s EU Presidency

Employment, especially youth employment, and growth will be the strategic priority for Italy’s Presidency of the European Union, to signpost the direction to follow over the next 5 years. The point was reiterated by Minister Mogherini during her presentation at the second Italian-German Economic Forum in Rome on 8 May 2014. “We want the first […]

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8 May 2014

EU-Balkans: Mogherini in Thessaloniki – Italian Presidency will work for region’s European integration

“We are here in Thessaloniki with the Greek Presidency to say that the Italian Presidency will take up the baton and work to ensure that the Western Balkans can make rapid and concrete progress on the road to European integration. It is one of our precise interests for the stability, peace and economic development of […]

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8 May 2014

Nigeria – EU coordination for girls’ release, urges Mogherini

Proposal to be formalised at Monday’s Foreign Affairs Council: coordination needed, not a leading role for any one country “Our interest is not so much seeing any one country play a leading role, but results: the release of the girls abducted in Nigeria”. This was the comment by Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini, who will propose […]

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Interviews

8 May 2014

Mogherini: “Moskau muss faktor der verantwortung werden” (Der Standard)

Mogherini: “Mosca deve diventare un fattore di responsabilità” (traduzione non ufficiale) La via per risolvere la crisi in Ucraina deve passare soprattutto attraverso Kiev, ha dichiarato il Ministro degli Affari Esteri Federica Mogherini in un’intervista con Christoph Prantner. Senza dialogo ed unità interna, che deve essere sostenuta anche da Mosca, tutte le azioni esterne fallirebbero. […]

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8 May 2014

EXPO 2015 – Ban Ki-moon in Rome

EXPO 2015 “comes in a crucial year for the United Nations: not only will we be evaluating our success in achieving the Millennium Development Goals but we will also be introducing a new global development agenda”. These were the words of United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, speaking at the reception co-hosted by Foreign Minister […]

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Press Releases

7 May 2014

Refugees: Mogherini meets UN High Commissioner Guterres

Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini met the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, today. They both agreed on the need for the Italian government to keep asylum and migration policies high on its agenda. Minister Mogherini illustrated our country’s efforts to date, with assistance provided to over 30,000 migrants in these first few months […]

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7 May 2014

Mogherini in Parliament: Opening of international procedure for the two marines. Difficult dialogue on Ukraine but it is the only way. Geneva agreement the “lodestar”

Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini attended this week’s “question time” at the Chamber of Deputies and spoke about the two Italian marines, Ukraine, relations with Russia and religious freedom. Answering questions about the two Italian marines, Minister Mogherini said that she had spoken to them by phone “to inform them of all the steps in the […]

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