“When they called me I was in Egypt, and thought I had retired”. According to her, Emma Bonino had no idea she would be called upon to be Minister for Foreign Affairs on the cusp of turning 65. Her curriculum vitae is a full one. While her political activism and civil rights advocacy in Italy […]
Read moreBilateral relations and regional developments, particularly the crisis in Syria, were the main topics of discussion in a meeting today in Rome between Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino and Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel Ze’ev Elkin. Minister Bonino and Deputy Minister Elkin discussed the very positive trend in the bilateral partnership, not least in […]
Read moreWater cannons trained directly at people, demonstrators forced to seek asylum at Amnesty International offices in Istanbul and Ankara, a tragic death toll and the seat of Premier Erdogan’s government party in blazes: Are we facing a new crisis of democracy in Turkey? Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino seems to be ruling out the […]
Read moreThe first meeting of the “Women in Diplomacy” (WID) Committee was held today at the foreign ministry in Rome. Created in May and chaired by Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino, the Committee’s goal is to advance the role of women in diplomacy and foreign policy at both national and international levels. This first meeting […]
Read more“The news coming from Turkey is a source of deep concern, and the fact that the tensions of recent days have resulted in deaths is very serious”. The statement came from Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino, according to whom “excessive use of force by the police cannot be an acceptable response to the protests”. […]
Read moreLa drammatica situazione in Siria, con l’analisi di Stefano Stefanini, l’arroccamento del presidente Assad, sordo, nonostante la forte pressione internazionale, ad un sia pur minimo dialogo, come è plasticamente descritto nella foto di copertina, è il tema centrale del nuovo numero della rivista “Longitude”, diretta da Pialuisa Bianco, dal 3 giugno in edicola. L’altro tema […]
Read moreThe dramatic Syrian crisis, in an analysis by Stefano Stefanini that touches on President Assad’s stiff resistance to even the most minimal dialogue, is the central theme of the new issue of “Longitude”, the geo-political magazine directed by Pialuisa Bianco, on newsstands as of 3 June, whose main topics also include world finance, the “case […]
Read moreProspects for the Syria crisis and the Middle East peace process were the main focus of Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino’s meeting today in Rome with Secretary General of the Arab League Nabil El-Araby, with the accent first and foremost on U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s peace process initiative. The minister expressed her […]
Read moreEconomic relations between Italy and Turkey and between businesses in the two countries, relations with the European Union and the situation in the Mediterranean. These were the topics discussed in consultations between the Secretary General of the Italian Foreign Ministry, Michele Valensise, and the Secretary General of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Feridun Sinirlioglu. The talks […]
Read moreEurope will be assessing the “Cocaine Route” Programme on 28 May in the course of an international conference in Rome entitled “Improving responses to organised crime and drug trafficking along the Cocaine Route”. The conference has been organised by the European Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) in cooperation with the Italian Ministry […]
Read moreChaired for the first time by Minister Emma Bonino, Italian Development Cooperation’s steering committee has approved three important contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). The funding is intended for initiatives on behalf of the Palestinian people. Assistance for refugees Two of the contributions concern emergency initiatives. The first, worth 1.5 million […]
Read moreTo find a political solution to the crisis, Italy fully supports the idea of organising a “Geneva 2” international conference that brings all of the interested parties to the same table. It will be vital, in this respect, to strengthen the Syrian opposition coalition at both the political and concrete levels. That was the position […]
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