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Interviews

21 August 2014

Mogherini: “The West is at risk. We now need diplomatic action with all Arab countries to isolate the fanatics”

ROME. “No country is immune from the risks. The Islamic State (IS) movement has attracted disciples in the West too”. Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini has just registered the Parliament’s green light to send arms to the Kurds. She’s sitting in the courtyard at Palazzo Montecitorio, the seat of the Italian Parliament. Asked about her chances […]

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14 August 2014

Buenos Aires – Italian EU Presidency a topic in Buenos Aires

 “Italy and Europe: a journey across the Italian Presidency of the European Union” is the title of a workshop to be held on 9 September at the Italian Cultural Institute of Buenos Aires. Relateur will be Lorenza Sebesta, holder of the Jean Monnet chair at the University of Bologna’s Buenos Aires branch. The topic will […]

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Press Releases

13 August 2014

EU: Mogherini hails convening of foreign ministers. Calls for common Iraq-Gaza-Libya action

Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini expressed appreciation for the decision by EU High Representative Catherine Ashton to convene a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council on the crises in Iraq, Gaza and Libya for 15 August. “It is well that the EU has decided, as Italy and later France recently urged, to assemble all […]

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Press Releases

10 August 2014

Mideast: Mogherini calls for common EU initiative and FAC meeting on Iraq and Libya

Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini cited the need for a common EU position on the crises in Gaza, Iraq and Libya. “It is good that every country takes action on the Gaza tragedy, as Germany, France and Great Britain have done, and as Italy has done and continues to do in meetings this week, […]

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Interviews

7 August 2014

Mogherini: “La Ue ha dado una respuesta fuerte y conjunta… ahora la pelota esta’ en la cancha rusa” (El Mercurio)

Qual è l’obiettivo della sua visita in Cile? Devo dire che tra le tante fatte in questi mesi, la visita in Cile ha per me un valore particolare. Innanzitutto perché ci uniscono all’America Latina rapporti antichi e saldissimi, con tanti italiani che hanno lasciato il loro Paese, sono venuti in qui e hanno contribuito con […]

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Interviews

7 August 2014

Mogherini: “La Ue ha dado una respuesta fuerte y conjunta… ahora la pelota esta’ en la cancha rusa” (El Mercurio)

Qual è l’obiettivo della sua visita in Cile? Devo dire che tra le tante fatte in questi mesi, la visita in Cile ha per me un valore particolare. Innanzitutto perché ci uniscono all’America Latina rapporti antichi e saldissimi, con tanti italiani che hanno lasciato il loro Paese, sono venuti in qui e hanno contribuito con […]

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Interviews

6 August 2014

Pistelli: «L’Ue ci segua sugli aiuti» (Avvenire)

Non è solo un gesto simbolico quello compiuto ieri dall’Italia per Gaza. «Le necessità della Striscia in questo momento sono enormi. I soccorsi che abbiamo portato hanno, dunque, un valore pratico importante», afferma il vice-ministro Lapo Pistelli, a Gerusalemme per consegnare 30 tonnellate di beni di prima necessità, per un valore di 350mila euro. Il […]

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Interviews

6 August 2014

Pistelli: «L’Ue ci segua sugli aiuti» (Avvenire)

Non è solo un gesto simbolico quello compiuto ieri dall’Italia per Gaza. «Le necessità della Striscia in questo momento sono enormi. I soccorsi che abbiamo portato hanno, dunque, un valore pratico importante», afferma il vice-ministro Lapo Pistelli, a Gerusalemme per consegnare 30 tonnellate di beni di prima necessità, per un valore di 350mila euro. Il […]

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Press Releases

29 July 2014

Ukraine: The new sanctions send a strong signal to Russia, says Mogherini

The new sanctions approved today in Brussels send a strong, unified signal to Russia to keep to the commitments made in recent months. This was the view of Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini, who commented: “The European Union decided unanimously today to apply new sanctions to Russia. This step has become necessary in view of Moscow’s […]

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28 July 2014

Mogherini in Belgrade and Podgorica – “Ahead with EU integration and reforms”

The process of EU integration and reforms, as well as bilateral relations, were the focus of Minister Federica Mogherini’s meetings in Serbia and Podgorica, on the final leg of her mission to the Balkans. At the end of the meeting in Belgrade with her Serbian colleague Ivica Dacic, Mogherini expressed the hope that Serbia would […]

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24 July 2014

Mogherini on Balkans mission – first stop Sarajevo, then Pristina, Skopje and Tirana

Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini stopped in Sarajevo on the first leg of a mission to the Balkans that will later take her to Pristina, Skopje and Tirana. The minister met in the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina with the three-member Presidency and her counterpart Zlatko Lagumdzija, and attended a conference promoted by the European Union […]

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Press Releases

24 July 2014

IUnder-Secretary Della Vedova chairs 11th EU – FYROM Association Council

Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Sen. Benedetto Della Vedova chaired the 11th European Union-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Association Council in the place of High Representative Catherine Ashton. The plenary session, attended also by the representatives of several Member States, was followed by a closed session with Commissioner Fuele, the Council Secretariat and FYROM Foreign Minister […]

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