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Interviews
7 January 2014
Bonino: «Emma Bonino: l`Union européenne ne donne pas la priorité aux questions de sécurité» (Le Figaro)

Commissaire européenne à l’Action humanitaire de 1995 à 1999, Emma Bonino est ministre des Affaires étrangères de l’Italie. De retour d’Iran, où elle vient d’effectuer la première visite d’un ministre occidental depuis dix ans, elle repart lundi pour une tournée en Afrique. En avril dernier, vous déclariez que la France avait bien fait d’intervenir militairement […]

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2 January 2014
Longitude: “The year of Europe”

“The year of Europe”: per l’Europa il nuovo Anno che comincia è un vero e proprio “giro di boa’’; dal luglio 2014 l’Italia deterrà la Presidenza Ue; sarà rinnovato il Parlamento europeo, ci sarà un nuovo governo (Commissione), continua ad essere aperto il cantiere delle riforme, in parte già realizzate sul piano economico. La copertina […]

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2 January 2014
Longitude: “The year of Europe”

The Dream of a Europe of and for its peoples must prevail over that of the various forms of populism, writes Prime Minister Enrico Letta in the editorial comment in Longitude, edited by Pialuisa Bianco. The January edition, which will hit the newsstands on 6 January 2014, is dedicated to Europe and the Italian Presidency […]

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27 December 2013
Bonino at Radio Radicale forum – Iran: Rowhani window will not be open forever

“The partial Rowhani/Sarif window will not be open forever”. For that reason, the time factor in the West’s dialogue with Iran “is essential”. This was one of the key passages in Minister Emma Bonino’s speech at a forum organised by Radio Radicale. The tensions in Turkey and transition in the Middle East, as well as […]

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Interviews
27 December 2013
The Bonino Method

This year-end conversation takes place on the eve of the return of Alma Shalabayeva and her small daughter Alua, an odyssey that should never have begun. A seven-month odyssey marked by strident dispute and silent, painstaking intercession. The foreign ministry was bypassed at the moment of deportation by an obliging interior ministry. Italian ambassador to […]

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18 December 2013
We hope to see more EU coordination in defence sector, says Bonino

European defence policies, the crisis in South Sudan, Egypt’s transition and the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons. These were the main issues covered by Foreign Minister Emma Bonino in her address to the Senate and Chamber’s joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Committees. The hearing, in which Defence Minister Mario Mauro also took part, was intended […]

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Press Releases
18 December 2013
Serbia-EU: Bonino welcomes Brussels’ decision to open accession negotiations

“Great satisfaction” was Foreign Minister Emma Bonino’s reaction to the decision by the European Union’s General Affairs Council of 17 December 2013 to open negotiations for Serbia’s EU accession. The talks will start in January 2014 with the first Inter-Governmental Conference. “This is a historic moment for Serbia and the Balkans”, declared Minister Bonino. “Italy […]

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16 December 2013
EU: Foreign Affairs Council – Syrian chemical weapons to pass through Italian port

Syria’s chemical weapons will be passing through an Italian port, with the selection of the precise place being decided – and notified to the Italian Parliament – by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemic Weapons (OPWC). The announcement was made by Foreign Minister Emma Bonino at the end of the European Union’s Foreign Affairs […]

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16 December 2013
EU Foreign Affairs Council, Bonino in Brussels – Focus on Iran, Eastern Partnership, EU-Russia relations

Iran, Syria, Lebanon, the Eastern Partnership, EU-Russia relations, the Central African Republic, the Western Balkans and Burma, are on the agenda of the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels – Iran being at the top of the list. EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton will outline the contents of the recent nuclear agreement […]

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Press Releases
12 December 2013
EU: committed to a new “shared development grammar”, says Pistelli

Deputy Foreign Minister Pistelli participated in a meeting of the Development Council in Brussels, during which he spoke on the strategic goals of the post-2015 agenda, post-MDGs and the EU’s position in the multilateral negotiating process of the United Nations; on EU resources for aid to developing countries from 2014 to 2020 following the European […]

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12 December 2013
Bonino: Together to build the futureStrengthened dialogue, concrete programme, perfected work method

At the Conclusion of the 6th Italy-Latin America and Caribbean Conference, held at the foreign ministry in Rome Minister Emma Bonino took stock of the two days of intense work: “strengthened” dialogue, “defined and concrete” plans and a “perfected” work method. The decision to open the conference to the collaboration of all the member countries […]

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