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14 June 2013
Italy-Serbia: Bonino visiting Belgrade on 18 June – European integration, regional cooperation and bilateral relations

The outlook for closer European integration for Serbia, regional cooperation, the Kosovo question and bilateral relations. These are the topics for Foreign Minister Emma Bonino’s discussions with the Serbian leadership in Belgrade on 18 June. During the visit, her first outside Italy apart from institutional ones, for example on EU business, minister Bonino will meet […]

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13 June 2013
Turkey: failed accession would be a strategic loss for Europe

Turkey’s entry to Europe “is by no means simple”. It is a “very long process subject to numerous conditions but, in the longer term, losing Turkey would be a strategic loss for Europe”. Speaking in an interview with RadioUno on 13 June, Deputy Minister Marta Dassù reiterated Italy’s favourable view of keeping talks open on […]

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13 June 2013
The Farnesina opens its doors to contemporary Irish art

The Farnesina opens its doors to contemporary Irish art. The “40/40/40” exhibition, consisting of works from the Irish State Collection, opens here at the Foreign Ministry today, Thursday 13 June 2013. The exhibition was organised by the Irish Embassy in Italy, the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the Office of Public Works. […]

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Interviews
10 June 2013
Intervista al Ministro Bonino (derStardard.at) (versione originale)

Italiens Außenministerin: EU stärkt Souveränität der Partnerländer Rom/Wien – In jedem Wahlkampf warnen populistische Parteien in ganz Europa vor einem Verlust der eigenen Souveränität durch die EU – ein Gedanke, für den Italiens neue Außen­ministerin Emma Bonino nichts übrighat: “Wir müssen realistisch sein: Heutzutage kann kein europäisches Land wirklich glauben, alles selbst machen zu können”, […]

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Interviews
10 June 2013
Intervista al Ministro Bonino (derStardard.at) (versione originale)

Italiens Außenministerin: EU stärkt Souveränität der Partnerländer Rom/Wien – In jedem Wahlkampf warnen populistische Parteien in ganz Europa vor einem Verlust der eigenen Souveränität durch die EU – ein Gedanke, für den Italiens neue Außen­ministerin Emma Bonino nichts übrighat: “Wir müssen realistisch sein: Heutzutage kann kein europäisches Land wirklich glauben, alles selbst machen zu können”, […]

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7 June 2013
BUSINESS – Infrastructure, energy, tourism: large-scale projects in Serbia and Montenegro

Infrastructure, energy, tourism are the main economic development aspects currently concerning Serbia and Monenegro, two nations geographically and traditionally linked with Italy and that are also EU candidate countries. These three sectors, and investment opportunities in the Balkans in general, were the central focus of a business mission organised in recent weeks by Confindustria in […]

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Press Releases
6 June 2013
Foreign Minister Emma Bonino meets with Elisabeth Guigou, President of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the French National Assembly

Foreign Minister Emma Bonino met today with President of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the French National Assembly Elisabeth Guigou. Their discussions concerned international and European current events. Ahead of the June European Council, Minister Bonino and Elisabeth Guigou reviewed, first and foremost, the need to effectively link economic recovery with growth, fully agreeing on […]

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Interviews
6 June 2013
Bonino: «Europe is confused. I’m not » (Tempi)

“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 […]

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Interviews
5 June 2013
Bonino: «The EU must speak up, Turkish democracy is at stake» (Il Mattino)

Water 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 […]

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3 June 2013
LONGITUDE: “Falling on deaf ears”

La 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 […]

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3 June 2013
LONGITUDE: “Falling on deaf ears”

The 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 […]

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