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30 May 2013
Croatia enters the EU – An Italian welcome with Caravaggio

Caravaggio’s masterpiece from 1606, The Supper at Emmaus, will be on loan for nearly three months to the Museum of Art and Crafts in Zagreb. The loan is being promoted by the Foreign Ministry and by the Italian Embassy in Croatia, with strong personal support from Ambassador Emanuela D’Alessandro. The painting, normally housed in the […]

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Press Releases
29 May 2013
MFA Secretary General Michele Valensise in consultations with Turkish Foreign Ministry Secretary General, Feridun Sinirlioglu.

Economic 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 […]

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Speeches
29 May 2013
Intervento del Vice Ministro Dassù al XV Adriatic-Ionian Council (versione originale)

(fa fede solo il testo effettivamente pronunciato)   Mister Chairman,Ministers, Vice Ministers,Colleagues,Secretary General,Special Guests,Ladies and Gentlemen, We are meeting in a period in which Europe is facing political, social and economic challenges that require a stronger sense of ownership of our common Institutions. Nonetheless, developments such as the recent agreement between Serbia and Kosovo have […]

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Speeches
29 May 2013
Intervento del Vice Ministro Dassù al XV Adriatic-Ionian Council (versione originale)

(fa fede solo il testo effettivamente pronunciato)   Mister Chairman,Ministers, Vice Ministers,Colleagues,Secretary General,Special Guests,Ladies and Gentlemen, We are meeting in a period in which Europe is facing political, social and economic challenges that require a stronger sense of ownership of our common Institutions. Nonetheless, developments such as the recent agreement between Serbia and Kosovo have […]

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29 May 2013
Dassù: «E’ il momento dell’Europa federale» (La Stampa) (in translation)

Caro direttore,le dichiarazioni di Francois Hollande sul tema dell`Unione Politica – più di una, nell` ultima settimana -hanno avuto un`accoglienza «mista». Alcuni vi hanno visto un modo per sparigliare le carte a livello europeo. Altri le hanno derubricate come una «mossa del cavallo» ispirata da considerazioni di politica interna. In fin dei conti, è irrilevante […]

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28 May 2013
‘Cocaine Route Programme’, il contrasto al narcotraffico targato UE (in translation)

Un mercato superiore ai 300 miliardi di dollari, occupato per un quarto delsuo valore dal traffico di cocaina e che ha nell’Africa Occidentale un nuovo, temibile crocevia. E’ contro questa rete illecita globale, che va dall’America Latina all’Europa, che l’Ue ha messo in campo il ‘Cocaine Route Programme’, progetto lanciato nel 2009 per rafforzare, attraverso […]

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27 May 2013
In Rome the EU considers the ‘Cocaine Route’ programme

Europe 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 […]

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23 May 2013
FORUM PA 2013: Europe closer to citizens as we approach the 2014 elections

Democratic deficit and strategies to bring citizens closer to the EU, in the run-up to the European elections in 2014. Those were the features of the Europe that emerged from today’s conference on “The European Union, European Citizenship, European Democracy: the position one year before the European elections in 2014”, organised by the Ministry of […]

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23 May 2013
The Conference: ‘European integration: an assessment’

The conference will be an opportunity to assess one of the crucial challenges to European integration: ensuring that European citizens can identify with their institutions through instruments guaranteeing decision-making processes based on transparency and participatory democracy. This means that fully applying the principle of European citizenship, in its widest sense, is vital to achieving full […]

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20 May 2013
Afghanistan: Italy facilitates EU Ambassadors’ visit to Herat

A group of over 20 European Union ambassadors accredited in Afghanistan took part in an unprecedented visit to Herat province, at the initiative of the Italian Embassy. They met the Governor of the Province, Daoud Shah Saba; the public prosecutor, Maria Bashir; and the head of Regional Command West (RC-W), Brigadier General Ignazio Gamba The Ambassadors […]

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Interviews
20 May 2013
Bonino: «A Federal Europe? It’s now or never» (Corriere della Sera)

ROME – “I take Francois Hollande’s openness very seriously. Whatever the reasons are, for the first time Paris is signaling a willingness to re-examine Europe that I like very much, because until a short time ago it was taboo to even talk about modifying the treaties. Obviously, the French President’s ideas presuppose at least a […]

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