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10 March 2016

Gentiloni in Malta: Libya and migration crisis on the agenda

The migration crisis, fighting terrorism and Libya are the major issues on the agenda of the meetings that Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni will have today at La Valletta, in addition to the bilateral relations between Italy and Malta. Minister Gentiloni is scheduled to meet with his colleague George Vella, the President of the Republic Marie […]

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Press Releases

5 March 2016

Note of the Farnesina on the migration plan

Italy understands Switzerland’s need to follow up on the popular referendum on migration issues called two years ago but believes that this must be done in close contact with the European Commission so as to single out solutions taking into consideration the people’s will on the one hand and the need not to discriminate European […]

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4 March 2016

Erasmus, Italian student wins first European scholarship to Iran

A 21-year-old woman from Cagliari, Valentina Simeone, is the first European student to enter Tehran University with an Erasmus scholarship after she outclassed colleagues from other nine EU universities. The European Union has decided to broaden the horizons of cultural exchange by granting 136 funded scholarships to young people from Iran, Iraq and Yemen for […]

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Interviews

29 February 2016

Gentiloni: “L’Europa è sull’orlo del precipizio” (Handelsblatt)

Traduzione dell’intervista rilasciata dal Ministro Paolo Gentiloni all’Handelsblatt Il Ministro degli Esteri italiano parla della crisi dei rifugiati. Il Ministero degli Esteri a Roma è un enorme palazzo bianco, con 1.300 stanze. Nello Studio del Ministro, le alti pareti bianche lasciano ampio spazio all’arte moderna. Gentiloni, esperto di comunicazione, ci pensa un po’ ma poi […]

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26 February 2016

Med Group in Cyprus puts focus on regional crises

The Syrian and Libyan crises and their consequences on the phenomena of migration and terrorism will be the focus of the yearly meeting of the Med Group foreign ministers which will be held today in Cyprus with the participation of Minister Paolo Gentiloni and his colleagues from  Spain, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus and Malta, the French […]

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Press Releases

25 February 2016

Minister Gentiloni meets with Heads of Mission of the EU member states

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni attended an institutional meeting with the Heads of Mission of the EU member states, hosted by the Ambassador of the Netherlands for the current Presidency of the EU Council. The meeting was an opportunity to reiterate Italy’s stance on key issues regarding Europe and the crisis […]

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Press Releases

25 February 2016

Gentiloni holds telephone conversation with the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni held a telephone conversation with the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Kotzias.   “Italy,” Minister Gentiloni said, “believes unilateral initiatives on immigration to be dangerous and does not share any position aimed at having one single Country, such as Greece, bear the responsibility of facing […]

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22 February 2016

Foreign Minister Gentiloni in Turkey

Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni will be in Turkey from February 21 to 23 to attend a bilateral meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Çavuşoğlu and the third meeting of the High Level Partnership Forum on Somalia. Only a few months after the talks in Brussels on the sidelines of the NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting of […]

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Press Releases

18 February 2016

Communique on establishing the sea border between Italy and France

On the issue of establishing the sea border between Italy and France, which has been the subject of parliamentary questions as well as several press reports, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recalls the points raised in the reply given by Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Benedetto della Vedova to parliamentary question no. 2-01268 of 12th February.The […]

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18 February 2016

Il Ministro Gentiloni in missione ad Atene

Tematiche politiche, ma anche aspetti economico-commerciali ed energetici, migrazioni, crisi siriana e questione cipriota, oltre alla promozione degli interessi delle aziende italiane. Sono stati i temi al centro della missione di oggi ad Atene del Ministro degli Esteri Paolo Gentiloni, la prima bilaterale di un capo della diplomazia italiana dal 2005. Il Ministro Gentiloni ha […]

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18 February 2016

Foreign Minister Gentiloni on mission in Athens

Political, economic, commercial and energy issues, migration, the Syrian crisis and the Cyprus question, in addition to promoting the interests of Italian companies, were central in Foreign Minister Gentiloni’s agenda during his mission to Athens today. It was the first bilateral meeting for an Italian foreign minister since 2005. Minister Gentiloni met with the President […]

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12 February 2016

Sarajevo – Italy and Bosnia discuss progress towards EU membership

Italian Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ruggero Corrias, recently met Deputy President of Bosnia’s Chamber of Deputies, Sefik Džaferović. During the meeting, they exchanged views on the country’s path to EU membership, stressing the need for Bosnia-Herzegovina to press ahead in its efforts to align with European standards also after submitting a formal application for EU membership. […]

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