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10 July 2014
Balkans: Mogherini in Dubrovnik – Forum on promoting the region’s European integration

Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini takes part in the 9th “Croatia Forum”, an international summit held in Dubrovnik and dedicated to the Balkans region and prospects for European integration. Participants in this year’s edition, which concludes tomorrow Friday 11 July, include 18 EU foreign ministers, diplomats from the US, China, Russia and Japan, and […]

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10 July 2014
EU: Uto Ughi in Moscow, concert for start of Italian EU Presidency

With the hope that the “next six months will be guided by that which unites and not divides” Russia and the European Union, Uto Ughi conducted a concert yesterday evening at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre for the opening of the Italian EU Presidency, with Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini attending. The power to unite Arriving […]

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9 July 2014
Ukraine: Mogherini meets with Putin – Support for “truce” also from Moscow. Mission accomplished after talks in Kiev

Mission accomplished, culminating with a meeting at the Kremlin with President Vladimir Putin. Abroad on her first journey for the Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, holding talks in Kiev and then in Moscow, Minister Federica Mogherini garnered those countries’ leaders’ agreement with the message of Italy and the EU: that the […]

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9 July 2014
EU Presidency – Italy says stop to food waste with “Siticibo”

The Italian EU Presidency opened with a watchful eye on food waste. Indeed, an important agreement was recently signed with the Food Bank involving the catering companies providing for the Presidency events. Thanks to the Food Bank’s “Siticibo” programme, it will be possible to recover much of what is left over from official delegation dinners […]

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9 July 2014
Ukraine: Mogherini in Moscow for talks with Putin – Minister’s meeting with her Russian colleague focuses on ceasefire

The process of finding a solution to the Ukraine crisis cannot be launched without “an immediate ceasefire”. This priority was the central concern of Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini’s mission to Kiev and Moscow, which she shared with Ukraine leaders and now with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, ahead of her meeting today at […]

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8 July 2014
Kiev accoglie messaggio Italia-Ue – Mogherini, priorità ‘cessate fuoco bilaterale’. Oggi incontro con Putin (in translation)

Il messaggio dell’Italia a Kiev e a Mosca è lo stesso: usare tutti gli strumenti diplomatici necessari all’interno dell’Ucraina e nella regione per arrivare ad un “cessate il fuoco bilaterale”, al controllo delle frontiere, al disarmo dell’est, al rilascio di tutti gli ostaggi, al libero lavoro dei giornalisti all’est. Contemporaneamente agevolare l”’implementazione” dell’accordo di associazione […]

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8 July 2014
Estonia – Concert in Tallinn for launch of Italian EU Presidency

The Embassy of Italy in Tallinn celebrated the start of the Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union with a concert dedicated to Italian opera. The musical programme included works by Gaetano Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini sung by five Italian artists selected through the collaboration of the Donizetti Foundation of Bergamo […]

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8 July 2014
Poland – The “Notte della taranta” in Warsaw

Warsaw hosted the “Notte della Taranta” in celebration of the start of the Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union within the context of the city’s 14th Musical Gardens Festival, which was dedicated this year almost exclusively to Italy. Read more, in Italian

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8 July 2014
Paris – Music and poetry launch Italian duty presidency

Music, art and poetry formed the centrepiece of a 2-day cultural event in Paris, where the Embassy of Italy and Italian Cultural Institute celebrated the launch of the Italian duty Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Pianist Gloria Campaner opened the festivities in the 18th century Sicilian theatre at the diplomatic mission, performing […]

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7 July 2014
Mogherini at Kiev, “here to support dialogue” – “Bilateral ceasefire” focus of talks with Ukraine premier

As Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini explained at the end of her meeting with Premier Arseniy Yatsenyuk, she was in Kiev to “support the path of dialogue” which, “although difficult and complicated” was “still open”. She explained that she had asked the premier to work together on a “bilateral ceasefire”. Mogherini also announced that […]

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7 July 2014
Mogherini in Kiev and Moscow – First Italian EU Presidency mission

Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini began a 4-day mission that will take her first to Kiev and then to Moscow, her first since undertaking the presidency of the Council of the European Union on July 1st. Minister Mogherini is scheduled to meet in Kiev with Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and the following day with […]

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4 July 2014
Pistelli in Eastern Africa: AU a major interlocutor

The African Union gave the green light to the idea of dialogue between the EU and Eastern Africa, including Egypt and Libya. The aim of the initiative, promoted by Italy and supported by the European Commission, is the joint management of migration flows with the countries of origin and transit as part of a more […]

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