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Press Releases
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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4 July 2014
Lisbon – Portugal celebrates the Italian semester with music and art

Lisbon joins other capitals in celebrating Italy’s EU Presidency semester, which opened with a speech by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to the European Parliament. Young people from Italy and Portugal are taking part in music and art events organised by the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute. The programme will be a celebration of […]

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Interviews
4 July 2014
20th MedFilm Festival (la Repubblica Roma)

With the support of the President of the Republic within the Italian EU Presidency Held from 4 to 11 July in Rome’s House of Cinema and MAXXI Museum The MedFilm Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, confirming the appropriateness of an intuition to promote cultural dialogue among the countries along the Mediterranean Sea, starting […]

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3 July 2014
Mogherini in Parliament – Foreign policy priorities: our EU Presidency and crises from Ukraine to the Middle East

Our foreign policy priorities and the role Italy intends to play to open a new stage in Europe’s foreign policy. These were the focus of Minister Mogherini’s hearing on Italy’s EU Presidency before the Chamber and Senate Foreign Affairs Committees. The priorities include a geographical region stretching from Ukraine to Russia to the Middle East […]

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3 July 2014
Londra – Semestre italiano: parte da musica programma Ambasciata in Gb (in translation)

L’apertura del semestre italiano di Presidenza Ue sarà celebrata oggi a Londra con un concerto organizzato, su impulso dell’Ambasciatore d’Italia Pasquale Terracciano, nella chiesa di St.John in Smith Square, a Westminster, cuore politico del Regno Unito. Ad esibirsi davanti a personalità del mondo politico, del corpo diplomatico, della City, saranno i giovani musicisti del Conservatorio […]

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Interviews
3 July 2014
Giro: «L’America Latina occasione per la Ue» (l’Unità)

Sono le squadre latinoamericane la rivelazione del mondiale brasiliano, l’immagine sportiva della vitalità che il subcontinente ha conosciuto negli ultimi dieci anni, quando l’America Latina ha interpretato un ruolo internazionale di maggiore indipendenza ed assertività. Importanti i risultati concreti: nel subcontinente la classe media è cresciuta del 60% e il numero dei poveri è sceso […]

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Press Releases
1 July 2014
Death penalty: first Task Force meeting at Farnesina. Moratorium campaign to be an EU Presidency priority, says Mogherini

Italy is taking forward the battle for a universal moratorium on the death penalty. Today at the Farnesina, Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini chaired the first meeting of the task force that will coordinate Italy’s action in the run-up to the United Nations vote on a new resolution. Participants included representatives of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) Amnesty […]

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Press Releases
1 July 2014
Ucraina: Mogherini sente Klimkin, Lavrov, Burkhalter e Zannier. Necessario al più presto nuovo round negoziati a tre

Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini discussed the crisis in Ukraine in a series of telephone conversations today, the first day of the Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The Minister spoke to her Ukrainian and Russian colleagues, Pavlo Klimkin and Serghei Lavrov, and to the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation […]

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1 July 2014
Balkans – Enlargement will be a central theme of the Italian EU Presidency

“Enlargement towards the Balkans will be a central theme of the Italian Presidency of the European Union”. The point was confirmed by the Italian Ambassador in Sarajevo, Ruggero Corrias, at the close of his meeting with the Croatian member of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia Herzegovina, Zeljko Komsic. The meeting took place in the run-up […]

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30 June 2014
EU: Presidency ‘Trio’ – working together for growth and development, looking to the East and South

The first of July “is the starting date for the 3 Union Presidencies in succession – Italy, Latvia and Luxembourg – which are already working together and aim to achieve growth and jobs, especially for the younger generations”. They also intend to “strengthen Europe’s global and regional role”. These were Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini’s comments […]

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