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1 April 2014
Italy-Serbia – Twinning agreement by Agriculture Ministries

A twinning agreement on the “Implementation of sustainable use of plant protection products and establishing systems for regular technical inspection of pesticide application equipment” has been signed by the Serbian and Italian Ministries of Agriculture. The agreement is one of Italy’s initiatives to support Serbia’s EU integration process and a strand of the two countries’ […]

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1 April 2014
Immigrazione: Della Vedova, politiche europee è l’obiettivo (in translation)

”L’Europa deve, ancor di più di quanto sta già facendo, che non è poco, considerare le politiche per l’immigrazione delle politiche europee”. Questo l’auspicio espresso dal sottosegretario agli Esteri, Benedetto Della Vedova, intervenendo al dibattito su ”L’Europa e le politiche di migrazione” promossa a Napoli dalla rappresentanza in Italia della Commissione europea. ”Questo perchè – […]

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31 March 2014
Full throttle Putin

“Full throttle Putin”: the Russian president, his Crimea decision and relations with Ukraine, takes top billing in the latest issue of Longitude, the geopolitical magazine directed by Pialuisa Bianco and on newsstands as of 5 April. Other focuses include ”The twisting roads of Arab transition” and “Erdogan’s Turkey”. The ”Fiscal Compact” according to Bini Smaghi […]

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Press Releases
26 March 2014
Italian Cooperation passes OECD peer review

“If it is true that exams are never-ending, it is always a pleasure to pass one”. This was the reaction of Deputy Foreign Minister Lapo Pistelli at the conclusion of a peer review of the Italian Development Cooperation by the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC). The reviewers expressed great appreciation for the changes set in […]

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Press Releases
24 March 2014
Bruxelles, Giro a conferenza sociale Euro-Latinoamericana

“On behalf of Italy, I wish to express my satisfaction over the results of the exchange programme on Latin American and European Union social policies (EUROsociAL)”. This was Under-Secretary Mario Giro’s comment at the conference, also attended by his counterparts from Spain, Germany and France, on the results of the EUROsociAL programme in Brussels. “The […]

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Interviews
23 March 2014
“Russia must resume collaboration”, says Mogherini (Corriere della Sera)

The Foreign Minister explains the Italian position and the priorities in the crisis on Europe’s doorstep “The end-point in the Ukrainian crisis must be Russia’s return to its role of global, responsible international partner. And the only way to achieve that is to keep the diplomacy channel open. Russia itself has an interest in being […]

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18 March 2014
No decision to abandon G8 – Concern over fate of Venezuela and its Italians, Ambassador summoned

The situation in Crimea and Ukraine, the crisis in Venezuela, relations with Lebanon and Italy’s commitment in Afghanistan. These were the main topics addressed during Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini’s address to the Chamber and Senate Foreign Affairs Committees today. Minister Mogherini reiterated that “the annexation of Crimea is a grave deterioration in the crisis and […]

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17 March 2014
Ukraine: EU-US response – EU measures, door to dialogue not closed, says Mogherini

The “illegitimate” and “illegal” nature of the referendum held in Crimea on Moscow’s impetus was voiced in the unified responses of Europe and the United States. The “message to Moscow is to avoid any further action needed to annex Crimea”, Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini said. The response consists of several measures but also […]

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Press Releases
16 March 2014
Ucraina: Mogherini, ancora possibile fermare crisi. Russia non annetta Crimea

Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini expressed deep concern over the consequences of the referendum for the secession of Crimea. “Italy, along with its European partners, considers the referendum on the secession of Crimea illegitimate, and supports the resolution discussed yesterday in the United Nations Security Council”, Minister Mogherini stated from Brussels, where she had […]

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Press Releases
13 March 2014
Ukraine: Mogherini, every effort at dialogue or Monday EU’s inevitabile reaction

Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini took part in a conference call today on the Ukraine crisis, whose other participants included UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, US Secretary of State John Kerry, EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Catherine Ashton, British Foreign Secretary William Hague, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, […]

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