{"id":13511,"date":"2014-04-05T09:22:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T07:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2014\/04\/20140405_moggymncalm-2\/"},"modified":"2014-04-05T09:22:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T07:22:56","slug":"20140405_moggymncalm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2014\/04\/20140405_moggymncalm\/","title":{"rendered":"Mogherini at informal EU ministers meeting on Ukraine crisis, \u201ckeep calm and carry on\u201d. Focus on Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>\u201cKeep calm and carry on\u201d was how Minister Mogherini summarised the informal EU foreign ministers meeting on Ukraine held in Athens, considering \u201cphase two\u201d of the sanctions sufficient. The third phase is being prepared but will only go into effect if further steps are taken to destabilise Ukraine\u201d, said Mogherini, explaining however that it must not come to that, since that would mean the failure of Europe\u2019s diplomatic strategy. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>\u201cNeither relax nor react&#8221;<\/STRONG><\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>\u201cOur task is to avoid getting to the point of having to apply them\u201d, said the minister, according to whom the \u201cEU is doing what it must\u201d, and that it was therefore essential \u201cneither to relax nor react\u201d. The priority must be to \u201cavoid a domino effect and the further destabilisation in Ukraine\u201d. Of course, if the EU\u2019s efforts fail \u201cthen there will surely be consequences, but they will be in reaction to our political failure\u201d. But the Ukraine crisis, Minister Mogherini underscored, also risks overshadowing other neighbourhood policy fronts such as the Mediterranean, particularly the situations in Syria and Libya, and concerns for refugees. \u201cThe Mediterranean must remain a prime focus\u201d, the minister underscored. <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cKeep calm and carry on\u201d was how Minister Mogherini summarised the informal EU foreign ministers meeting on Ukraine held in Athens, considering \u201cphase two\u201d of the sanctions sufficient. The third phase is being prepared but will only go into effect if further steps are taken to destabilise Ukraine\u201d, said Mogherini, explaining however that it must [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,6,76,42],"class_list":["post-13511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-europa","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente","tag-ministri-precedenti","tag-unione-europea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}