\u201cAccording to the provisions of the Stability Law, the Italian EU presidency is going to cost 56 million euro, and, on the impetus of Premier Enrico Letta, will have not only Rome as its centre of gravity, but also Milan\u201d. The statement came from Ambassador Luigi Mattiolo, head of the MFA\u2019s Directorate General for the EU, who spoke of a \u201crigorous selection of events\u201d that would not fail to highlight \u201cItalian excellence\u201d, and would have the two-fold objective of \u201censuring adequate organisation and reducing operating costs\u201d.<\/P>
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Meetings and ASEM summit, \u201claunching pad\u201d for Expo<\/STRONG><\/P> Informal ministerial meetings and an ASEM summit to be held in mid-October, with the participation of 50 European and Asian countries, will also serve as a \u201claunching pad\u201d for the 2015 Milan Expo. Over recent years, recalled Minister Gabriele Altana, head of the delegation for the organisation of the presidency, spending on the rotating presidency has ranged from Denmark\u2019s 40 million to France\u2019s 170 million. Greece is planning to spend 50 million. <\/P> Adriatic-Ionian Strategy a priority<\/STRONG><\/P> \u201cOne of the mainstays\u201d of the Italian EU presidency will be the Adriatic-Ionian Strategy to be adopted by the presidency\u2019s concluding Council, Ambassador Mattiolo underscored during the Senate briefing. This is a strategy that \u201cfor the first time unites member and non-member States\u201d, he explained, pointing out that, although not a \u201csubstitute for enlargement\u201d, it would be an extremely important achievement.<\/P> An \u201cespecially intense\u201d term<\/STRONG><\/P> Italy\u2019s presidency term, Mattiolo added, is going to be \u201cespecially intense\u201d, not least in light of its intersection with the NATO summit and the new UN General Assembly session.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAccording to the provisions of the Stability Law, the Italian EU presidency is going to cost 56 million euro, and, on the impetus of Premier Enrico Letta, will have not only Rome as its centre of gravity, but also Milan\u201d. The statement came from Ambassador Luigi Mattiolo, head of the MFA\u2019s Directorate General for the […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,9,42],"class_list":["post-14334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diplomazia-economica","tag-europa","tag-unione-europea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14334","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=14334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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