{"id":14881,"date":"2013-12-09T13:38:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T12:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2013\/12\/20131209_boninoincontrastampaestera-2\/"},"modified":"2013-12-09T13:38:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T12:38:32","slug":"20131209_boninoincontrastampaestera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2013\/12\/20131209_boninoincontrastampaestera\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonino meets with the foreign press &#8211; Ukraine must avoid civil war. Last chance in Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>In Ukraine \u201cthe absolute priority is to avoid civil war and calm a situation that could become explosive\u201d, asserted Minister Emma Bonino in a meeting with the foreign press, specifying that a representative of the European Union would be in Kiev in the coming days. \u201cEurope will try for new negotiations\u201d, she explained, expressing the hope that a \u201ccompromise\u201d would be struck as soon possible.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Iran<\/STRONG><STRONG>: goal successful accord and new phase <\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>After the agreement with Iran, the goal is that \u201cthe accord succeeds and that a new phase begins\u201d. On the Iranian nuclear programme, the \u201croad to pursue is prudence, a 6-month agreement with intrusive monitoring\u201d. Our policy with the new Iranian leadership, Bonino added, has to be \u201cgo and see\u201d.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Middle East<\/STRONG><STRONG>: if Kerry can\u2019t succeed no one can <\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>On the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, \u201cif US Secretary of State John Kerry can\u2019t succeed, no one else will have the strength, the hope or the energy to do so\u201d. \u201cThis is the last possible chance\u201d, for Israelis and Palestinians who, moreover, are not exactly enjoying \u201ca rosy scenario\u201d.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>EU: Austerity is a means not an end<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>\u201cAusterity is a means, not an end\u201d, the minister pointed out, commenting on Europe\u2019s insistence on budgetary discipline with regard to individual national economic policies. \u201cThe efforts that the Italian government and citizens are making should be acknowledged, if not we\u2019ll have the paradox of the treatment that killed the patient\u201d. Once accounts have been put in order, \u201c growth policies have to be imposed, and not only for Italy\u201d. A growth policy that Germany also needs, which otherwise would risk \u201cgrowing in a desert\u201d. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Mare Nostrum: Italy alone only through December at most <\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Regarding the migrations from North Africa, Italy can take \u201cunilateral\u201d responsibility for the Mare Nostrum operation \u201conly through December\u201d. \u201cAt that point the question will become whether the concern is European or must remain a national problem, something that we consider irresponsible\u201d, Bonino added, specifying that Italy had proposed that the EU study a response along the lines of the European counter-piracy operation Atalanta.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Induced delivery: legal and not political solution needed <\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>The case of the Italian woman subjected to Caesarean section by a judge in England, \u201cneeds a legal solution, and must not be politicised\u201d, the minister said, repeating that the woman had appealed only recently to the consulate, which would not fail to offer assistance.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Ukraine \u201cthe absolute priority is to avoid civil war and calm a situation that could become explosive\u201d, asserted Minister Emma Bonino in a meeting with the foreign press, specifying that a representative of the European Union would be in Kiev in the coming days. \u201cEurope will try for new negotiations\u201d, she explained, expressing the [&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-14881","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\/14881","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=14881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}