Sanctions against the Egyptian Government? \u201cIt depends what you\u2019re referring to. I hope to see military supplies being blocked. I don\u2019t think economic sanctions are what will make the difference. All the programmes we have, apart from government-to-government programmes, are for social purposes more than anything else. It seems to me that in<\/A> terms of volume they don’t have that much influence\u201d. These were Foreign Minister Emma Bonino\u2019s comments on her arrival in Brussels for the EU Foreign Affairs Council extraordinary meeting on Egypt. <\/P> Clash within the Sunni family<\/STRONG><\/P> \u201cI think there\u2019s a vital need to review what\u2019s happening in the Arab world and reconsider our position not just on Egypt. Because what\u2019s happening, in my opinion, is a major clash within the Sunni \u2018family\u2019 \u2013 in addition to the traditional Sunni-Shiite discord and with implications that must at least be considered. This isn\u2019t an Italy-Egypt or EU-Egypt problem. It\u2019s much more. The balance of strength has been completely transformed\u201d, added Minister Bonino<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sanctions against the Egyptian Government? \u201cIt depends what you\u2019re referring to. I hope to see military supplies being blocked. I don\u2019t think economic sanctions are what will make the difference. All the programmes we have, apart from government-to-government programmes, are for social purposes more than anything else. It seems to me that in terms of […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6,76,42],"class_list":["post-16156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente","tag-ministri-precedenti","tag-unione-europea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16156","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=16156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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