{"id":16475,"date":"2013-07-02T07:11:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T05:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2013\/07\/20130702_bonino_passione_europa-2\/"},"modified":"2013-07-02T07:11:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T05:11:35","slug":"20130702_bonino_passione_europa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2013\/07\/20130702_bonino_passione_europa\/","title":{"rendered":"EUROPE &#8211; Bonino: Rekindling the pro-Europe passion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>It is necessary to rekindle the \u201cpro-Europe passion\u201d, without giving in to \u201cpessimism\u201d, since \u201cthere is no alternative\u201d to the EU. Minister Bonino spoke at the foreign ministry in Rome during the dedication of a hall to Ambassador Silvio Fagiolo, one of the leaders in the formation of the European Community and who recently passed away.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Italian EU Presidency will bring the attention back to European policy, says Bonino<\/STRONG> <\/P><br \/>\n<P>\u201cWe have to jump-start this stalled engine\u201d, Bonino asserted, pointing out that our continent was, in any case, in the avant-garde in the world \u201cin culture, social welfare, literacy and technological potential\u201d. So \u201cenough of feeling sorry for ourselves\u201d, she began, speaking mainly to the young diplomats present in the newly dedicated hall, encouraging them to make Ambassador Fagiolo\u2019s passions their own. \u201cOne year from now we will take over the EU Presidency (July 1 2014), which will \u201cserve to bring the attention back to European policy\u201d, the minister assured.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Silvio Fagiolo active as few others have been in the drafting of treaties, says Valensise<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>The Foreign Ministry\u2019s Secretary General Michele Valensise underscored that \u201cat such an uncertain stage for Europe we need the contribution of ideas like those of Ambassador Fagiolo, who was active as few others have ever been in the drafting of treaties, from Maastricht to Lisbon\u201d.<\/P>Also present at the dedication were Deputy Minister Marta Dass\u00f9, DIS Director Giampiero Massolo and former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini, for whose Private Staff Fagiolo had been chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is necessary to rekindle the \u201cpro-Europe passion\u201d, without giving in to \u201cpessimism\u201d, since \u201cthere is no alternative\u201d to the EU. Minister Bonino spoke at the foreign ministry in Rome during the dedication of a hall to Ambassador Silvio Fagiolo, one of the leaders in the formation of the European Community and who recently passed [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[76,42],"class_list":["post-16475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-ministri-precedenti","tag-unione-europea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16475","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=16475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}