{"id":56126,"date":"2015-03-31T17:31:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T15:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2015\/03\/italia-serbia-gentiloni-ue-apra-2\/"},"modified":"2015-03-31T17:31:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T15:31:42","slug":"italia-serbia-gentiloni-ue-apra-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2015\/03\/italia-serbia-gentiloni-ue-apra-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy\u2013Serbia: EU should open negotiating chapters within the year. \u201cWe cannot keep such a significant process at a standstill\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cItaly is utterly convinced that Serbia\u2019s European integration must make progress, with the opening of negotiating chapters by the end of 2015\u201d. This was Minister Paolo Gentiloni\u2019s comment at the press conference in Belgrade with his Serbian counterpart, Ivica Dacic. \u201cWe cannot keep such a significant process for the EU at a standstill. Serbia has made commitments and is keeping to them, as the meeting in February between Belgrade and Pristina shows\u201d, added Gentiloni.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian foreign minister, Dacic, thanked Italy for its strong and constant support for his country\u2019s European integration process. He expressed his satisfaction with \u201cthe high level of Italian-Serbian dialogue at the very highest levels\u201d, and hoped to see economic and commercial links grow even stronger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mattarella to visit Belgrade on 25 May<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minister Gentiloni announced that the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, will visit Belgrade on 25 May 2015. \u201cIn about 10 days\u201d, he added, \u201cthe date of the 4th Italy-Serbia inter-governmental summit, which will also be held in Belgrade, will be decided\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Talks with President Tomislav Nikoli\u0107 and Premier Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Foreign minister Gentiloni also met President Tomislav Nikoli\u0107 and the Premier, Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107. They underscored the excellent state of Italian-Serbian relations and expressed the hope that Serbia would see new Italian investment, especially in the agricultural and food sectors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cItaly is utterly convinced that Serbia\u2019s European integration must make progress, with the opening of negotiating chapters by the end of 2015\u201d. This was Minister Paolo Gentiloni\u2019s comment at the press conference in Belgrade with his Serbian counterpart, Ivica Dacic. \u201cWe cannot keep such a significant process for the EU at a standstill. Serbia has [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,9,76,42],"class_list":["post-56126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diplomazia-economica","tag-europa","tag-ministri-precedenti","tag-unione-europea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56126","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=56126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}