Italy's foreign undersecretary Ivan Scalfarotto will begin a visit to San Marino Tuesday to further strengthen bilateral ties in a range of areas including energy, radio, television and culture, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday.
Serbia is a key country for Italy, foreign undersecretary Ivan Scalfarotto tweeted on Monday ahead of a visit to the Balkan country and candidate for European Union membership.
The thousands of migrants headed for southern Europe from Africa, the Middle East and Asia are the responsibility of the entire bloc, Italy's foreign under-secretary and Germany's deputy parliament speaker Thomas Oppermann agreed on Thursday.
Italy and Spain share a "special relationship" and hold similar views on international trade, foreign undersecretary Ivan Scalfarotto said on Tuesday, according to a foreign ministry statement.
The attempted murder of Russian opposition politician Alexi Navalny with the nerve agent Novichok is "disturbing" and against European values, Italy's foreign undersecretary Ivan Scalfarotto said on Thursday.
Italy has renewed a call dialogue between the government, opposition and civil society activists in Belarus, which has seen over three weeks of mass protests since polls last month that officials said re-elected authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko to a sixth term of office.
Italy is concerned at the deadly crackdown in Belarus against pro-democracy protestors following Sunday's disputed re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko concerns Italy, foreign undersecretary Ivan Scalfarotto said in a statement on Thursday.
Foreign undersecretary Ivan Scalfarotto held talks in Bern with Swiss secretary of state for economic affairs and trade Marie Gabrielle Ineichen Fleisch and secretary of state and director for European Affairs Roberto Balzaretti on Wednesday to mull bilateral ties and how to strengthen these, to the Italian foreign ministry said in a statement.
“Siamo in campo. La mia candidatura è stata decisa dalle primarie. La Puglia non può tornare indietro. Non può accadere perché troppe cose sono accadute: quando io e Nichi Vendola vincemmo al comune di Bari e alla Regione, io ero procuratore antimafia e lui in commissione parlamentare. Questa era una terra infelice, con governanti afoni davanti ai fenomeni criminali. Io e Vendola non abbiamo avuto paura di pronunciare quelle parole. Abbiamo mandato via la criminalità dalla pubblica amministrazion...
Bordo: "L'unica candidatura competitiva è quella di Michele Emiliano"
