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Italy's foreign minister Antonio Tajani has deplored and attack on Euro-MP Alessandra Mussolini in a Strasbourg street in which she said she was struck on the back and shoulders with a crutch and insulted by an Italian-speaking man late on Monday.
The European Union must calibrate the entry to the bloc of the western Balkans, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, while enacting the reforms needed to play and a more active and decisive role on the international stage, according to Italy.
The European Union "does well" to maintain an underwavering commitment to helping candidate country Ukraine defend itself against Russia's unconscionable aggression", Italy stated on Monday.
A truce in the "dramatic"143-day-old Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and freedom of navigation in the key Red Sea trade route are vital, Italy's president Sergio Mattarella and his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides agreed on Monday.
On top of its unwavering military and political backing for Ukraine, Italy will keep helping the war-ravaged country rebuild through material aid and know-how, foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Monday.
Peace is the lodestar of Italy's foreign policy and is its objective in Ukraine, the Middle East and the key Red Sea trade route, according to foreign minister Antonio Tajani.
Italy's government "firmly believes" in the Palestinian Authority and hopes it will be Israel's "real future interlocutor" talks on a two-state solution to the longstanding conflict between the Jewish State and the Palestinians.
Italy's premier Giorgia Meloni will meet United States president Joe Biden for talks at the White House in Washington DC next Friday, spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said on a statement.
While Israel's security must be unfailingly guaranteed so that attacks like Hamas' deadly 7 October cross-border rampage won't be possible in future, the Jewish state cannot only use military might to defend itself, according to Italy.
The phenomenon of migration to Italy can only be solved at European level and not by "do-gooding or barbed wire," foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Friday.
Italy's overseas aid agency has okayed a 5 million euro contribution for the Global Partnership for Education fund as part of a 25 million euro pledge for the period- 2021-2025, AICS wrote Friday on X (formerly Twitter).
Italy's foreign minister Antonio Tajani has tweeted "full solidarity" with rightwing premier Giorgia Meloni after participants at far-left rally in Rome scrawled insults and threats against her and burned an effigy.
Ambassador to Pakistan, Marilina Armellis, is on a visit to the country's second largest city, Lahore, capital of Punjab province, in a sign of Italy's strong interest in reinforcing and deepening already "excellent" bilateral relations.
Hostilities between Israel and Iran-backed group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and the disputed Blue Line border with the Jewish State were the focus of Italys' ambassador Nicoletta Bombardiere and foreign minister Abdallah Bou Habib's talks in Beirut on Friday.
A bilateral security cooperation agreement to inked by Italy and Ukraine sends a "clear message" that Italy upholds international law," foreign minister Antonio Tajani told lawmakers in Rome on Thursday.
A security cooperation set to be signed between Italy and Ukraine and the death last Friday of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have steeled Italy's resolve to stand alongside Kiev in its two-year-old war, according to foreign minister Antonio Tajani.
Envoy Luca Attanasio and Vittorio Iacovacci who were killed in a roadside ambush in the Democratic Republic of the Congo"honoured" Italy, foreign minister Antonio Tajani tweeted on the third anniversary of their deaths.
Envoy Luca A ttanasio and Vittorio Iacovacci who were killed in a roadside ambush in the Democratic Republic of the Congo"honoured" Italy, foreign minister Antonio Tajani tweeted on the third anniversary of their deaths.
Russia's government has lashed out at Italy and other western countries' "pointless", "unacceptable" and "politically biased " accusations blaming the Kremlin for the Artic prison death last week of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Russia's envoy Alexey Paramonov was called to the foreign ministry on Wednesday and asked for "full clarity" over the circumstances of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death at an Artic prison last week, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
