EU Officials Unnerved by the Strength of Italy s Radical Right
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03 Jun 2021, 20:05 GMT+10
ROME - Britain s Brexit advocates drool at the idea of another European Union member opting to quit the bloc. And they hedge their bets whether it will be France, Italy or one of the so-called awkward squad of Central European countries so often at loggerheads with Brussels.
At first glance the prospect of another EU member quitting the bloc - of a Frexit or Italexit -strikes seasoned political observers as unlikely. But Brexiters aren t the only ones who see a likely nasty clash emerging on the horizon between Brussels and Rome.
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2021-02-24 23:05:16 GMT2021-02-25 07:05:16(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
ROME, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) When Luca Attanasio, Italy s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, was killed earlier this week while working in-country, the tragedy thrust an important foreign policy issue onto the table for a new Italian government struggling to focus on confronting the coronavirus pandemic and sparking economic growth.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Luigi Di Maio went to the airport in Rome to receive the caskets holding the remains of Attanasio and Carabinieri Officer Vittorio Iacocacci, killed in the same attack (a third person, the Congolese driver of the car Attanasio and Iacocacci were in, also died in the attack). Statements of sympathy came from Italian leaders and from their counterparts abroad. Flags were hung at half-mast, and it was the top news story in Italy for two days. Di Maio called for investigations into the circumstances surrounding the attack.
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