Organisational problems quickly emerged in December when President Emmanuel Macron hosted his G5 counterparts together with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni of Italy as well as United States EU and UN representatives at summit talks at La Celle Saint-Cloud on the outskirts of Paris...
A host of unlikely guests seems to be finding a reason to be in Accra from Queen Margrethe of Denmark (who made her first trip to West Africa in November) to Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni of Italy and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (en route from the Africa-EU Summit in Abidjan in neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire) to Presidents Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Germany's Frank Walter Steinmeyer in December...
Vol 58 No 21 |
- LIBYA
- ITALY
Forced to focus on its southern flank by Libya's collapse and the Mediterranean migrant crisis Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni's government is getting ever more involved in African politics and business...
Two Italian naval vessels sailed to Libya on 2 August a few hours after the parliament in Rome approved a deal struck between Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni and his Libyan counterpart Faiez el Serraj in Tripoli for a joint policing effort in the Mediterranean...
Italy's rolePresenting the Rome government's annual intelligence report on 27 February Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said Italian intelligence services were doing a 'great job' helping to combat people traffickers and Da'ish...