Meeting with Italian Ministry of European Affairs Enzo Moavero Milanesi

The United Kingdom is ready to launch a comprehensive reform of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) at a high level conference on the future of the European Court of Human Rights, to be held in Brighton on 18-20 April 2012. Emma Bonino, Vice President of the Italian Senate, and Staffan De Mistura, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, discussed this issue during a workshop at the IAI on April 12.

During a seminar at the IAI on April 27, Tornike Gordadze, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Georgia discussed the current scenarios of Georgia’s foreign policy in the framework of a more general analysis of the European Union’s 'Eastern partnership'.

Conference Call to Europe, in the framework of the project , Strengthening the Africa-EU partnership on peace and security: how to engage African sub-regional organisations and civil society in cooperation  with Feps

The successful endorsement of an anti-spread shield at the most recent European Council summit last week has been judged as a triumph for Italian PM, Mario Monti, not only by Italian political commentators but by the international press as well. At a subsequent German-Italian summit on the 4th July, Monti was able to build on this victory by reestablishing a community of interests with Chancellor Angela Merkel, ensuring that Rome and Berlin will continue to work together on the road to integration, growth and economic discipline.

Seminar on "How to make out of its neighbourhood an opportunity for the EU itself?", with Notre Europe, in the framework of the project/network Think Global - Act European IV: Thinking Strategically about the EU's External Action