Angelino Alfano

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Tuesday that Dacic decided to return to the country on Tuesday after meeting with Secretary for Relations with States of the Holy See Paul Gallagher and State Secretary of the Holy See Cardinal Pietro Parolin.

BELGRADE - A trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Serbia, Italy and Albania Ivica Dacic, Angelino Alfano and Ditmir Bushati, originally scheduled for January 9, will be held in Belgrade on February 27, the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Tuesday.

The trilateral meeting was postponed due to Alfano's illness.

First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic spoke on the margins of the OSCE Mediterranean Conference with Italian counterpart Angelino Alfano.

According to the Serbian government, they discussed "relations between the two countries."

The Italian government yesterday (13 August) welcomed Libya’s decision to bar foreign vessels from a stretch of water off its coast,a move that has prompted almost all international charities to halt migrant search and rescue operations in the area.

The Italian Parliament has given permission to launch a naval mission in Libya's territorial waters to provide technical support to the Libyan coastguard in the fight against human traffickers, reports Mediapool. 

The Czech Republic’s foreign minister has suggested that the European Union consider a military engagement in Libya to reduce the flow of migrants arriving by boat from there to Europe.

An Italian journalist who had been detained in Turkey while researching refugees near the Syrian border has been deported after two weeks in detention, diplomatic sources confirmed on April 24.

Gabriele Del Grande, 34, was deported from a repatriation center in the Aegean province of Muğla on the morning of April 24 after an investigation into him was completed, sources said.

Italy has established a special fund for helping African countries close their borders more successfully in an attempt to prevent migrants from boarding often lethal vessels and travelling to Europe, reported the Foreign Minister of Italy.

The prime minster designate of Italy has kept on several officials and lawmakers from the outgoing government of Matteo Renzi, including its ex-interior minister.

Paolo Gentiloni's government will focus on reforming Italy's electoral laws and fortifying its banking sector.

A small group of Eritreans left Italy for Sweden on Oct. 9, the first contingent of asylum seekers to be relocated under a much-contested European Union scheme to ease the burden of the migration crisis on frontline countries.