Criticized for being too pro-Russian. Now you know why she's the new EU foreign policy honkette.
Posted on 08/30/2014 12:13:09 PM PDT by Olog-hai
European Union leaders on Saturday picked Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini, to become the 28-nation bloc’s top diplomat for the next five years.
The decision comes as the crisis at the EU’s eastern border pitting Ukraine against Russia poses one of the biggest foreign policy challenges for the bloc in decades. […]
Mogherini, a 41-year-old center-left politician, has been Italy’s foreign minister only since February, drawing criticism that she lacks experience. A first attempt to secure Mogherini’s nomination in June failed amid resistance from eastern European leaders. …
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Catherine Ashton who speaks Italian?
Wow - really has Vladimir Putin shaking in his boots. NOT!!!
Criticized for being too pro-Russian. Now you know why she's the new EU foreign policy honkette.
> Federica Mogherini..., a 41-year-old center-left politician, has been Italy’s foreign minister only since February, drawing criticism that she lacks experience. A first attempt to secure Mogherini’s nomination in June failed amid resistance from eastern European leaders.
Weird coincidence that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the big thing on the near-term agenda, eh?
left-wing Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/global/2014/aug/30/portrait-federica-mogherini-eu-foreign-policy-chief
> An active member of the Democrats of the Left (DS), a social democratic party containing many former Communists, she soon got noticed, and specialised in foreign affairs, working particularly on ties with the US Democrat party. In 2008, the year after the DS merged with others into the centre-left PD, she was elected as an MP for the first time. In February, aged 40, she became the youngest foreign minister in the history of the Italian republic.
IOW, like the reprehensible Catherine Ashton, her priority will be to attack Israel nonstop for the next five years.
Italy accused of blocking tougher sanctions on Russia
http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2014/07/14/19353.shtml
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