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...forces in the Ivory Coast, Kosovo, Bosnia, Chad, Congo and Lebanon; there's only so much we can do." Unless NATO members "push this through to a successful end, and all together," says this official, "we may find ourselves back at the drawing board before long." Gianni Vernetti, an Italian Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, praises ISAF as "efficient multilateralism. We have a strong U.N. mandate, and, for us, Afghanistan is a long-term commitment," he says. Prime Minister Romano Prodi's center-left government struggled to keep its majority intact during parliamentary votes in July over whether to reaffirm...
...Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema is the epitome of the "Old Europe" once mocked by U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. But Italy's commitment last week to provide 3,000 troops became the key to forging a strong European-led U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon. France initially offered just 200 troops, in addition to those it already has in Lebanon, before upping its pledge to 2,000. D'Alema, 57, spoke with TIME's Jeff Israely about democracy in Lebanon, Hizballah's future, and a certain "indispensable nation...
...that they aren't. But on the eve of a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Brussels, it was clearly no longer tenable for France, a key architect of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, to be seen as fearing to tread where others were ready to - particularly the Italians, 3,000 of whom have been promised to UNIFIL. If the guarantees were good enough for Rome-often derided in French military circles as providing "Club Med" troops-why wouldn't they be for Paris? After all, France is on the Security Council, helped write 1701, and considers Lebanon...
...surprises of her own. Female Japanese sommeliers aren't thick on the ground in Italy; yet the biggest break from tradition was her determination to steer us away from pricey bottles to cheaper choices, all delicious. This didn't stop us from racking up three of the great Italian classics, Sassicaia, Ornellaia and Tignanello - after we joined forces with G. We'd met before but it took me awhile to notice him at the next table, as the cuisine commanded our full attention. General manager Romani describes it as "typical trattoria dishes cooked with a French accent." That accent...
...Still, it is evident that Europe needs a better strategy than relying on the good will of sunbathers. Italian officials responded to the deaths off Lampedusa by calling on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to live up to agreements to tighten patrols along his country's coastline. Many believe Gaddafi cynically uses the threat of "opening the spigot" on the droves of sub-Saharan Africans gathering on Libyan shorelines in order to gain concessions on outstanding diplomatic questions, including Italian reparations for past colonial injustices. Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo P?rez Rubalcaba is traveling today to Senegal and Mauritania to meet with...