Antonio Tajani

Ah dico negli anni '70, ma anche negli anni '80, non sto parlando cioè, eeeh.

Era un progressimo che se veniva Vannacci o veniva, eeeh, Tajani in città ti presentassi con i volantini, ti presentassi con gli striscioni, ti presentassi fischiando, eccetera, e faceva parte della dinamica e della dialettica sociale.

Cioè qui dobbiamo rimpiangere, siamo arrivati a rimpiangere Bettino Craxi, Giulio Andreotti, cioè il pentapartito, ma perché comunque era impensabile che venisse repressa con i decreti amministrativi, con le condanne, con sanzioni che colpiscono minorenni con 2500, 3000 euro tagliando le gambe e soprattutto, eh mettendo una profonda ipoteca in un mondo precario.

E tra l'altro, attenzione, il mondo degli anni '70, '80 era anche il mondo che se venivo arrestato in piazza, venivo picchiato eccetera, mica perdevo il posto di lavoro, eh soprattutto se ero...

And all of these places Russia tries to control.

And then he says, well, what do you think the effect of Russian interference is going to have on the Italian elections in 2027? And, uh, in court, including some, uh, statements by Italian foreign minister, Antonio Tajani.

And Zakharova started laughing actually.

And she goes, she goes, oh boy, you know, I tell you what, all of you accusers who for at least the last two decades have been claiming that Russia is interfering in your elections of your democratically elected party.

In recent months, we have strengthened our capabilities to prevent, monitor, and respond to threats, adopting all necessary countermeasures, including on the technical side.

Unquote, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said.

So nobody's claimed this attack.

The pattern's familiar.

Secretary of State Rubio discussed the Lebanon framework and the disarming of Hezbollah in a call with Jordan's King Abdullah on Friday.

In Rome, Italy's foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, called for a stronger European role in maritime security in Hormuz and the Red Sea, including a larger aspires mission in talks with European Union's foreign policy chief, Cayacalas.

And Iraq's transport ministry said Washington had permitted its national carrier to fly between Najaf and Iran starting in October, an exception to the American sanctions that had cut international traffic at Tehran's main airport by more than 40 percent.

One phrase ran through nearly every maritime bulletin this week, and it deserves a closer look.

In return, Spain has also introduced controls at its air and sea borders with Italy.

"This is not against Spain," the Italian Foreign Ministers, Antonio Tajani said, adding, "We have a duty to protect our borders." The starting point was the arrival of tens of thousands of migrants in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta at the end of July.

Italy said it was concerned about possible secondary movements towards the rest of Europe and brought back controls at its borders with Spain.

But from a legal point of view, EU countries can't simply reintroduce border controls whenever they want.

The next item of news is about Italian women politicians protesting in miniskirts.

A debate about women's clothing has caused controversy in Italian politics after Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani made comments linking the length of a woman's skirt with her behaviour and suitability as a wife and mother.

Tajani said he preferred women who were less flashy and wore longer skirts, suggesting they were less likely to cheat.

He later apologized, saying he had not intended to offend women.

What was the context in which he offered this pearl of wisdom?

So Antonio Tajani, who is the foreign minister and the deputy prime minister and the head of one of the three parties in the conservative coalition that governs Italy at the moment, was speaking at a political rally and it was a wide ranging discourse.

But at one point he talked about the sort of advice he would give his son as to the sort of girl or the sort of woman his son he thought should marry.

And as you said in your introduction, he suggested that women who wear short skirts are a bit flashy, bit unreliable, might go from one boyfriend to another, might dump you.

To a certain extent, though, are they pitching to a certain constituency within their own country by taking these kind of stances?

I think so.

I mean, I think there's an argument to be made that Tajani, the deputy prime minister who said, you know, go for women in long skirts, I think he might have been coming up with this as a means of, he might have been sort of portraying or pushing this very traditional concept of women in the family as a means of competing with this guy, the paratrooper turned politician Roberto Vanacci, who's doing really quite well, having come out of nowhere with a very conservative mindset.

He's talked, for instance, about an idea that he calls the Mediterranean patriarchy, which seems to be the idea that men should be men, women should be women, and strong men protect fragile women.

And obviously that has prompted a backlash.

So Antonio Tajani.

He's the foreign minister.

He says, while it might be nice to marry a glamorous girl, such a woman may have gone through a string of boyfriends, dumped them, walked out, and has a tendency to cheat.