Italian EU Council Presidency 2014

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Italian EU Presidency 2014 logo
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country ItalyItaly Italy
Term of office July 1, 2014 - December 31, 2014
Chair Federica Mogherini
Web presence http://italia2014.eu/
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ItalyItaly Italy , Latvia , LuxembourgLatviaLatvia LuxembourgLuxembourg 
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The Italian Presidency described the chairmanship of Italy in the Council of Ministers of the EU for the second half of 2014. For Italy began the sixth Trio Presidency with Latvia and Luxembourg .

It was the twelfth Italian Presidency (after 1959, 1962, 1965, 1968, 1971, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1996 and 2003). It marked the end of the second and final term of office of the first President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, and the election of a new Commission .

Priorities of the Italian EU Presidency

The priorities of the Italian presidency are (as of July 12, 2013)

  • Strengthening the Political Union
  • Development of federalism
  • Strengthening the EU budget
  • Enlargement of the EU

Working papers (work programs) have been published on other focal points. These concern energy policy, transport and information technology.

The European Parliament discussed the priorities of the Italian Council Presidency on July 2, 2014 with the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in plenary . The planned trade agreement between the EU and the USA ( TTIP ) was criticized considerably.

Program of the Council for the Trio Presidency Italy-Latvia-Luxembourg

According to the Council's eighteen-month program (July 1, 2014 to December 31, 2015) of the Trio Presidencies of Italy, Latvia and Luxembourg , the main objective of the next 18 months "is to completely overcome the economic and financial crisis and to grow the Union to boost the Union's capacity to create more jobs and exploit digital opportunities, to protect fundamental rights and to play fully its role in a rapidly changing world . "

This 18-month program for the future work of the Council was drawn up by the Italian, Latvian and Luxembourg Presidencies together with the President of the Foreign Affairs Council and " in close cooperation with the Commission and the President of the European Council ".

The first part of the eighteen month program of the Council contains the strategic framework for the program itself, the second part and much more extensive part, the operational program with the issues that are to be dealt with during the eighteen month period.

The logo of the Italian EU Presidency
The logo of the European Council , the Council of the European Union , the Eurogroup and the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union , which has been new since July 1, 2014 .

The logo of the Italian EU Council Presidency was created in the context of a campaign “La mia Europa è…” (“My Europe is…”) launched by the Ministry of Education, University and Research, which ended on May 20, 2014, from designs by more than 600 Italian schools selected. The draft of the Liceo Artistico Design e Tecnico Grafico ISIS-IPSIA "Giuseppe Meroni" from Lissone , Monza , was chosen from all the entries for the logo of the 2014 EU Council Presidency.

The central element of the logo shows a swallow in the colors of Europe (and also Italy). The swallow is an association of the creators of the logo with European citizenship , since European citizenship also stands for travel, hope and freedom. This combination is also the perfect expression for integration , emotions and expectations, three fundamental aspects that are the basis of a common (European) future.

The swallow's upturned beak represents the will to achieve the best. The wings symbolize direction and protection, the tail, which differs significantly from other birds in the swallow , is supposed to represent the diversity, which is also reflected in the motto of the European Union "United in diversity". In general, the swallow is known for the long journeys it undertakes, and thus - what an animal is capable of - when applied to the European Union, it creates a perfect picture to represent the ambitious goals of the European dream on its long journey.

The left side of the logo forms the new logo of the Council of the European Union , which has been in use since July 1, 2014 .

The logo is displayed and used in Italian , English and French . Although there is a relatively large German-speaking minority in Italy (especially in South Tyrol , a closed language area with more than 300,000 people) and around 82 million people speak German in the European Union itself, neither the logo nor the website of the Italian EU Council Presidency is currently used published in German .

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Italy's commitment to Europe - 2014 Presidency: political union and federalism
  2. ↑ The Council's eighteen-month program, p. 8.
  3. ↑ Council's eighteen-month program, p. 9.
  4. ↑ The Council of the European Union has moved into a new office building. The logo is an abstract representation of this office building (similar to the logo of the European Commission and the European Parliament ). The previous symbol, which is reminiscent of an eye and has been in use since 1996, will be replaced.
  5. ↑ This corresponds to about 18% of the EU citizens residing on the territory of the EU
  6. ↑ Other examples: During the French EU Council Presidency in 2008, the website was displayed in German, English, French, Spanish and Italian. During the Spanish EU Council Presidency , the website was also offered in the country's regional languages, Basque , Galician and Catalan . On the occasion of the Greek EU Council Presidency in the first half of 2014, the official website was published in Greek, German, English and French.
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