In addition to buying, Chinese companies have also developed partnerships with some European firms: Geely-Volvo in Sweden, Zoomlion-Cifa in Italy, Sany-Putzmeister in Germany and DongfangPSA Peugeot-Citroën in France.
While France and Germany ranked third and fourth in global arms exports, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands ranked sixth, seventh, ninth, and tenth respectively.
EU member states, especially Germany, Italy, and Greece, requested the North African countries to tackle the migration problem more sufficiently, and praised Egypt’s efforts in this regard.
In mid-January, Egypt, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Palestine and the Greek Cypriot-controlled “Republic of Cyprus” agreed to establish the East Med Gas Forum (EMGF), which not only seeks to boost domestic consumption of shared resources, but also aims to deliver gas to Europe via a 2,000-kilometer undersea pipeline.
While ministers of Egypt, Israel, the Greek Cypriot administration of South Cyprus, Palestine, Jordan, and Italy attended the meeting, representatives of five Eastern Mediterranean countries, Turkey, Libya, Syria, Lebanon and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus were not invited.
The Eurozone crisis, the ongoing fiscal crises in Italy and Greece and the matter of refugees have lead people to think that Europe as a whole is also in crisis.
Czech Republic is in the lead of Eurosceptic nations among EU member states with a mere 39% who regard EU membership positively for their country followed by Italy at 42%, Croatia at 44%, Greece, which is still battling a series of unabating economic difficulties, at 45%, UK which has already voted out at 48%, Austria at 48% and Romania at 49%.
Italy’s far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini, who also serves as Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister, recently announced that they would shut down airports to planes carrying migrants from Germany.
However, Turkey lags far behind Italy (54), France (53), or China (44) in the number of national sites on the list; its huge potential as a cultural powerhouse has hardly been fulfilled.
, Germany, France, and Italy have behaved as if a military coup never took place in Egypt, as if thousands of civilians were not taken into prison for years and as if opposition activists have not suddenly disappeared.
withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, which he made during the summit in Italy last year, have led some to argue that the G7 is effectively becoming a G6.
Akturk separates them into 6 pairs and 3 clusters; Austria, France, Spain and Italy the first, Germany, Norway, Denmark and Switzerland the second, Norway, the Netherlands, the U.