The E.U. cannot give up on common solidarity. The idea that every country does its own thing, and history and geography decides whose turn it is - whether Greece or Italy or Spain or, who knows, even Poland if there's a crisis in north-eastern Europe - that just can't be. There has to be a common policy.

It is very important to have good relations with the United States.

Europe - with hundreds of millions of people - can accept hundreds of thousands of migrants.

I want to say very clearly that the government... is ready to intervene in order to guarantee the stability of banks and the savings of our citizens.

I am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian President Rouhani and the government have committed themselves to a process. I don't think this process is about changing the principles of the Islamic republic, but it is about accepting a certain path of opening in the political and economic fields.

Italy has no colonial past in Iran.