{"id":395612,"date":"2019-02-08T22:23:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T21:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/france-recalls-its-ambassador-to-italy\/"},"modified":"2019-02-08T22:23:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T21:23:08","slug":"france-recalls-its-ambassador-to-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/france-recalls-its-ambassador-to-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"France recalls its ambassador to Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>France recalls its ambassador to Italy<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    8 February 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Yesterday, for the first time since World War II, the French Foreign Ministry announced the recall of its ambassador in Rome. An immediate pretext was Italian Vice Premier Luigi di Maio\u2019s February 5 meeting with a group of \u201cyellow vest\u201d protesters calling for French President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s ouster. The communiqu\u00e9 made clear, however, that far broader international conflicts are involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor several months,\u201d it wrote, \u201cFrance has been targeted with repeated accusations, unfounded attacks, and outrageous declarations that everyone knows and recalls. It is unprecedented since the end of the war. To have disagreements is one thing, exploiting them for electoral purposes is another. The latest interventions constitute a further and unacceptable provocation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While calling for \u201ca relationship of friendship and mutual respect\u201d between France and Italy, it added: \u201cAll these actions have created a grave situation that raises questions as to the intentions of the Italian government in its relations with France. In light of this unprecedented situation, the French government has decided to recall the French ambassador to Italy for consultations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paris\u2019s recall of its ambassador\u2014a move typically signaling the danger of a collapse of diplomatic relations, or war\u2014underscores the collapse of relations in the European Union (EU) flowing from the relentless incitement of nationalism and militarism by the European ruling class.<\/p>\n<p>Clashes between Paris and Rome have become ever more bitter, as they vied for influence in the EU and backed rival factions in the civil war in Libya that followed the 2011 NATO war. Two years ago, Macron nationalized France\u2019s naval shipyards to keep Italy\u2019s Fincantieri&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/02\/08\/pers-f08.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 France recalls its ambassador to Italy 8 February 2019 Yesterday, for the first time since World War II, the French Foreign Ministry announced the recall of its ambassador in Rome. An immediate pretext was Italian Vice Premier Luigi di Maio\u2019s February 5 meeting with a group of \u201cyellow vest\u201d protesters calling for French President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}