On the day in which the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense Federica Mogherini and Roberta Pinotti asked the Parliament committees for the go-ahead for sending arms to the Kurds, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi lands in Baghdad, Iraq, for a quick but highly delicate due to the clashes in the country and for the eyes of the world focused on yet another conflict which, according to the Pope's cry of alarm, fuels "the third world war".
“Europe must be here these days, otherwise it is not Europe, because whoever thinks that the EU turns its back on the massacres, busy only thinking about the spread, either makes a mistake in forecasting or makes a mistake in the semester,” said Prime Minister Renzi.