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Brussels – The Italian government has decided to nominate Maurizio Martina<\/strong>, former secretary of the Democratic Party and Minister of Agriculture between 2014 and 2018, for the role of Director-General of the FAO<\/strong>, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation. Today (23 February), Italy will ask other  European Union member states  to support its candidacy. <\/p>\n

Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani<\/strong> and Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida<\/strong> announced this in a joint press conference in Brussels, where today’s meeting of the EU Agricultural and Fisheries Council <\/a>is being held. “The government supported Martina’s candidacy, despite his different political background, but we felt that Italy deserved to have that role<\/strong> in a high-level international organisation based in Rome,” said Lollobrigida, recalling that the government had already supported the former Democratic Party leader as deputy director of the FAO, a role he has held since 2021. <\/p>\n

“There will probably be other European candidates. We will call for a unified European position with regard to other candidates at the global level,” the minister added. The term of office of the current Director-General, Qu Dongyu of China, will end on 31 July 2027. The election will take place during the FAO Conference, by secret ballot, by the 194 member states of the Organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The former Democratic Party secretary has been Deputy Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations since 2021. Lollobrigida: “He has represented Italy well, and we support him despite having a different political history from ours.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":221858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25709],"tags":[26005,33123,30858,25967,33124],"class_list":["post-445746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agrifood-en","tag-antonio-tajani-en-2","tag-consiglio-agricoltura","tag-fao-en","tag-francesco-lollobrigida-en","tag-maurizio-martina"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445747,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445746\/revisions\/445747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}