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a whole continent.
If I think, for example, of those aspects concerning more my Ministry, I

can see that on the agriculture cooperation side, we have one of the fundamen-
tal “assets” which will help rebuild cooperation and reopen a form of new con-
sideration of the Mediterranean area. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr
Gentiloni, is right in putting these issues in connection with the migratory flow.

This applies to the objective “Fame zero 2030” (Zero Hunger challenge
launched by the UN Secretary General) identified as one the targets to achieve
within the international community. It also applies to the step ahead made in
Paris with COP 21. I believe Italy can have a leading role till the end and you
are fundamental part of this work: thanks to your expertise, you are a piece of
this leadership.

This is the reason why we built up an innovative organisation which sees
us protagonists of this transition stage, certainly not simple but crucial, in the
reorganisation of the jurisdiction of the Carabinieri Corps and State Forestry
Department. This is an “evolutionary process” too and it is challenging that
Italy is interpreting, also from this point of view, an area of innovation, putting
itself in the leading position of a European experimentation.

What fear can we have when we hold a strong expertise that can join all
our strengths and can face, in the new times in which we live, such important
issues making use of our skills? We made some progress on the legislative field:
the law against eco crimes, to which I wish to add all the work we are doing for
the revision of food farming crimes. This would allow us to take a stronger
frontline position in the fight against criminal organisations, and become aware
that in that area there are still some aspects that need to be understood.

When we discuss about “agromafia” (mafia extended to agriculture) I fear
we are not referring to a domestic issue only, these situations go beyond natio-
nal borders and I envisage, also from this point of view, a leading role of our
Country to express some form of “antibodies” necessary to renovate the
means of contrast. I believe that this work is an essential part in the agenda that
our Country is trying to increasingly implement in order to recognise and have
those elements of strength recognised in the responsibility that Italy holds
within the international community.

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