Pressure on Italy to scrap planned arms deal with Egypt
Virginia Pietromarchi - Fonte: © Al Jazeera 17 June 2020 Activists decry move to sell two frigates to Egypt even as 2016 murder of Italian student near Cairo remains unresolved. The Italian government is facing increasing calls to scrap a major arms deal with Egypt after reports emerged it had agreed to sell two naval frigates to the North African country. Citing sources familiar to the matter, news outlets in Italy reported last week that the government had approved the sale of the FREMM vessels – built by Fincantieri and originally intended for the Italian navy – for an estimated...