Too inexperienced and too soft on Russia.<br /><br />Just some of the criticisms that MEPs levelled at Federica Mogherini, the next EU foreign policy chief.<br /><br />Mogherini was in the European Parliament to discuss her government’s foreign policy.<br /><br />She said Rome is working with the European Commission on new sanctions for Russia. <br /><br />“I said the strategic partnership ( with Russia) is over, clearly is over. This was a choice of Moscow first of all, and the consequence of things on the ground,” added Mogherini.<br /><br />The outgoing Italian foreign minister, a member of the centre-left Democratic Party, failed to win over her conservative critics.<br /><br />Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, a Polish centre-right MEP, said: “On Russia and Ukraine, Miss Mogherini is changing rhetoric, I was not convinced.” <br /><br />But Ana Gomes, a centre-left Portuguese MEP, said she was “positively impressed” by Mogherini’s “detailed knowledge” of the different issues.<br /><br />Italy’s top diplomat replaces Britain’s Catherine Ashton on November 1st.
