Rome was ready to take exceptional measures, including ignoring EU sanctions.  Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu said Rome was ready to take exceptional measures, including ignoring EU sanctions, to force the move through at EU level. The EU move comes amid a rapid loosening of sanctions and a thaw in relations since last year. The rapprochement then gathered steam with Libya's surprise decision in December to renounce and dismantle its weapons of mass destruction under US, British and international supervision. .