The MERCOSUR Challenge. Italy-Latin America Business Forum: Tajani in Prato to Explore the Opportunities of the Agreement with the EU

Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani concluded yesterday in Tuscany the proceedings of the Italy-Latin America Business Forum, organized in Prato jointly by the Foreign Ministry and IILA, with the support of the Italian Trade Agency (ITA). The event was attended by over 160 representatives of the Italian private sector and Latin American companies, as well as […]

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Tajani in Prato for the Italy-Latin America Business Forum. Opportunities from the EU-MERCOSUR Agreement

Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani will speak today at the Teatro Metastasio in Prato at the Italy-Latin America Business Forum, jointly organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) and IILA with the support of the Italian Trade Agency (ITA). The initiative brings together institutions and companies to explore the opportunities arising from […]

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The journey to the 2026 National Export Conference begins in Turin. Company registration is required by April 27.

On April 29, the event “Objective Export: Companies and Territories of Northern Italy” will be held at the OGR Turin. This event is the first in a series of meetings aimed at strengthening dialogue with the national manufacturing sector and promoting business internationalization, leading up to the 2026 National Export Conference, scheduled for Milan next […]

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Phone call between Minister Tajani and Secretary of State Rubio on Lebanon, Iran, Venezuela and Cuba

The Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani had a long phone call this evening with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, focusing on the main international dossiers, with particular attention to the Middle East. Significant time was devoted to negotiations between Israel and Lebanon and to the Iranian crisis. Tajani expressed appreciation for the United States’ […]

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Liberation Day: Tajani on 25 April at the Fosse Ardeatine and in Ferentino to honour the fallen and the victims of Nazi-Fascism

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, will be at the Fosse Ardeatine tomorrow, 25 April at 10:30 a.m., representing the Government on the occasion of the 81st anniversary of Liberation Day. At the Fosse Ardeatine Mausoleum, the Minister will lay a laurel wreath at the plaque at the entrance to the […]

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Berlin, the first event of the Sinopoliana itinerant festival

On Monday 20 April, the concert “Leaves untouched by the wind” took place at the prestigious Meistersaal am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Berlin. The Berlin concert marked the inaugural event of Sinopoliana, a series of commemorative celebrations dedicated to Giuseppe Sinopoli on the 25th anniversary of his […]

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Undersecretary Tripodi attends opening session of the Aqaba Process focused on the Balkans

The Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Maria Tripodi, attended yesterday evening — on behalf of Minister Tajani — the opening session of the Aqaba Process ministerial meeting in Athens. The discussions focused on countering terrorism and organised crime in the Balkans. Tripodi reaffirmed the strong support of the Italian Government for the initiative, describing […]

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Montevideo, Presentation of Andrea Bajani’s novel “The Anniversary”

On 22 April, the presentation of the novel The Anniversary by Andrea Bajani, winner of the 2025 Strega Prize, took place at the Feltrinelli bookshop in Montevideo — the first overseas branch of the historic Italian chain — with the support of the local Italian Cultural Institute. The event, moderated by journalist María José Borges, […]

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Ahmed Shihab-Eldin acquitted in Kuwait

The Italian Foreign Ministry notes the acquittal of Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, a United States journalist and lecturer at the University of Bari. The Embassy of Italy in Kuwait closely followed the case from the time of his arrest, maintaining close contact with the local authorities and with the Embassy of the United States, the journalist’s country […]

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Italian Research Day in the World in the Principality of Monaco

Principality of Monaco – On the occasion of the Ninth Italian Research Day in the World, the Embassy of Italy in the Principality of Monaco organised, on 21 April, a conference at the prestigious Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, devoted to the International Commission for the Scientific Exploration of the Mediterranean Sea (CIESM), focusing on scientific […]

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Prague hosts two days of events dedicated to the city of Bologna

The Italian Cultural Institute of Prague, in collaboration with the Bologna Welcome Foundation, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and the Guglielmo Marconi Foundation, organised on 16 and 17 April a two-day programme of events dedicated to the city of Bologna, with the aim of presenting the capital of the Emilia-Romagna region to the Czech public […]

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Italian Research Day in the World celebrated in Helsinki in the name of Giuseppe Acerbi

The figure of Giuseppe Acerbi (1773–1846), a native of Mantua—Enlightenment intellectual, geographer, explorer, diplomat and composer, and the first Italian to reach the North Cape overland in 1799—was at the centre of last evening’s concert-lecture “Echoes Beyond Borders”, promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute in the framework of the Italian Research Day in the World […]

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