Farnesina: no contact with Ieffi ever, we’ll send information to the Public Prosecutor’s Office

With reference to the ongoing investigation against the entrepreneur Antonello Ieffi, arrested on charges of having committed a fraud in a Consip tender for the supply of surgical masks, it should be noted that there has never been any contact of any kind, not even via email, between Mr Ieffi and Foreign Minister Luigi Di […]

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Telephone conversation between Minister Di Maio and the Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ayman Al-Safadi

On 9 April 2020, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had a telephone conversation with the Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ayman Al-Safadi.

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Telephone conversation between Minister Di Maio and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo Glauk Konjufca

On 8 April 2020, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had a telephone conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, Glauk Konjufca.

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Del Re: Covid-19, alliance for Vaccine and Immunisation

Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re attended the informal meeting of the Foreign Affairs – Development Council of the European Union, chaired by the High Representative for Foreign Policy, Mr Borrell.  The Vice Minister expressed the Italian support to the Commission’s “European Team Package”, for a cohesive and visible European support to the fight against Covid-19 […]

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Coronavirus, Del Re to the EU: Global Alliance for Vaccine and Universal Immunisation

Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re attended the informal meeting of the Foreign Affairs – Development Council of the European Union, chaired by the High Representative for Foreign Policy, Mr Borrell.  The Vice Minister expressed the Italian support to the Commission’s “European Team Package”, for a cohesive and visible European support to the fight against Covid-19 […]

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Export Agreement: sectoral tables with trade associations and companies kicked off

Read Minister Di Maio’ letter to trade associations

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Memoranda of Understanding for the export of beef meat and rice to China

Two Memoranda of Understanding were signed today in Beijing, opening the Chinese market to the export of Italian beef meat and rice. It represented an important step towards overcoming the barriers to the export of Italian agro-food products to China. The Ministry of Agriculture and Health, in close collaboration with the Ministries of Agriculture and […]

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Di Maio: “This is not 2008, Italy will not become the shopping outlet of foreign companies” (Il Sole 24 Ore)

“Italy will not become the shopping outlet of other countries, as in 2008”. At the end of a meeting with the technical-scientific committee, the Prime Minister and Cabinet colleagues, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, assured the business daily Il Sole 24 Ore that in the face of the crisis triggered by the coronavirus, “national strategic […]

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Telephone conversation between Minister Di Maio and the Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed El-Taher Hammuda Siala

On 7 April 2020, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had a telephone conversation with the Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Ahmad Al-Sabah.

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The Farnesina celebrates World Health Day

The tribute to nurses and medical staff.  

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs remembers Raphael 500 years after his death

On 6 April 1520 Raffaello Sanzio, one of the geniuses of the Renaissance, died in Rome. On occasion five hundredth anniversary of his death, while waiting for the places of culture to reopen and for live works of art to be seen again, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Network of […]

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Telephone conversation between Minister Di Maio and the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ine Eriksen Søreide

On 5 April 2020, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had a telephone conversation with the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ine Eriksen Søreide.

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