ItalyStayStrong: fundraising of the Italian Embassy in USA and Issnaf

The Embassy of Italy in Washington and the Italian Scientist and Scholars in North America Foundation (Issnaf) have launched the #ItalyStayStrong fundraising campaign through the GoFundMe crowdfunding platform. The money will be donated to three frontline medical and research centres fighting Coronavirus. The centres chosen are the Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases in […]

Read more

Telephone conversation between Minister Di Maio and the Ambassador of the United States of America to Rome, Lewis M. Eisenberg

On 31 March 2020 the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had a telephone conversation with the Ambassador of the United States of America to Rome, Lewis M. Eisenberg.

Read more

Minister Luigi Di Maio participates in the Question Time session in the Italian Chamber of Deputies

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, will answer questions on the initiatives undertaken to support the Civil Protection and the Extraordinary Commissioner for Covid-19 Emergency in the procurement of medical equipment on the international market (Cabras–5 Star Movement) and on the significant economic aid given to foreign countries in the […]

Read more

Ministry of Foreign Affairs: the Mediterranean, satisfaction with the new EU operation

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomes the decision taken today by the Council of the European Union to launch the new European operation in the Mediterranean, called EUNAVFOR MED IRINI. Operation Irini will replace Operation Sophia, which expires on 31 March. Its main task the implementation of the UN arms embargo on Libya, wherever they […]

Read more

Di Maio: “The EU has to let us spend everything we need to help Italians” (fanpage.it)

Francesco Piccinini, editor of Fanpage.it, has interviewed Italian Foreign Minister Luigi di Maio in order to take stock of COVID emergency in Italy, particularly of the situation of the compatriots who were abroad when the contagion started, and of countering measures to implement aiming at facing the economic crisis we are going through: “In the […]

Read more

Undersecretary Merlo: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs continues with the repatriation of the Italians

“The Italian government, with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the front line and in collaboration with the various airlines, continues to work to fly Italians stranded abroad amid a coronavirus emergency home”. This was declared by the Undersecretary with responsibility for Italians abroad, Ricardo Merlo. “For example, a flight of the Italian airline NeosAir, […]

Read more

Undersecretary Merlo: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs continues with the repatriation of the Italians

“The Italian government, with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the front line and in collaboration with the various airlines, continues to work to fly Italians stranded abroad amid a coronavirus emergency home”. This was declared by the Undersecretary with responsibility for Italians abroad, Ricardo Merlo. “For example, a flight of the Italian airline NeosAir, […]

Read more

Del Re: “Already 30 thousand Italians repatriate due to Coronavirus emergency.” (fanpage.it)

Since the beginning of the Coronavirus emergency, more than 30 thousand compatriots have already returned to Italy from more than 30 different countries. The repatriation operations continue, with flights that will bring many compatriots back to Italy from Asia, Latin America and the United States. The Vice Foreign Minister, Emanuela Del Re, in an interview […]

Read more

Telephone conversation between Minister Di Maio and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, Ekaterina Zaharieva

On 31 March 2020, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had a telephone conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, Ekaterina Zaharieva.

Read more

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, flags fly at half-mast

Flags fly at half-mast at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation: the Ministry joins the farewell for the victims of the coronavirus in Italy.  

Read more

Telephone conversation between Minister Di Maio and the Irish Minister of Foreign Affairs,Simon Coveney

On 31 March 2020 the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had a telephone conversation with the Irish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney.

Read more

Minister Di Maio by video-conference at the G20 on Trade

On 30 March 2020 the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, participated in the extraordinary G20 meeting on trade by video-conference.

Read more