Press Accreditation Note
France-Italy Business Forum – Le Cannet, June 25, 2026
On the occasion of the 36th Italy-France-Italy Intergovernmental Summit next Thursday, June 25, in Antibes, the France-Italy Business Forum will be held at La Palestre in Le Cannet. The Forum’s works will take place from 8:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. for participating companies, while press access will be permitted from 12:45 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The event will bring together over 200 institutional representatives, business leaders, and economic decision-makers from the two countries with the aim of strengthening economic, industrial, and strategic cooperation in the service of European competitiveness and sovereignty.
Participants include Foreign Ministers Antonio Tajani and Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy Adolfo Urso, French Minister of Industry and Energy Roland Lescure, Minister of Universities and Research Anna Maria Bernini and her French counterpart Philippe Baptiste, as well as French Minister of Transport Philippe Tabarot and Italian Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Edoardo Rixi.
The Forum will feature roundtable discussions on key sectors of common interest -including energy, transport, mobility, semiconductors, and cross-investment – as well as B2B meetings and the signing of cooperation agreements between major French and Italian economic players.
Companies interested in participating may register through the Forum’s official website: Forum Economico Francia-Italia – Registrazione.
The Business Forum programme is available on the Forum’s official website, while some in-depth reports on Italian-French economic, trade, and industrial relations, edited by the Embassy of Italy in France, can be downloaded in the Publications section.
Press Accreditation
Journalists interested in covering the Forum shall contact the Business France Press Office to obtain accreditation:
Siham Morchid
* Tel. +33 1 40 73 30 74 / +33 6 59 37 56 87
* E-mail: siham.morchid@businessfrance.fr
Séverine de Carvalho
* Tel. +33 1 40 74 73 88 / +33 6 82 23 69 12
* E-mail: severine.decarvalho@businessfrance.fr
Please keep the Foreign Ministry’s Communication Unit informed of your accreditation request by copying it to accreditamentostampa@esteri.it.
The provision of the personal data listed above constitutes consent for its use pursuant to Italian Legislative Decree 30 June 2003, n. 196, and the GDPR (EU Regulation 2016/679) by the Communication Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, as data controller, strictly for professional purposes and/or for the organisation of the event in question.
