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Asia e Oceania

Economic Diplomacy
30 December 2025
New Zealand, New Investment Rules to Stimulate Growth

It will be even easier for wealthy foreign investors to establish themselves and do business in New Zealand. The country has announced the abolition of the Entrepreneur Work Visa and the introduction of the new, more advantageous Business Investor Visa. The programme, open to applications from November 2025, offers two options: the first allows for […]

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Economic Diplomacy
30 December 2025
Japan, a new energy plan focusing on renewables, nuclear power, and hydrogen

Japan’s new Strategic Energy Plan – the seventh – reflects the urgent need to strengthen energy security through efficiency, source diversification, and decarbonization. For the first time, Japan has set the goal of maximizing the use of renewable energy as the primary source of electricity, aiming for an energy self-sufficiency rate of 30-40%, compared to […]

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Economic Diplomacy
30 December 2025
Asia, Reshaping Global Supply Chains

Once relegated to the role of a mere supplier of raw materials, Asia is now establishing itself on the global stage as a dynamic economic powerhouse, characterized by ample room for growth. Data confirms this: according to the International Monetary Fund, Asia-Pacific countries recorded GDP growth of 4.6% in 2024 – compared to 1.8% for […]

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Economic Diplomacy
30 December 2025
South Korea: Between AI and Energy, the Gwangju Hub is Looking to the Future

The Gwangju industrial district, thanks to its Special Economic Zone, is becoming South Korea’s new hub for artificial intelligence (AI), the automotive industry of the future, and green energy. Operations at the National AI Data Centre began in November 2023. High-Performance Computing (HPC) services for the development of large-scale AI models were later made fully […]

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Economic Diplomacy
30 December 2025
South Korea, the Power of Innovation Between Chaebols and K-Culture

South Korea is a stable democracy and an established industrial powerhouse. In just a few decades, it has turned from a developing country to the world’s tenth-largest economy (fourth in Asia after China, Japan, and India), with a per capita income reaching $36,289 in 2025. With over 50 million inhabitants, the country is a global […]

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Interviews
24 December 2025
Unlocking opportunities: India’s partnership with Italy will play a pivotal role in driving shared development goals (Business India)

In 2026, Italy plans to invest an additional €500 million in India. Also, India and Italy have set a target of achieving bilateral trade worth $20 billion by 2029. Accordingly, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the agency SIMEST, has launched a dedicated financing line to India to support Italian companies entering the local […]

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Cultural Diplomacy
23 December 2025
Tokyo: Tenor Marcello Nardis in concert

The final event of the annual “Concerti di Tokyo Kudan” series took place at the Auditorium of the Italian Institute of Culture of Tokyo, under the artistic direction of Maestro Gaetano D’Espinosa. The evening featured tenor Marcello Nardis, an artist with a long-standing international career, accompanied at the piano by Ayako Takada, a collaborator of […]

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Press Releases
17 December 2025
G7 Foreign Ministers Statement on the Jimmy Lai verdict in Hong Kong

We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union, condemn the prosecution of Jimmy Lai under the National Security Law (NSL) in Hong Kong that has led to his guilty verdict on December 15, 2025. We […]

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Speeches
11 December 2025
Tajani: Italy intends to grow trade with India by €6 bn (Hindustan Times)

New Delhi – Italy intends to grow trade with India to €20 billion by 2029 from the current level of about €14 billion, and Italian investments into the country were up by €500 million during the first half of 2025 alone, Italian deputy prime minister and foreign minister Antonio Tajani said ahead of a visit to New Delhi, […]

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Press Releases
11 December 2025
Tajani in Mumbai for the Italy–India Business Forum

Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani is in Mumbai today for the Italy–India Business Forum, the third edition in 2025 following those held in New Delhi (April) and Brescia (June). The Forum, co-chaired with India’s Minister of Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal, and organised with the support of the Italian Trade Agency (ITA), focuses on […]

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Press Releases
10 December 2025
Italian cooking inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Tajani: “Our cuisine is identity, tradition, growth and innovation”

The inscription of Italian cooking on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity was officially approved today in New Delhi. During his mission to India, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, attended the 20th Session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, marking the prestigious […]

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