On 12 June 2020 the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, participated in the Joint Committee for Development Cooperation.
Read moreThe OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) regularly reviews the development cooperation efforts of individual DAC member countries. The policies and programmes of each member country are critically reviewed about every five to six years. Five member countries are reviewed annually. The OECD Directorate for Development Cooperation provides analytical support, develops and maintains, in close consultation […]
Read moreThe Embassy of Italy in Pristina, the AICS Office and the Italian military contingent of the NATO-KFOR mission organised yesterday a ceremony to enhance the Italian initiatives to assist Kosovo in recovering from Coronavirus emergency. The ceremony was attended by the Italian Ambassador to Kosovo, Nicola Orlando, the Commander of the Italian Military Contingent in […]
Read moreA Memorandum of Understanding between FAO and the Italian Red Cross was signed today, at a virtual signing ceremony, for the implementation of the preventive measures of the UN system in Italy, during phase 2 of the Covid-19 emergency. The CRI will provide the UN system in Italy with technical assistance to strengthen the necessary […]
Read moreWe are still in the middle of a medical emergency. Phase 2 has just begun. Concretely, beyond the rhetoric linked to the confinement of Italians and the lack of protection of personal freedom, what is the Italian response to the COVID 19 pandemic? International cooperation is currently engaged in providing a health response to the […]
Read moreThe Deputy Minister Emanuela Del Re held a telephone conversation with the UK Secretary of State for International Development Anne-Marie Belinda Trevelyan, to exchange views on Italy’s and the United Kingdom’s contribution to the global response effort to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ms. Del Re and Ms. Trevelyan exchanged information on the two countries’ respective re-orientation […]
Read moreTo guarantee the continuity of as many projects as possible, but also greater flexibility, we are focusing particularly on the health sector and ‘wash’ and avoiding ‘return contagion’. The commitment of the Vice Minister, Emanuela Del Re, is to strengthen the Italian Cooperation intervention globally at the time of the Covid-19 pandemic. In an interview […]
Read moreOn 3rd April, the Director General of Development Cooperation, Ambassador Giorgio Marrapodi, and the extraordinary Commissioner of the Council for Agricultural Research (CREA), Gian Luca Calvi, signed (digitally) a memorandum of understanding aimed at strengthening the cooperation between the DGDC and the National Public Research and Experimentation Agency, also in view of the definition of […]
Read moreThe activity in the field of Italian development cooperation in Africa continues. Despite the slow but steady spread of Covid-19, the work of the Italian collaborators continues to support, through old and new projects, the lives of many populations already victims of a – at the very least – difficult situation. We talked about it […]
Read moreVice 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 […]
Read moreSince 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 moreWhat has been reconstructed in the article that appeared this morning in “Libero” entitled “When Do-goodism Rhymes with Masochism. Italy gives millions to Tunisia, Somalia and Bolivia to fight the epidemic” is not reflected in the facts. The Foreign Ministry has already made clear that it is false, Italy hasn’t donated 50 million euros to […]
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