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Press Releases
10 February 2023
Earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Emergency funding from the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation

To address the consequences of the violent earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on 6 February, causing thousands of dead and injured, as well as the damage and destruction of infrastructures and buildings, the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, at the proposal of Minister Tajani and Deputy Minister Cirielli, has allocated two emergency grants worth […]

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Press Releases
10 February 2023
Meeting of the Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, with the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily

The Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, met today with the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, at the Farnesina. The Italian Deputy Prime Minister stressed the importance that Italy attaches to Libya’s sovereignty, stability and prosperity, which is one of the Italian government’s […]

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Press Releases
8 February 2023
JOINT PRESS RELEASE ITALY – UK Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on Policy Dialogue for Export and Investment Promotion

February 8th, 2023   The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, received today in Rome the UK Secretary of State for Business and Trade, Kemi Badenoch. The meeting was followed by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (Declaration of Intent) for a Strategic Dialogue on Export and […]

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Press Releases
6 February 2023
Italy’s commitment to eliminate the practice of Female Genital Mutilation

On the occasion of the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, Italy is reaffirming its unconditional commitment to the elimination of this aberrant and inhuman practice, which constitutes a serious violation of human rights and has irreversible consequences on the health and physical and psychological development of girls and young women – […]

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Interviews
6 February 2023
Tajani: «We are in favour of the new EU fund to compete with the USA» (La Verità)

Minister Tajani, the week begins with a new episode in the always complicated relations between the USA and China. President Biden had the Chinese spy “balloon” shot down. Is the crisis only just beginning?   «There are very precise international rules for overflight authorisation, which have not been followed. The US legitimate decision to stop […]

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Interviews
6 February 2023
Tajani: «The attack is on the institutions, but let us now close the case. The problems are others» (Corriere della Sera)

ROME – The latest alarm sign has just arrived from the Foreign Ministry: «After those of Saturday in Bogotà, they now inform me that there are writings at the Italian embassy in Bulgaria against the 41 bis harsh prison regime». Antonio Tajani, Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister representing Forza Italia, wants «neither to overdramatise […]

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Press Releases
3 February 2023
Italy – UN Joint Press Release | Stage set in Italy to take stock on progress towards the transformation of food systems across world at critical half-way point of the Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030

ROME, 3 February— On behalf of The Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy, Antonio Tajani, announced today the UN Food Systems Stocktaking Moment, will take place in Rome, Italy from 24 – 26 July 2023, at […]

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Press Releases
3 February 2023
Meeting between Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani and UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed; UN Food Systems Summit to be held in Rome in July

ROME – This morning at the Farnesina, Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, met with UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed. The Deputy Prime Minister and the Deputy Secretary-General agreed to hold in Rome (on 24-26 July 2023) the international summit following up on the Food Systems Summit, […]

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Press Releases
3 February 2023
Tajani-Crosetto: the first Foreign Affairs-Defence Roundtable of the 19th legislature

Rome, 3 February 2023. The first Foreign Affairs-Defence Roundtable of the 19th legislature of the Italian Republic got underway today in Rome, with the meeting between the Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, and the Italian Minister of Defence, Guido Crosetto. The initiative aims to explore issues […]

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