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Press Releases

7 May 2025

Export Plan – The Facilitation Committee has approved funding of € 109 million in favour of 228 companies. Green light has been given for the establishment of a € 500 million reserve for a new soft finance measure dedicated to the Asia-Pacific region.

The Facilitation Committee, chaired by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, today approved the creation of a € 500 million reserve within the 394/81 Fund for a new soft finance line aimed at supporting investments by Italian companies with interests in the Asia-Pacific area. This new measure will become operational once the necessary implementation steps are […]

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In detail

7 May 2025

Address by Minister Antonio Tajani at the Confindustria’s Foreign Investors Advisory Board

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, is taking part in the Confindustria’s Foreign Investors Advisory Board. The 2025 edition will focus on the strategic relationship with foreign enterprises: innovating to compete in the new global landscape, towards an Italy that remains competitive, attractive, and integrated into global networks.

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Economic Diplomacy

6 May 2025

Italy – Mexico Business Forum (22 May 2025)

A new stage in the implementation of the Export Action Plan is coming to Mexico City: the Italy-Mexico Business Forum will be held in the Mexican capital on 22 May.  The initiative is organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, in collaboration with ITA, on the occasion of the visit of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign […]

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Press Releases

5 May 2025

Minister Tajani’s Mission to Croatia

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, is in Zagreb to take part in the Italy-Croatia Business Forum and to hold some meetings with local authorities. The mission is mainly designed to further relaunch the already excellent economic partnership between Italy and Croatia. With trade worth over EUR 8 billion and a […]

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Interviews

30 April 2025

Tajani: “Peace in Ukraine by the end of the year. Moscow’s truce is just a bluff” (La Stampa)

Rome – “I am convinced that the war in Ukraine will end within this year”. Antonio Tajani, speaking from the European People’s Party congress in Valencia — where he is due to be re-confirmed as Vice President today — expresses confident optimism about an imminent end to the conflict between Moscow and Kyiv. The Minister of […]

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Press Releases

28 April 2025

Situation in Spain and Portugal following power outage

The Foreign Ministry continues to monitor the situation in the Iberian Peninsula following the extensive power outage, which had a significant impact on airport and long-distance train traffic in Spain and Portugal, as well as widespread restrictions on health and banking services in the two countries. About 3,600 Italians in Spain (of whom more than […]

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Interviews

28 April 2025

Tajani: “Peace is now closer. The EU needs a revolution” (Il Giornale)

Antonio Tajani is about to depart for Valencia, Spain, where the EPP Congress opens today. In his heart and mind is Pope Francis’s last appeal for peace, that meeting on two small red chairs in St. Peter’s between Trump and Zelensky, held during the Pope’s funeral, and hopes for an agreement with Putin. But also […]

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Interviews

28 April 2025

Tajani: «Rome as the centre of the world. From here a push for peace and dialogue in the West» (Il Messaggero)

Minister Tajani, is seeing Trump and Zelensky in St. Peter’s Basilica talking about peace the beginning of a breakthrough or will it happen like Israel and Iran who talked to each other during Wojtyla’s funeral but then did nothing? «I believe that this time there is the will to conclude. We shall see, however, what […]

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Press Releases

24 April 2025

Tajani il 25 aprile: alle Fosse Ardeatine e a Ferentino per don Morosini, sacerdote Medaglia d’oro al valor militare

Il Vice Presidente del Consiglio e Ministro degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione internazionale Antonio Tajani, domani alle 10:30 sarà in rappresentanza del Governo alle Fosse Ardeatine in occasione dell’80° anniversario della Festa della Liberazione. Presso il Mausoleo Ardeatino, il Ministro deporrà una corona d’alloro sulla lapide posta all’ingresso della Cave Ardeatine, alla quale seguirà […]

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Press Releases

24 April 2025

Tajani in Egypt for Gaza, Libya, the Red Sea, and Economic Cooperation

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, is in Egypt today for meetings with the President of the Republic, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Badr Abdelatty. The primary aim of the visit is to sign a number of agreements, including, first and foremost, a memorandum for the establishment […]

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Press Releases

24 April 2025

Minister Tajani’s mission to Egypt

The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, is in Egypt today, 24 April, where he will meet with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Badr Abdelatty. The main objective of the visit is to sign a number of agreements, including a memorandum for the creation of an Italian-Egyptian Employment […]

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Press Releases

23 April 2025

Tajani on 25 April at the Fosse Ardeatine and in Ferentino for Don Morosini

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, will represent the Government on 25 April at 10:30 a.m. during the Liberation Day celebrations, attending the Fosse Ardeatine to honour the 355 victims of the Nazi-Fascist massacre. At 12:30 p.m., Minister Tajani will also pay tribute to Don Giuseppe Morosini at […]

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