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Press Releases

12 August 2023

“Tajani: Dati export primo semestre 2023 molto positivi”

“Il forte impegno del Governo per aumentare gli investimenti esteri e le opportunità per le aziende italiane è concreto” ha dichiarato il Vice Presidente del Consiglio e Ministro degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, On. Antonio Tajani, commentando i dati relativi al commercio estero italiano del primo semestre del 2023. L’export dei beni è […]

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Diplomatic Network

10 August 2023

Italy brings La Città Ideale (The Ideal City) by Mario Cucinella to Expo 2025 Osaka. Tajani: “Our pavilion will be an outstanding instrument for growth diplomacy”

The call for tenders for designing and building the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka has been awarded: the winning project was submitted by the group led by architect Mario Cucinella, a renowned professional and winner of numerous international awards. The Italian Pavilion will be a modern version of the Ideal City, an iconic symbol […]

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Press Releases

10 August 2023

Italy brings La Città Ideale (The Ideal City) by Mario Cucinella to Expo 2025 Osaka. Tajani: “Our pavilion will be an outstanding instrument for growth diplomacy”

The call for tenders for designing and building the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka has been awarded: the winning project was submitted by the group led by architect Mario Cucinella, a renowned professional and winner of numerous international awards. The Italian Pavilion will be a modern version of the Ideal City, an iconic symbol […]

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Interviews

10 August 2023

«A law to be written well to safeguard savers. The ECB made a mistake, but it would be wrong to turn against the banks. Forza Italia will be ambitious» (il Giornale)

Antonio Tajani, Forza Italia’s leader, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, explains his opinion on the additional profit tax for banks, which «could be decided with closed markets», and on the minimum wage, to which he favours the Italian mediation proposal. He continues by discussing how he will relaunch his party, the world forecasts, […]

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Press Releases

8 August 2023

Francesco Corvaro is Italy’s new Special Envoy for Climate Change

Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, and Italian Minister of the Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichetto, have appointed Francesco Corvaro as the new Special Envoy for Climate Change. Corvaro is an Associate Professor in Industrial Technical Physics at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Mathematical Sciences […]

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Interviews

8 August 2023

Marcinelle, Italian emigrants and the sacrifice honouring the country (Il Mattino)

On 8 August 1956 in Marcinelle, on the outskirts of Charleroi, a fire broke out in one of the pits of the Bois du Cazier coal mine, killing 262 miners, 136 of whom were Italians coming from Abruzzo, Friuli, Apulia, Marche, Molise, Calabria and Sicily, Lombardy and Tuscany, Veneto and Campania. After having participated many […]

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In detail

8 August 2023

Message from Minister Tajani on the day of the 67th anniversary of the Marcinelle tragedy

Dear Italians abroad, it is with great emotion that today we commemorate the Marcinelle tragedy on its 67th anniversary. In memory of the 262 victims of 11 different nationalities – of whom 136 were Italian nationals – who lost their lives in the mining accident. Since 2001, on the anniversary of Marcinelle, the 8 August […]

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In detail

7 August 2023

Mission of Minister Antonio Tajani on the occasion of the 67th anniversary of the Marcinelle mining disaster

Antonio Tajani, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, will attend the 67th commemoration of the Marcinelle tragedy in Belgium on 8 August in the presence of the Belgian Royal Family. On that day in 1956, 262 miners, including 136 Italians, died in the Bois du Cazier coal mine. This is […]

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Press Releases

7 August 2023

Ministry of Foreign Affairs Note

The inspection immediately sent by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, to the embassies of Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Pakistan to verify the procedures applied in issuing entry visas for Italy has just ended. The precise work of analysing the results of the inspection is underway and the final report of […]

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Press Releases

7 August 2023

Elisabetta Cocciaretto appointed as the first “Sports Diplomacy Ambassador”

Today Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, met with the Italian tennis player Elisabetta Cocciaretto at the Farnesina and appointed her as the first “Sports Diplomacy Ambassador”. Thanks to the result obtained last 30 July in the Women’s Tennis Association tournament in Lausanne, the young athlete became […]

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In detail

7 August 2023

“Russia and Wagner the new colonisers in Africa; the EU must now change course” (La Stampa)

The Prime Minister of Niger, currently in exile in France, appealed to Italy and the West to provide support in stopping not only the coup leaders, but above all the jihadists heading south. Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani replied that a Western military intervention was not an option at the moment and that […]

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Interviews

7 August 2023

“Russia and Wagner the new colonisers in Africa; the EU must now change course” (La Stampa)

The Prime Minister of Niger, currently in exile in France, appealed to Italy and the West to provide support in stopping not only the coup leaders, but above all the jihadists heading south. Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani replied that a Western military intervention was not an option at the moment and that […]

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