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Meeting of Minister Luigi Di Maio with the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and Head of UNFICYP, Elizabeth Spehar

On 9 March 2021, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Luigi Di Maio met the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and Head of UNFICYP, Elizabeth Spehar, in Nicosia. Minister Di Maio reiterated Italy’s support for the UN mission on the island (Unficyp) and the importance of a solution to the Cyprus […]

Minister Luigi Di Maio meets the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides

On 9 March, in Nicosia, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, has met with the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides. The meeting has focused on the common approach to European issues, post-Covid economic recovery, migration, Libya and the Eastern Mediterranean.      

Minister Luigi Di Maio’s mission to the Republic of Cyprus

Today, Minister Di Maio is on a mission to the Republic of Cyprus. On the agenda: – Meeting with the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades – Meeting with the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides – Press statements – Meeting with the Special Representative of the Secretary General of […]

Minister Luigi Di Maio meets at the Foreign Ministry with the Foreign Minister of the Republic of North Macedonia, Bujar Osmani

On 8 March, at the Foreign Ministry, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, met his counterpart of the Republic of North Macedonia, Bujar Osmani, to discuss bilateral relations between Italy and North Macedonia, the strengthening of economic cooperation in the fields of energy, infrastructure and transport, the process of European […]

Airbus/Boeing: EU and USA sign a preliminary agreement for suspending tariffs

Following a conversation between European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen and US President Joe Biden, the EU and the USA have agreed to suspend their respective tariffs imposed in the Airbus-Boeing disputes, both on aircraft and other products, for an initial period of 4 months. The EU and the USA have also committed to […]

Joint press conference with Minister Di Maio and Minister Le Drian

Request for authorisation to export COVID-19 vaccines filed by AstraZeneca

On 24 February, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs received a request for authorisation to export COVID-19 vaccines from AstraZeneca, in accordance with the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/111, approved on 30 January 2021, “making the exportation of certain products subject to the production of an export authorisation”. In previous cases of authorisation requests received from […]

Telephone talks with the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, held telephone talks with the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell. The talks focused on the cooperation between Italy and the EU on issues related to Libya and the Eastern Mediterranean.  

Minister Di Maio participates in the informal meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council – Trade

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, participated today by videoconference in the informal meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council – Trade dedicated to the European Commission Communication on the Union’s trade policy review. At the outset, Minister Di Maio thanked EU Commission Vice-President Dombrovskis for his briefing to the […]

Minister Di Maio holds telephone talks with the Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, held telephone talks today with the Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen. The talks centred on the crisis in the Tigre region and the resulting humanitarian situation. The Minister and the Commissioner discussed Italy’s possible actions, within the EU framework, to foster the cessation […]

Minister Di Maio participates in the informal meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council – Trade

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, participated today by videoconference in the informal meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council – Trade dedicated to the European Commission Communication on the Union’s trade policy review. At the outset, Minister Di Maio thanked EU Commission Vice-President Dombrovskis for his briefing to the […]

Foreign Ministry Note – Navalny

The Foreign Ministry expresses consternation at the news of Aleksey Navalny’s long prison sentence; a sentence originating from a trial itself defined as “arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable” by the European Court of Human Rights. The detention of Mr. Navalny, after he was poisoned with a chemical agent last August, confirms the trend of suppression of […]