Italy\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Antonio Tajani met with the President of the Republic of Albania Bajram Begaj in Torre Melissa (KR).<\/p>\n
The meeting was an opportunity to highlight the significant progress made towards consolidating relations between Italy and Albania. One of the pillars of this partnership is cooperation on migration issues, following on the bilateral protocol signed in November 2023.<\/p>\n
\u201cBilateral cooperation at the political level is particularly strong and trade between Italy and Albania \u2013 amounting to EUR 3.3 billion in 2023 \u2013 is solid: all the conditions for further strengthening this extraordinary friendship and for building a common future in the European Union are in place,\u201d stressed Minister Tajani, who reiterated Italy\u2019s convinced support for Albania\u2019s EU accession process.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow, Deputy Prime Minister Tajani will take part in the centenary commemoration of the death of Anselmo Lorecchio \u2013 an Arb\u00ebresh\u00eb journalist and intellectual and a key figure in the Albanian renaissance movement \u2013 to be held in Pallagorio, near Crotone. He will also have meetings with the Calabrian community of Albanian origin, descendants of Albanian-speaking emigrants who arrived in Italy as early as the 15th<\/sup> century: the Calabrian community is the largest Arb\u00ebresh\u00eb community in Italy, with over 58,000 people.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Antonio Tajani met with the President of the Republic of Albania Bajram Begaj in Torre Melissa (KR). The meeting was an opportunity to highlight the significant progress made towards consolidating relations between Italy and Albania. One of the pillars of this partnership is […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,28,42],"class_list":["post-116596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comunicati","tag-europa","tag-ministro","tag-unione-europea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116597,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116596\/revisions\/116597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}