\u201cWe, the Foreign Ministry together with Italian enterprises, continue to do teamwork together to make Milan, Lombardy and Italy win the challenge,\u201d said Angelino Alfano, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, in addressing the meeting of Assolombarda\u2019s Advisory Board today in Milan.<\/p>\n
The Minister confirmed the Foreign Ministry\u2019s intention to fully support Italian companies\u2019 foreign relations, also through the diplomatic and consular network which, the minister said, is \u201ca full-fledged strategic asset made available to Brand Italy, both in attracting and making investments in Italy and in fostering the penetration and expansion of Italian exports on markets worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n
Through the Situation Room for Internationalisation, the Government supported the Plan for the Extraordinary Promotion of Made-in-Italy Products and to Attract Investments by financing it with an additional 300 million euros for the 2015-2017 three-year period. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEconomic diplomacy \u2013 recalled Mr Alfano \u2013 has already contributed to producing more than 1% of GDP in 2015 and generating 234,000 jobs, almost 1% of total employment.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Minister\u2019s address to the Advisory Board also offered the opportunity to analyse Milan\u2019s potential in attracting new investments and international financial services. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Milan, the capital of a region that attracts 90% of multinational corporations and 60% of foreign investment in Italy, \u201cis already effectively at the heart of Europe\u201d Mr Alfano said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe, the Foreign Ministry together with Italian enterprises, continue to do teamwork together to make Milan, Lombardy and Italy win the challenge,\u201d said Angelino Alfano, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, in addressing the meeting of Assolombarda\u2019s Advisory Board today in Milan. The Minister confirmed the Foreign Ministry\u2019s intention to fully support Italian […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,76,58],"class_list":["post-4579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comunicati","tag-diplomazia-economica","tag-ministri-precedenti","tag-promozione-integrata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579","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=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}