{"id":75284,"date":"2022-03-23T17:34:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T16:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2022\/03\/incontro-del-sottosegretario-di-stato-agli-affari-esteri-e-alla-cooperazione-internazionale-manlio-di-stefano-con-la-segretaria-di-stato-alleconomia-della-confederazione-elvetica-marie-gabrie\/"},"modified":"2022-03-24T10:52:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T09:52:14","slug":"incontro-del-sottosegretario-di-stato-agli-affari-esteri-e-alla-cooperazione-internazionale-manlio-di-stefano-con-la-segretaria-di-stato-alleconomia-della-confederazione-elvetica-marie-gabrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2022\/03\/incontro-del-sottosegretario-di-stato-agli-affari-esteri-e-alla-cooperazione-internazionale-manlio-di-stefano-con-la-segretaria-di-stato-alleconomia-della-confederazione-elvetica-marie-gabrie\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting between Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Manlio Di Stefano, and the State Secretary for Economic Affairs of the Swiss Confederation, Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Undersecretary of State, the Hon. Manlio Di Stefano, had a fruitful working meeting today with the State Secretary for Economic Affairs of the Swiss Confederation, Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch. The meeting focused on bilateral relations, the crisis in Ukraine and the reform of the World Trade Organisation. The discussion gave both parties an opportunity to confirm and underscore the \u201cexcellent partnership between Italy and Switzerland\u201d. As Undersecretary Di Stefano observed, \u201cwe are linked by historic relationships, intense cross-border relations, and deep political, economic and cultural ties\u201d with the Swiss Confederation, \u201cas shown by the signing of numerous bilateral agreements in recent years and the fruitful dialogue between our countries\u201d. Switzerland is, in fact, Italy\u2019s fifth trading partner, with trade amounting to around 38 billion euros and a surplus on the Italian side of 16 billion euros.<\/span><\/p>\n

During their meeting, the Hon. Di Stefano and\u00a0State Secretary\u00a0Ineichen-Fleisch\u00a0noted the excellent trade and investment relations between Italy and Switzerland. They also discussed the outlook for future economic and commercial cooperation, especially in the clean energy, pharmaceutical and transport sectors. The State Secretary expressed the interest shown by Swiss businesses in the Italian market and in investment opportunities linked to the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. On this subject, Undersecretary Di Stefano described the initiatives launched by the Italian Government and by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in particular, to support businesses and also make it possible to further strengthen bilateral economic relations. Of these, the Hon. Di Stefano mentioned the Venture Capital Fund and the Pact for Export, which includes the \u201cBe IT\u201d nation branding campaign.<\/p>\n

Turning to the crisis in Ukraine and the economic consequences for Europe, the Undersecretary and the Swiss State Secretary agreed on \u201cthe need to reconsider global value chains\u201d and diversify imports of energy and raw materials, to become \u201cindependent from Russia\u201d and rely \u201cmore on like-minded countries\u201d, as the Hon Di Stefano stated.<\/p>\n

Undersecretary Di Stefano and\u00a0State Secretary\u00a0Ineichen-Fleisch subsequently tackled the main points on the agenda of the upcoming Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, which principally concern the intellectual property of pharmaceutical products, fishing and farming subsidies, and\u00a0Organization’s institutional\u00a0reform. In respect of these points,\u00a0Undersecretary Di Stefano deems it necessary to “facilitate the start of a negotiation as soon as possible”.<\/p>\n

Lastly,\u00a0Undersecretary Di Stefano\u00a0recalled Rome’s candidacy to host Expo 2030 and illustrated\u00a0to\u00a0State Secretary\u00a0Ineichen-Fleisch\u00a0the specifics of Italy’s project which is focused on urban regeneration in the light of the green transition and digitalization. Italy’s candidacy is “essential to relaunch Europe after the difficult period of the pandemic and of the Ukrainian crisis”, Undersecretary Di Stefano concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Undersecretary of State, the Hon. Manlio Di Stefano, had a fruitful working meeting today with the State Secretary for Economic Affairs of the Swiss Confederation, Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch. The meeting focused on bilateral relations, the crisis in Ukraine and the reform of the World Trade Organisation. The discussion gave both parties an opportunity to confirm […]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,9,399],"class_list":["post-75284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diplomazia-economica","tag-europa","tag-vice-ministri-e-sottosegretari-precedenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75284","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75286,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75284\/revisions\/75286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}