Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Thursday that it is impossible for Italy to spend 5% of GDP on defence after United States President Donald Trump called for NATO countries to lift expenditure to this threshold.

Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani on Monday said he hoped the US would promote peace while noting that both Donald Trump and Joe Biden had been instrumental in the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

C onflicting SIGNALS are reaching the new American administration from Rome. And some carry a whiff of incense. While Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, was preparing to fly to Washington to schmooze President Donald Trump and his chums, a leader on the other side of the Tiber was communicating stark disapproval of their plans.

The Italian government has met to discuss the case of an Italian national arrested in Venezuela two months ago and held without formal charges.

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani summoned Venezuela's charge d'affaires Wednesday to protest Venezuela's announced restrictions on French, Italian and Dutch diplomats on its soil.

Italy's government supports Banca Monte dei Paschi's (MPS) bid for merchant bank Mediobanca as the proposed deal may strengthen the country's banking system. The 13.3 billion euro ($13.97 billion) all-share offer comes after a year in which the Italian Treasury sharply cut its stake in formerly bailed-out MPS,

The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), Antonio Tajani, signed today at the Farnesina (headquarters of the Ministry) the first agreement on aircraft and transport services between Italy and Mongolia with the Undersecretary of Transport of Mongolia,

The Italian Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, received his counterparts from the United States, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom this Thursday in Rome to encourage a transition that makes Syria a "stable" country and allows for the return of refugees.

[Riccardo De Luca/Anadolu via Getty Images] ROME - In the first high-level European visit to Israel and Palestine since the ceasefire, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani called for greater ...

By Valentina Za and Gianluca Semeraro MILAN (Reuters) -State-backed Monte dei Paschi di Siena on Friday joined the consolidation wave sweeping Italian banking with a surprise 13.3 billion euro ($14 billion) all-share offer to buy merchant bank Mediobanca.

Italy, Germany, Austria, Algeria and Tunisia have signed a joint declaration of intent in Rome on the Southern Hydrogen Corridor, an infrastructure project to transport renewable hydrogen for over 3300 kilometres from North Africa to Italy,