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Telling, through the voices of those who work in the Foreign Ministry and in the vast network of Embassies, Consulates and Cultural Institutes, the work of the Farnesina in Italy and in the world, allowing a look behind the scenes on the ministry's activity: foreign policy , development cooperation, assistance to compatriots in difficulty, issue of tourist and business visas, but also international trade, promotion of Made in Italy and much more.
It is with this objective that "Voci dalla Farnesina", the new podcast channel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, created in collaboration with the ANSA agency, is inaugurated today.
What are the economic instruments that the Farnesina puts in place for compatriots abroad in difficulty due to the pandemic?
What does the Foreign Ministry do to promote the Italian language and culture abroad through its diplomatic network and cultural institutes?
How is Italian development cooperation responding to the global crisis caused by the pandemic to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals?
What do the Italian Consulates do to assist our compatriots in a state of arrest or arrest abroad?
These will be some of the issues that will be addressed every week in the podcast episodes.
On the other hand, pills entirely dedicated to presenting ideas and opportunities specifically aimed at Italian companies in support of their internationalization process will be published on a daily basis in the section "Farnesina per le Imprese".
We begin today with episode zero: a dialogue between the Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Elisabetta Belloni, and the director of the ANSA agency, Luigi Contu, to tell the objectives and contents of this new editorial project, which seeks to answer the question "what does diplomacy mean" and what impact the activity of the Foreign Ministry has on people's lives and on the protection and promotion of Italy's interests in the world.