(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 20 - "Italian diplomacy has played and must continue to play a leading role in favor of Italy's relaunch in the post-pandemic": said Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio at the Conference of Ambassadors and ambassadors.
"Following the transfer of competences in the field of trade and internationalization, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has rethought and intensified its export support strategy, to support the Italian economic fabric in the midst of the pandemic and lay the foundations for a robust recovery. - Di Maio recalled. - The Pact for Export, with an allocation of over 5.7 billion euros, is at the heart of this strategy. human capital and technological growth of our companies ".
"The data of Italian exports in 2021 - 423 billion euros in the first ten months of the year, a record that even exceeds the boom year, 2019, which recorded 402 billion euros in export volume in the same period - comfort us on the goodness of steps taken. - underlined the minister - We have therefore decided to make the measures we have adopted structural, maintaining an integrated approach to the promotion of Italy in the world, which combines the economic dimension, culture and language - with the crucial role of the Italian Cultural Institutes -, innovation and research. To this end we have foreseen in the budget law, for the next five-year period, up to 2026, an allocation of 1.5 billion per year on a revolving basis and 150 million euros for lost funds ".
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