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The European Commission has granted 4.7 billion euros to Italy under REACT-EU to support the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic crisis and contribute to a sustainable socio-economic recovery. The new financing is the result of the modification of two operational programmes of the European Social Fund (ESF) and the European Aid Fund for the Most Deprived (FEAD). Italy’s national ESF pro [...]

The European Commission has adopted a series of exceptional measures to support the viticulture and fruit and vegetable sectors in all Member States. These are the exceptional measures for viticulture: • EU countries can continue to modify their national support programmes at any time, whereas this can usually only be done twice a year (by 1 March and 30 June each year respectively); • for the pro [...]

The export of Italian cheeses is soaring. An Ismea report reveals that after the light bending in value of the exports in 2020, the first semester of 2021 has made to record an increment to double digit of the shipments beyond frontier, is in the quantities (+11%) that in value (+13%) compared to the same period last year. The resumption of the consumption out of house in the main Countries custom [...]

The value of organic agricultural production in Italy is estimated at 3.6 billion euros, with an increase of 1.9% compared to 2020 and an impact on the total agri-food stable around 4%. An encouraging fact reported by Ismea during the International Exhibition of Organic and Natural (Sana) that took place in recent days in Bologna. From the analysis of shopping carts, fruit and vegetables is the ma [...]

Italy will join the Vienna Convention: this will result in lower costs and export barriers for the 7,500 Italian companies in the goldsmith industry. On 16 September, the Council of Ministers approved the draft law on the accession of the Italian Republic to the Convention on the control and marking of precious metal objects made in Vienna in 15 November 1972. With this act, the legislative proces [...]