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 said Italy was a sovereign State and was free to make its own decisions in its territory after the International Criminal Court (ICC) asked Rome to explain the release of Libyan police chief Njeem Osama Almasri Habish.

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.

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani is heading to Syria to encourage the transition in the country following the ouster of President Bashar Assad by Islamist insurgents.

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.

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

Njeem is a brigadier general in Libya’s Judicial Police who the ICC said is suspected of crimes against humanity and war crimes at the Mitiga Detention Centre in Tripoli. Meloni’s government depends heavily on Libyan security forces to prevent would-be migrants from leaving the North African nation and heading to southern Italy.

[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 ...

ROME - Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and his centre-right party Forza Italia on Tuesday urged Italians living in Germany to support the conservative alliance in the country's snap ...

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,

ROME (Reuters) - Italy summoned Venezuela's ... to challenge the expulsion of three of our diplomats," Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani wrote on X. Daily la Repubblica reported that Trentini ...

ROME — Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said he will travel to Syria on Friday to encourage the country's transition following the ouster of President Bashar Assad by Islamist insurgents ...