Amb. Miscia, strong economic exchange with Portugal

(ANSA) - ROMA, 16 DIC - "The one between Italy and Portugal is a beautiful interchange. Portugal exports cars to Italy and we export machinery, but also building materials, there are Italian companies in textiles, fashion and practically all sectors, obviously including food, which is one of the things we export the most, although we maintain the ancient tradition of the Roman Empire of importing canned fish from Portugal'. This was explained by the Italian ambassador to Portugal, Claudio Miscia, on the margins of the annual ambassadors' meeting at the Farnesina.
    "The role of the ambassador and the embassy," he added, "is one of promoting culture, our way of life, but above all our companies, industry and trade. "In Portugal, a country that really appreciates us, that knows us well, perhaps more than we know Portugal,' the ambassador continued, 'Italian companies have space. In addition, the premises of the embassy, which is housed in a very beautiful historical building, are available to our companies, which have found here the home of Italy and an elegant and beautiful way to promote their products'.
    'In the country then,' he added, 'there is an important Italian community of more than 40,000 people. In the past, the emphasis has been a little bit on the fact that it was made up of pensioners, who had favourable taxation, which no longer exists, while in reality these are a small group while there are many young people who do Erasmus, who go to university, who are researchers, who work. From Portugal there are people coming to Italy to recruit young people to work in this country with a population density more or less half that of Italy. A country that feels the need to better occupy its territory and facilitates immigration both from European countries and from the Portuguese-speaking community'.