After Chile and Argentina, the president of Lombardy, Attilio Fontana, is on a mission to Brazil, where he signed a collaboration agreement with the governor of the state of São Paulo, Tarcisio de Freitas, to promote exchanges of best practices and create virtuous synergies in the academic, economic and research spheres between the Lombardy region and the Paulist state.
"The first objective of this visit is the importance of further intensifying the relationship between Italy and Brazil," Fontana told ANSA during the 'Matckmaking Impresa' event hosted last night in the Italian consulate in São Paulo, emphasising that "relations have existed for a long time" - in 2024 the trade interchange between the Lombardy region and Brazil exceeded 2.1 billion euros - "but as Alfredo Cotait Neto, the president of the Federation of Trade and Business Associations of the state of São Paulo told us, in recent times there has been less intensity."
For Fontana, this mission 'is important at a time when certainties are crumbling worldwide, with some countries closing their borders and others trying to buy up the world' because 'Brazil and Italy, like the state of São Paulo and the region of Lombardy, have the opportunity to make a difference, having many elements in common: cultural, historical, social, political and economic'.
The Lombardy governor told ANSA that 'Lombardy is open to collaborating in all sectors', emphasising in particular the great opportunities in those of 'aerospace, health, all sectors linked to innovation, digitalisation and artificial intelligence, and agribusiness'.
In addition to Mr. Fontana, the Lombardy delegation comprised the Secretary for International Relations, Raffaele Cattaneo, the top management of Assolombarda, the Italian Agency for Internationalisation-Promos, and the sector associations Anie (the Italian Federation of Electrotechnical and Electronic Companies), Anima Confindustria (the Federation of Italian Mechanics Industry Associations) and Ucimu, the Italian association of machine tool, robot and automation manufacturers, today visited the largest Pirelli and Luxottica plants in South America, both in Campinas, a city of 1.3 million inhabitants in the state of São Paulo.
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