Visiting London on 22 October 2025, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani joined EU and Western Balkan leaders at the annual Berlin-Process summit, stressing that sustainable growth in the region depends on orderly mobility. In the plenary session dedicated to ‘growth, migration and security’, Tajani argued that EU candidate countries must align their asylum policies with EU standards and boost border-management capacity before accession.
He highlighted Rome’s bilateral labour-mobility agreements with Albania and Serbia as models for legal pathways that reduce irregular flows across the Adriatic. Tajani also invited Balkan ministers to a workshop in Bari in December on skills-matching platforms funded by Italy’s development-co-operation arm AICS.
On the sidelines, the minister inaugurated ‘Casa Italia’, the new embassy and cultural-trade hub near Buckingham Palace, calling it “a one-stop shop for diplomacy, culture and business promotion”. Italian companies scouting near-shore manufacturing sites in North Macedonia and Montenegro welcomed the focus on talent mobility, noting chronic labour shortages in Italy’s logistics and construction sectors.
The summit communiqué, to be finalised on 23 October, is expected to endorse a pilot EU-funded trainee-visa scheme for Western Balkan graduates in member-state companies.
He highlighted Rome’s bilateral labour-mobility agreements with Albania and Serbia as models for legal pathways that reduce irregular flows across the Adriatic. Tajani also invited Balkan ministers to a workshop in Bari in December on skills-matching platforms funded by Italy’s development-co-operation arm AICS.
On the sidelines, the minister inaugurated ‘Casa Italia’, the new embassy and cultural-trade hub near Buckingham Palace, calling it “a one-stop shop for diplomacy, culture and business promotion”. Italian companies scouting near-shore manufacturing sites in North Macedonia and Montenegro welcomed the focus on talent mobility, noting chronic labour shortages in Italy’s logistics and construction sectors.
The summit communiqué, to be finalised on 23 October, is expected to endorse a pilot EU-funded trainee-visa scheme for Western Balkan graduates in member-state companies.
