Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy)
The Italian Foreign Ministry ( Ministero degli Affari Esteri Italian, MAE ) is one of the ministries of the Italian Government. It is responsible for the foreign policy of Italy. After his headquarters in the Palazzo della Farnesina in Rome, it is unofficially called short Farnesina. Acting Foreign Minister is Federica Mogherini.
Organization
The political leadership consists of the ministers and two or three secretaries of state. The latter are in Italy No officials but politicians. Official head of the ministry which is the highest official is the Secretary-General. Administratively subject to him the head of department ( " Directors-General ") of the current eight departments ( " General " ) of the Ministry and four smaller, supportive organizational units, including the Protocol service. In addition, the Ministry in Italy has some downstream facilities including two research institutes and a Diplomatic Academy ( Istituto Diplomatico ) and a conference and guest house (Villa Madama).
The Italian Foreign Ministry has currently (2010) a total of 123 messages in other states, nine permanent missions to international organizations and a greater number of consular offices of various kinds, the Italian Consulate General in Jerusalem also holds connection to the Palestinian Authority. In Taipei ( Taiwan), the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs maintains an office with special status. There are also around 90 cultural institutions that are assigned to embassies in the control. The State Department also has responsibilities in the field of Italian schools abroad and the Italian departments and teachers to ( subsidized ) foreign educational institutions.
History
Although the origins of modern diplomacy at the northern Italian city-states of the early Renaissance as Milan, Florence, and especially the Republic of Venice go back ( Venetian diplomacy ), modern Italy has achieved no long nation-state diplomatic tradition such as France because of his late political agreement. At the top of the Italian unification movement was from 1848, the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, in the 1861 the old Italian states were incorporated and adopted the so called " Kingdom of Italy ". Therefore, the conventional sections and some other institutions in Italy have a Piedmontese history.
On February 17, 1717 King Victor Amadeus II divided the previously existing State Secretariat in two secretariats, one for Foreign Affairs and one for internal affairs. Added to this was the Secretariat Originating in the 17th century for war. In the train of the revolution of 1848 and the Constitution adopted by Charles Albert ( Statuto Albertino ) the now seven Secretaries of State were renamed ministries. The Foreign Ministry remained with the other ministries to 1865 in Turin. In the train of the transfer of the capital took until 1870 to Florence and finally to Rome. Finally, where the State Department had until 1922 its headquarters in the Palazzo della Consulta on the Quirinal, to 1959 it was housed in the Palazzo Chigi next to the Chamber of Deputies, then it came to the Palazzo della Farnesina, located on the northwestern outskirts next to the Olympic Stadium. In recent years, led the Foreign Ministry by profound organizational reforms. 2010, the departments were reduced from thirteen to eight, and the division of powers by continents or regions of the world in favor of individual task areas largely abolished. The missions received more financial and administrative independence. The reorganization and thinning of the network of consular offices met repeatedly with considerable resistance.