(April 19th, 2016) Ports, research, infrastructure, tourism: The cooperation Friuli Venezia Giulia and Germany strengthens. This relationship is going to be further confirmed by the meeting scheduled for May 4th in Trieste when the top brass of the Italian region and the President of Bavaria Horst Seehofer will meet to effectively sign collaboration agreements that will affect several fields. In anticipation of the May encounter , a meeting was held yesterday in Trieste between the President of the Region Friuli Venezia Giulia, Debora Serracchiani, and the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Milan, Jutta Wolke. Ms. Serracchiani recalled the direct rail and airport connection between Friuli Venezia Giulia and the city of Monaco. Furthermore she stressed the importance of the relationship with Germany, and in particular with Bavaria. The relationship involves not only the institutions, but also some important industrial groups of the region and some sectors of research in the biomedical field. Moreover, the President stresses the movement ability of the Region in developing in international relations. She explained “ This autonomy is envisaged by the special status of Friuli Venezia Giulia” In this regard the President recalled the recent approach mission to Iran, which was followed by the signature of a series of agreements that benefit the whole economic and commercial production system of the Region. (PO/ red)