The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, is on a two-day visit to Australia on 27 and 28 November

The Minister’s first stop was in Canberra, where he had a dense agenda of institutional meetings, which began at the Parliament House with the Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, and with his colleague, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, with whom Minister Alfano signed a Memorandum of Understanding on bilateral dialogue. The day’s […]

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Risk Prevention Week in overseas visa offices

The first Risk Prevention Week in overseas visa offices, organised by the Directorate General for Italians Abroad and Immigration Policies (DGIT) and the Inspectorate, will take place from 26 November to 2 December 2017. It is the first structured initiative of this type in the sector in Europe. The Week focuses on preventing the risk […]

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Alfano and Le Drian have telephone conversation: Italy is always on the front line on Libya

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, had a telephone conversation with French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, after arriving in Canberra, where he will pay a three-day visit dense with meetings. “Minister Le Drian contacted me to outline a common effort we are planning at the UN on the theme of […]

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Approaching Rome MED 2017

MED 2017 is the third edition of the international conference co-organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and by the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). The event will convert Rome into a global hub for high-level dialogue on the enlarged Mediterranean, with the aim of redesigning traditional approaches and developing a […]

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Alfano: “This Sea unifies. We must invest in projects for youth”

Strengthening security by multiplying agreements such as the one finetuned with Niger but also investing on the age-old unifying and not divisive idea of the “Mare Nostrum”, 200 million for the Africa Fund, an Erasmus programme for the Mediterranean, and one thousand cultural cooperation projects. Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano heralds the opening of the Med […]

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The Italian strategy in the Mediterranean

  Today, the Mediterranean is a region that is more fragmented and – at the same time – more interconnected than ever. On the one hand, it is the centre of violent crises and sectarian disputes; on the other, a global platform of economic, energy and infrastructural interconnectivity between Europe, Africa and Asia. “Italy – affirmed […]

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PRESS ACCREDITATION NOTICE – IDLO Assembly of Parties and Partnership Forum 2017 (Farnesina, 28-29 November 2017)

On Tuesday, 28 and Wednesday 29 November, concomitantly to the annual Assembly of Parties of IDLO (International Development Law Organization), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation will host the IDLO Partnership Forum “Sustaining peace, sustainable development: the contribution of the rule of law”.   The event is open to the press: On 28 […]

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INFORMATION NOTICE – Meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers (Brussels, 5-6 December 2017)

We inform that the Meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers will take place in Brussels on 5 and 6 December and will be attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano. This is a reminder that the deadline for the accreditation of the press is 6 p.m. on 27 November 2017. The […]

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Security challenges in the Mediterranean

“It is now my pleasure to deliver Italy’s national statement. The focus of today’s Security Council meeting is on an issue of worldwide implications. The Mediterranean is a small sea, almost the size of a large lake when seen on a map. However, it is where much of our global security is at stake. It […]

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Second day of the Plenary Assembly of the General Council for Italians Abroad

Minister Alfano opened the Plenary session of the General Council for Italians Abroad with the following statement: “The more than 5.5 million Italians around the world represent a priceless resource for our Country. Our daily commitment must be to support our fellow-Italians in every corner of the Earth to better capitalise on this precious resource.” 

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Russia – Two prestigious volumes published by the Italian Embassy in Moscow

In the last couple of weeks, the Italian Embassy in Moscow presented two important editorial projects which it edited and published in Italian and Russian. Even if the themes treated are different, the two volumes consolidate the success of Italy’s cultural diplomacy in Russia and represent one of the loftiest efforts of bilateral cultural cooperation, […]

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Farnesina Collection – “Mecenati del XXI secolo – Institutional art awards” 2017 edition

The Farnesina Collection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation was awarded the 2017 “Mecenati del XXI secolo – Institutional art awards”  prize as the best art collection in a public institution. The award ceremony took place today at the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism (MIBACT). This award was organised […]

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