Parliamentary hearing of the Director General for Italians Abroad and Migration Policies

This morning the Standing Committee on Italians in the World and on Cultural and Economic Promotion and Innovation of the Chambers of Deputies held the hearing of the Director General for Italians Abroad and Migration Policies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Maria Vignali. Director Vignali’s report focused on some of […]

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Ministerial Conference of the Global Geothermal Alliance (GGA)

On 11 September, the first Ministerial Conference of the Global Geothermal Alliance (GGA) was held in Florence, entitled “Working together to promote geothermal energy towards a sustainable energy future”. The Alliance was launched in 2015 by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) to increase international efforts aimed at encouraging conditions that could result in five-fold […]

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Italy’s Economic Diplomacy, 14 September: latest news from the world

Brazil: privatisation plan in the municipality of Sao Paulo continues The “Plano Municipal de Desestatizacao”, begun by the Mayor of Sao Paulo, Joao Doria, as soon as he took office, is now undergoing the most extensive privatisation phase of its history. The public real estate property is being placed on the market and diverse local public services […]

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Austria – Pallavicini presents “Atomic Dandy” (“Atomico Dandy”) in Vienna

“Hartliebs Bucher” bookshop in Vienna will be the venue for a presentation by Piersandro Pallavicini of his book “Atomic Dandy” on Friday, 15 September. The Italian Cultural Institute of Vienna will co-organise the event.  Born in Vigevano in 1962, Pallavicino lectures at the University of Pavia. He is also an inorganic nano chemistry researcher, and […]

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Sudan – Italy’s commitment to reintegrating ex-combatants in Sudan

A ceremony was held in Khartoum at the headquarters of the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Program (“DDR”) to mark the occasion for putting into operation the computer equipment recently donated to Sudan organisations by Cooperation Italy, through the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (“AICS”) in Khartoum.  Attendees at the ceremony included the General Commissioner of […]

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation continues to closely follow the tragedy of Nicolò Ciatti

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, in close cooperation with the Consulate General in Barcelona and the Embassy in Madrid, has been closely following the tragedy of Nicolò Ciatti, a young Italian brutally murdered in Spain on 13 August last. Our Consulate General will continue to provide the family of Nicolò with all […]

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Vincenzo Amendola, the Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, wound up a two-day diplomatic mission to Cyprus today

Vincenzo Amendola, the Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, wound up a two-day diplomatic mission to Cyprus today. The representative of the Italian Government has been in the capital, Nicosia, since yesterday, where he met with the Minister of Health, George Pamboridis, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ioannis Kasoulides. Bilateral relations and migration issues […]

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Australia – the Lavazza Italian Film Festival starts tomorrow in Melbourne

The Lavazza Italian Film Festival (LIFF) kicks off in Melbourne tomorrow. This film festival has been bringing the best of Italian film production to Australia since 2000. Opening the festival will be the film “Let yourself go!” (“Lasciati andare”), directed by Francesco Amato and starring Tony Servillo. Other films to be screened include “Indivisible” (“Indivisibili”) […]

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Japan – Exhibitions, the “Voices and colours of nature” (“Voci e colori della natura”) live again in the works of Laura Galvagno

 The exhibition “Voices and colours of nature” (“Voci e colori della natura”) includes 20 abstract works of art which take their inspiration from the world of nature and were created by Laura Galvagno between 2014 and 2017. The Artistic Area of the Italian Cultural Institute in Osaka will host the exhibit, which opens on 15 September […]

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France – Open day at the Italian Cultural Institute in Marseilles on Saturday

Next Saturday, there will be an open day at the Italian Cultural Institute in Marseilles.  The Institute is organising a “Casa d’Italia” tour as part of the 2017 European Heritage Days and the IV Biennial on immigration organised by the  RHMIT network (history and memory of immigration and territories network), dealing with history, recollections, heritage […]

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The exhibition in Paris: “Sempre libera. Maria Callas at La Scala”​

The Italian Cultural Institute in Paris has teamed up with the Accademia Teatro alla Scala to organise an exhibition marking the fortieth anniversary of the death of Maria Callas. To mark the fortieth anniversary of the death of Maria Callas, which occurred in Paris on 16 September 1977, the Italian Cultural Institute has teamed up […]

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Alfano: “Italy supports the WFP’s school canteen programme in Mali”

“Through the Italian Cooperation service, I have arranged for an immediate half-million-euro contribution to the World Food Program to fund a school canteen programme in Mali,” announced the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano. He continued: “The programmes promoting school canteens represent an important educational instrument by enabling minors to have at […]

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