Alfano: «Ankara’s accession to the EU is not an issue on the table now» (Corriere della Sera)

And now what? How do we handle our relationship with Turkey after it has gone back to being a State with strong authoritarian traits and, at the same time, remains a Country bordering both with the European Union and with a warring Syria and that, within NATO, has the second-largest armed force in terms of […]

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Minister Alfano on the outcome of the Referendum in Turkey

Angelino Alfano, minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, on the outcome of the Referendum in Turkey: “We acknowledge – says Minister Alfano – the results of the referendum and await completion of the verifications and final assessment of the OSCE- ODIHR observation mission. In the meantime we hope that – consistently with Turkey’s membership in the Council of Europe – the tensions within the Country will cool down and that the oppositions may take part in the implementation of reforms”. 

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Minister Alfano’s week

The highlight of this week was the meeting of the G7 Foreign Affairs Ministers, a gathering of worldwide importance that I had the honour and responsibility of chairing in the city of Lucca. The responsibility was even greater on this occasion because the diplomatic leaders of the most industrialized Countries were meeting for the first […]

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Gabriele Del Grande case. Note by the Foreign Ministry

In relation to Gabriele Del Grande, the Italian citizen who was arrested in Turkey because he entered an area in the Country that is closed off to public access, we inform that Turkish Authorities have assured that the Italian is well. The Foreign Ministry, in close cooperation with the Italian Embassy in Ankara and the […]

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PRESS ACCREDITATION NOTICE – Joint press conference between Minister Alfano and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov (Farnesina, 20 April 2017)

On Thursday  20 April, at 1 p.m.,  the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano,  meets Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of  Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov, at the Farnesina. A joint press conference will be held at the end of the talks. Journalists, photographers and TV crews are requested to apply for accreditation in one of the […]

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Belarus – a documentary and photo exhibition narrates 25 years of diplomatic relations between Italy and Belarus and their past and contemporary cultural relations

The Belarusian National Library opened , on 12 April, in Minsk, the documentary and photo exhibition on the “Past and Contemporary Cultural Relations between Italy and Belarus”. It is an initiative of the Italian Embassy in Minsk, in collaboration with the National Library and the Belarusian State Archives-Museum of Literature and Art. The event looks back […]

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Budapest – Easter Concert with a Baroque wooden pipe organ

The Italian Cultural Institute in Budapest is celebrating Easter with a classical music concert by Maria Grazia Amoruso, accompanied by the Musica Sonora Chamber Orchestra conducted by Maestro Péter Illényi. The works of Joseph Haydn will be played on a special wooden pipe organ, which was traditional in the Baroque era. Built by Giorgio Questa, it is a […]

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Copenhagen – Cinema, history and mystery: Italian Cultural Institute screens a film on Ettore Majorana

“There are some truly extraordinary geniuses, like Galileo and Newton: Majorana is one of them”, said Enrico Fermi about Ettore Majorana, Italy’s greatest twentieth century physicist, the brightest of the ‘Via Panisperna boys’. His disappearence in March 1938, while on a ferry travelling from Palermo to Naples, is one of the biggest Italian mysteries of the last hundred […]

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Moscow – Agreement between Italian and Russian research institutes renewed

The Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare – INFN) and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) have renewed their framework agreement for scientific cooperation. The agreement was signed by INFN President, Fernando Ferroni, and JINR Director, Victor A. Matveev, in the presence of Italian President, Sergio Mattarella. The signing ceremony was attended by Cesare Maria Ragaglini, the Italian Ambassador in […]

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Italian commitment to limiting the proliferation of WMD delivery systems

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano said: “Thirty years ago, on 16 April 1987, the G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, UK, USA) announced the establishment of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) to restrict the proliferation of missiles capable of carrying weapons of mass destruction and relevant technologies. MTCR now […]

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Spain: Fab Linkage kicks off exchange project between Italian and Spanish makers   Madrid hosted the first “The Fab Linkage” business and exchange forum, a project falling under the “ITmakES 2017” initiative. The participants were selected from 9 Italian and Spanish cities (Alicante, Barcelona, Cagliari, Lecce, Madrid, Malaga, Milan, Rome and Valencia) by a Scientific […]

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Minister Alfano in Udine

Speaking to an audience of entrepreneurs from Friuli, in the presence of the chairman of the Udine Chamber of Commerce, Giovanni Da Pozzo, the chairman of Confindustria Udine, Matteo Tono, and the chairman of Confartigianato – Imprese Friuli Venezia Giulia, Graziano Tilatti, Minister Alfano said: “Foreign policy is a strategic tool for supporting the growth […]

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