Italian Economic Diplomacy 12 April: world breaking news

Japan: MSC Crociere opens new routes from Okinawa MSC Crociere announced its plans to expand cruise routes to and from Japan. During a promotional event held at the residence of the Italian Ambassador in Tokyo, the company explained that new routes will be launched in 2018, starting in Okinawa and stopping over in the harbours […]

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Humanitarian cooperation

Humanitarian cooperation for the identification of victims of shipwrecks in the Mediterranean is the topic of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Elisabetta Belloni, and the Extraordinary Government Commissioner for Missing Persons, Prefect Vittorio Piscitelli, signed today at the Farnesina.  The MoU defines […]

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The Farnesina and the Special Commissioner of the Italian Government for Missing Persons sign an MoU

Humanitarian cooperation with a view to identifying the victims of shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea was at the centre of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed today by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Elisabetta Belloni, and the Special Commissioner of the Italian Government for Missing Persons, Prefect Vittorio […]

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12-13 April: Minister Alfano in Udine and Istria

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, has been invited by the Unione Italiana, the organization representing the Italian minorities in Croatia and Slovenia, for a mission to Istria on Wednesday 12 April and Thursday 13 April.  Before reaching Umago, Minister Alfano will arrive in Udine on Wednesday at 4:15 p.m. to […]

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Italian Economic Diplomacy 11 April: world breaking news

Intesa San Paolo Bank has officially opened its onshore branch for corporate/wholesale services in Abu Dhabi. As the one and only Italian bank with an onshore branch, Intesa San Paolo can handle local currency operations, although only in the corporate sector. This represents a significant enhancement of the Italian financial presence in the United Arab […]

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Seoul – Bilateral Symposium on Personalized Medicine to take place at The Plaza Hotel

Seoul hosted the Korea-Italy Bilateral Symposium on Personalized Medicine, organised by the Italian Embassy and ICE, the Italian Trade Agency in Seoul. The Symposium was opened by the Deputy-Minister of Health of the Republic of Korea, Dr. Ganglip Kim, and by the Italian Ambassador to Korea, Marco della Seta. Korean and Italian experts in biomedical […]

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United States – Calvino and videogames: fusion in Jonathan Blow’s art

In 1984, Italo Calvino  was invited to hold a series of lectures at Harvard University. Before his death, he completed five of the six Lessons planned on the imaginative possibilities of language and literature. His lessons were collected under the well-known title of “American Lessons: Six Memos for the Next Millennium”, now available with a […]

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G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting

Final Communiqué Declaration on responsible States behaviour in cyberspace Statement on Non Proliferation and Disarmament

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Minister Alfano to Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Kishida: “Italian G7 Presidency. Strong alignment with Tokyo.”

“The Italian G7 Presidency follows that of Japan in a prospect of continuity. Our programme has placed citizens and their needs in terms of social, economic, environmental well-being and security at the centre of the agenda and of the political action of our Presidency,” said the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, […]

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Foreign ​Minister Alfano has telephone call with Iranian colleague Zarif before opening G7 meeting

Today in the early afternoon, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, had a telephone call with his Iranian colleague, Mohammad Javad Zarif, before the G7 ministerial meeting, which opened today at 4:30 p.m.The telephone call was requested by the Iranian minister and focused, above all, on the situation in Syria.Following the […]

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Tosca to be staged at Kiev’s National Opera Theatre until May

The National Opera of Ukraine will be the stage of Tosca, Giacomo Puccini’s famous opera, with performances continuing until May. The initiative, which forms part of a long-standing cooperation between the Italian Embassy in Ukraine, the Italian Cultural Institute in Kiev, the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and the National Opera of Ukraine, celebrates the 60th […]

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Germany – Books, “The Cyclops” by Paolo Rumiz presented in Germany

The Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Munich hosts the presentation of “Il ciclope” (“The Cyclops”) by Paolo Rumiz. The book will be presented by the author at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, 21 April, at the Italian Cultural Institute on Hermann-Schmid-Straße 8. The chat will be moderated by Andrea Bachstein, a journalist at the Süddeutsche Zeitung, one […]

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