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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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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