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    26 October 2016
    Launch of the ‘First Week of Italian Cuisine in the World’

    Promoting Italy’s culinary tradition abroad as one of the most distinctive features of Brand Italy. This is the aim of the ‘First Week of Italian Cuisine in the World’ initiative which will be presented this morning at Villa Madama. The event intends to provide continuity to the themes successfully developed by Expo Milano 2015 and […]

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    26 October 2016
    Paolo Gentiloni and Maurizio Martina: “A Week in which to promote Made in Italy cuisine” (Il Sole 24 Ore)

    A legacy from Expo Milano 2015 that the Government is bringing forward is the «Food Act» project, which includes the protocol of understanding signed last March to promote Italian high-quality cuisine abroad. Thanks to this, we have created for the first time a team that puts together institutions, companies, chambers of commerce, the world of […]

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    25 October 2016
    Relations between Italy and Japan

    Today and tomorrow Rome will play host to two seminars celebrating the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Italy and Japan. The seminars, to be respectively held at the Chamber of Deputies and at the Luigi Sturzo Institute, will discuss the economic and political issues that bind the two Countries together. The Italian Foreign Ministry […]

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    Press Releases
    25 October 2016
    Lake Chad: Italy allocates 6.3 million euros for emergency actions in favour of Boko Haram victims

    Italy has allocated 6.3 million euros for emergency actions in the four countries of the Lake Chad Basin, namely Nigeria, Cameroun, Chad and Niger, which are facing the consequences of Boko Haram’s radical and extremist violence. The actions will be carried out by Italian civil society organisations and other non-profit stakeholders working in the four Countries.  Actions […]

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    25 October 2016
    Italy and Kenya renew the “Luigi Broglio” Space Centre Agreement (Trento, 24 October 2016)

    Fabrizio Nicoletti, the head of the Unit for Scientific and Technological Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), commented the renewal of the agreement between Italy and Kenya for Malindi’s “Luigi Broglio” Space Centre. He said: “Supporting our points of excellence in the aerospace sector – at bilateral and multilateral level […]

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    25 October 2016
    Serbia – “Concerts in Galleria” at the Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade

    The Italian Cultural Institute (IIC), in partnership with the KCB, the Cultural Centre of Belgrade, will host ‘Concerts in Galleria’, a series of concerts scheduled every Monday. A notice posted on the IIC website reads: “Thanks to this cooperation with the KCB, a relevant cultural institution in the city, the Institute confirms to be a […]

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    25 October 2016
    Sudan – Course on Peacekeeping and conflict management winds up in Khartoum

    A course on the Italian experience in peacekeeping has just wound up in Khartoum. The first course on “Training Programme for Conflict Management” was closed at the presence of the director of the Peace Research Institute of the University of Khartoum, the Italian Ambassador to Sudan and the coordinator of the international activities of the […]

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    25 October 2016
    Turkey – Vinicio Capossela celebrates his 25-year career in Istanbul

    Vinicio Capossela, Italian artist, singer and entertainer, will stage his “Qu’Art de Siecle” show to the Teatro della Casa d’Italia in Istanbul on October 28. The event, promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Istanbul, will celebrate his 25 year-long career dedicated to music. It began in 1990 with his debut album “All’una e […]

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    24 October 2016
    China – Fashion speaks Italian to celebrate Italian Language Week

    “Fashion speaks Italian” and is inspired by art: this is the theme of the fashion show the students from Beijing’s Fashion School, hosted by the Italian Culture Institute, have organised within the framework of the events for the Italian Culture and Language Week in China. The work of over 30 designers-to-be, led by Professor Yanh […]

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    24 October 2016
    Finland – Modigliani’s retrospective in Helsinki features 200 masterpieces

    Helsinki’s Ateneum Art Museum will host an extensive retrospective of Amedeo Modigliani’s works starting from 28 October until 5 February, 2017. An installation of almost 200 masterpieces of the famous Italian painter and sculptor will be shown on the Museum’s third floor. This is Modigliani’s largest exhibition ever launched in a Scandinavian country. Modigliani, who […]

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