USA – A “Cover Revolution!” hits the publishing world

A revolution is underway across Italian bookshops: in recent years, a wind of change has swept across the shelves where historical fiction collections used to be displayed. Many publishing houses asked a group of world-renowned Italian illustrators with a very original style to reinvent book covers. The Italian Cultural Institute in New York organised the […]

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Innovation Week opens in Trieste

The Macro-Regional Innovation Week (26-30 September), organized by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and Trieste’ AREA Science Park, will look at  the Danube, Adriatic-Ionian and Alpine macroregions.  Over 70 speakers and 250 participants, of which 80 are young people from the Western Balkans, will participate in different seminars and workshops during the Week. They will contribute […]

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Farnesina hosts debate on the challenges to European security

On 29 and 30 September the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) is hosting the 9th “Transatlantic Security Symposium” dedicated to “Europe’s Security Governance and Transatlantic Relations”, organised by the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) with the support of the MAECI, the Public Diplomacy Division of NATO, the United States Embassy, the Compagnia di […]

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India: today Undersecretary of State Della Vedova received the Indian Minister of Food Processing Industries Badal at the Farnesina

Today at the Farnesina Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs Benedetto Della Vedova received India’s Minister of Food Processing Industries, Ms Harsimrat Kaur Badal. The meeting aimed to ratify, the Undersecretary said, “the relaunching of economic, trade and industrial cooperation between the two Countries” following the meeting of 4 September with Indian Foreign Minister, Sushma […]

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ACCREDITATION NOTICE – Presentation of ANCE Report 2016 (Farnesina, 4 October)

On Tuesday, 4 October, at 10:30 a.m., the International Conference Hall at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation will host the presentation of the ANCE Report 2016  on the presence of Italian construction companies in the world. The event, which is organised by the Foreign Ministry in partnership with ANCE – National Association […]

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Italian Marine Latorre to stay in Italy until the end of the arbitral proceedings

Italian Marine Massimiliano Latorre will remain in Italy. The Foreign Ministry welcomes with great satisfaction the Indian Supreme Court’s decision released today extending Latorre’s right to remain in Italy until the end of the arbitral proceedings, as requested by Italy. With this provision, the Court extended to Latorre the decision issued last 29 April by […]

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Japan – Italy-Japan: “Fascination” of Italy” exhibition and conference in Kyoto

“The Fascination of Italy: Perceptions and Images of Contemporary Japan” is the title of the conference scheduled for 1 October in Kyoto to wind up this year’s numerous celebrations for the 150th anniversary of Italian-Japanese relations. The meeting – sponsored by the Italian Embassy in Japan and organised by the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, the […]

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Denmark – Grazie Gloria 2 inaugurated in Copenhagen

The “Grazie Gloria” Italian Film Festival in Copenhagen opened its second edition on 20 September 2016. The festival opened with the screening of “Io che amo solo te”, a film directed by Marco Ponti and based on the novel by Luca Bianchini, which was all sold out. “Grazie Gloria” is an initiative co-sponsored by the […]

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France – Leonardo exhibition opened in Paris

The exhibition «Leonardo in France. The Master and his Pupils 500 years after crossing the Alps. 1516-2016» was opened on 21 September at the Italian Embassy in Paris at the presence of the Italian Minister for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, Dario Franceschini, and of the French Minister of Culture and Communications, Audrey Azoulay. The […]

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United State – Annual Conference of the Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation (ISSNAF)

The Italian Embassy in Washington will host the annual conference of the Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation (ISSNAF) on 17 and 18 October. The occasion will offer the members of Italy’s scientific community an opportunity to meet with representatives of institutions, the industry and the academic world and to discuss innovative ideas […]

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Nuclear Research: Della Vedova attends 60th AIEA General Conference

Today the Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Benedetto Della Vedova, attended the 60th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) dedicated to “Atoms for Peace and Development”. Senator Della Vedova expressed Italy’s full support for the Agency’s activity aimed at enhancing the capacity of all Countries to put nuclear technology to a […]

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Italian Economic Diplomacy – Latest news from the world

  Oman and Iran review joint gas pipeline project in the Strait of Hormuz The Sultanate of Oman and Iran have agreed to review the project design of the gas pipeline in the Strait of Hormuz. The revised layout of the underwater pipeline is shorter but deeper, at a depth of 1000 metres instead of […]

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