Serbia: Institutional meetings in Belgrade of Vincenzo Amendola, Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs

Vincenzo Amendola, Italian Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, met with Serbian Prime Minister, Aleksandar Vucic, along with the Speaker of the House Maja Gojkovic and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ivica Dacic, to discuss a wide range of issues that included ​economic growth, control of migration flows and security. “This visit is the first of […]

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Energy Technology Perspectives 2016 – Presented at the Italian Foreign Ministry during an event organized with ENEA and Ministry for Economic Development

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation hosted an event promoted by the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development -ENEA and the Ministry of Economic Development for the presentation of the International Energy Agency’s report: ETP 2016 – TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE URBAN ENERGY SYSTEMS. ETP 2016 is based on the consideration […]

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Minister Gentiloni’s visit to Dublin – Brexit, the migration emergency in the Mediterranean and the main international crises among the topics of the talks between Foreign Ministers Gentiloni and Flanagan

The visit to Dublin by Minister Gentiloni, the first visit by an Italian Foreign Minister to Ireland since 1995, will enable the resumption of the political dialogue with a European partner with which Italy holds excellent bilateral relations. The meeting with Foreign Minister Flanagan  focused on the result of the British referendum and on how […]

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Sydney – “Il Signor Bruschino”, third episode of the “Viva Rossini” series

The “Viva Rossini!” series is now at its third edition. It is fruit of the cooperation between the Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney and the Rossini Opera Festival of Pesaro, which the capital of the Marche Region will host from 8 to 20 August this year. Since 1980, the Rossini Opera Festival has been increasingly […]

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Tel Aviv – Three young Italian writers tell the story of modern-day Israel

Three young Italian writers will be at the Italian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv on 21 July to present their works which narrate the story of modern-day Israel. The Literary Aperikucha will feature the young writers: Gabriele Barbati and his “Trappola Gaza. Nel fuoco incrociato tra Israele e Palestina”; Fiammetta Martegani with “Life on Mars”; […]

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Italy-US, Italian California Dreaming show in Los Angeles

“Italian California Dreaming”, an exhibition displaying drawings, photographs, paintings and sculptures, will be on show at the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Los Angeles from tomorrow until 30 September 2016. The exhibition is organised by the IIC and the Biennale of Contemporary Art of Anagni and Frosinone, in partnership with Peter Frank, art critic and […]

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Indonesia – Andrea Ponsi’s watercolors on show in Jakarta

Andrea Ponsi, a Tuscan architect, designer and painter, is about to go on show in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 21 July. The Italian Cultural Institute in Jakarta will host “Florence – A Map of Perceptions”, an exhibition of the Tuscan artist’s watercolors. Essential and yet deeply evocative, his watercolors portray landscapes and architectural landmarks of Florence […]

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Mission to Belgrade of Vincenzo Amendola, Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs ​

Italy takes the lead in the Balkans’ EU integration process. But also security, migration emergency, intra-regional and bilateral cooperation. These are the issues on the agenda for the mission to Belgrade of Vincenzo Amendola, Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Today he chaired the meeting with the Italian Ambassadors to the Countries of the Adriatic-Balkan area while tomorrow he […]

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Another humanitarian aid shipment from Italy to Libya

A shipment of medicines and hospital supplies arrived today at the Libyan port of Misrata, to assure basic medical care to 10,000 people for three months and specific treatment to people wounded in the war. The initiative, carried out in cooperation with the UN Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Brindisi, met the request for emergency aid made by the Authorities of Libya’s Government […]

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Scientific Cooperation – Rome ​Sapienza University and the Politecnico di Milano sign new agreements with Jiao Tong University of Shanghai

A Chinese delegation from the prestigious Shanghai Jiao Tong University was in Italy on an official visit to establish academic cooperation agreements with the Sapienza University of Rome and the Politecnico di Milano.  The Chinese delegation, accompanied by Andrea Matta, Professor at the Politecnico and at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and President of the Sanhedrin of Italian […]

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Tunis, the Italian Embassy opens “Garden of the Righteous”

The Italian Embassy in Tunis will open a very special “Garden of the Righteous” on 15 July. At the presence of the authorities of the two Countries, a tree will be planted in the memory of Faraaz Hussein, the young man who could have saved his life during the Dhaka terrorist attack but decided not […]

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London – Italian Embassy presents Aquafil, an Italian success story

Giulio Bonazzi, CEO and Chairman of Aquafil Group, a leading Italian company manufacturing yarns for the textile industry, said that “Italy has a wealth of human capital and capacities and skills. It is a country where companies can grow and projects for today and tomorrow can be developed. “Mr Bonazzi made his statement in a […]

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