Cartoline dall’altra Italia: puts the focus back on emigration

The news agency “9colonne” puts the focus back on emigration with the second edition of the web series “Cartoline dall’altra Italia” (“Postcards from the other Italy”), produced with the support of the Directorate General for Migration Policies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The series will comprise video interviews profiling the identity […]

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Libya: Italian support to al Serraj’s Government of National Accord in its fight against terrorism

 Italy supports the Libyan Government of National Accord led by Prime Minister Fayez al Serra. Since its formation, Italy has encouraged the government to undertake the necessary actions to bring stability and peace back to the Libyan people.Italy values the efforts undertaken by the Government of National Accord and by the forces loyal to it […]

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Tehran – World Youth Orchestra. The “Sounds for Iran” Project

The second phase of the “World Youth Orchestra –  Sounds for Iran” project, involving musicians from Italy, Iran and other Countries, will kick off in Tehran on 2 August. The first phase of the Project took place in June in Italy with a musical laboratory set up for young Iranian musicians.   Project activities will top […]

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CIDU opens a public online consultation on the National Action Plan on Businesses and Human Rights

The Inter-Ministerial Committee for Human Rights (CIDU) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has recently published on its Website –  www.cidu.esteri.it – the preliminary National Action Plan on Businesses and Human Rights. The Plan is the outcome of a broad consultation campaign promoted by CIDU among institutional bodies, business representatives, civil society organizations, trade […]

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Minister Gentiloni received at the Farnesina the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi

This morning the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni, received at the Farnesina Nancy Pelosi, the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, who was leading a delegation of members of the House of Representatives. In addition to the fight against Daesh, the talks focused on the stabilization perspectives of […]

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Locarno – International Art Film Festival kicks off in Switzerland

Through its 69-year-long history the Locarno International Film Festival (3-13 August) has conquered a unique place among the world’s major film festivals. Every year the Swiss-Italian town of Locarno becomes the highlight of arthouse films: art film lovers and professionals all meet there to share their passion for the cinema, in all its expressions. For […]

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Portugal – “Quasi tutto”, anthology of Giorgio Griffa in Porto

‎Italian painter Giorgio Griffa’s artworks are on display in Portugal for the first time in Porto’s Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves. The anthology, entitled “Quasi tutto” (Almost everything), was organised by the museum in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon. The exhibition consists of a vast selection of more than 40 paintings […]

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Athens – The Italian Embassy hosts the Garden of Sculptures

The Italian Embassy in Athens is hosting the exhibition “Forme, Colori, Materiali: il Giardino delle Sculture” (Forms, Colours, Materials: The Garden of Sculptures) until September 15. The exhibition displays the work of a group of students from Athens’ Academy of Fine Arts. It will be open to the public on Thursdays. The initiative aims to […]

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Syria: Farnesina expresses concern over the situation in Eastern Aleppo

The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation expresses concern over the situation in Eastern Aleppo, which is presently under siege and systematically bombed by regime forces that spare nothing and nobody on their way. Air strikes continue to hit hospitals, schools and markets causing a very high number of casualties among civilians.   […]

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Italy, the United States and innovation. The Foreign Ministry participates in the Innovation Forum – Driving changes for US an Italian Innovation Systems: finding better ways to learn from each other, Trieste, 28 July 2016

Juxtaposing the economic and industrial scenario in the U.S. with the one of Friuli Venezia Giulia, which features dynamic and innovative SMEs, with a view to relaunching scientific, technological and industrial cooperation across the Atlantic. This is the central theme of the Innovation Forum – Driving changes for US and Italian Innovation Systems: finding better […]

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Minister Paolo Gentiloni meets with the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea, Yun Byung-Se. Korea will open a Cultural Institute in Italy next October​

This morning at Villa Madama, Paolo Gentiloni, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, received YUN Byung-se, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea. Mr Gentiloni and Mr YUN Byung-se took stock of the excellence of the current bilateral relations between Italy and the Republic of Kore in every sector of […]

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Dublin – The “Aquileia: the Crossroads of the Empire” exhibition stops in Ireland

Aquileia was founded in 181 BC in the North-East of the Italian Peninsula and was vested with military, economic and commercial functions. Its excellent location, a well-equipped river port and commercial and cultural relations with both the eastern Mediterranean and Northern Europe, turned it into Italy’s fourth-largest and most important city and in the ninth-largest […]

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