Italian Marines: The Hague Court of Arbitration’s rules on Girone’s return to Italy

With reference to what has been reported by the news agency ANSA, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation announces that the Court of Arbitration based in The Hague anticipated its decision on Monday that the Italian Navy marine, Salvatore Girone, will return to Italy until the arbitration process, that began in June […]

Read more

Beirut – Food security and a cooperation project

The FAO office in Lebanon with Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture has launched a project funded by the Italian Agency for Development  Cooperation. “Enhance the Livelihood and Food Security of Vulnerable Lebanese Women through Improving their Dairy Production Practices and Supporting their Dairy Processing Activities” proposes a number of ways to organise the dairy sector in […]

Read more

Caracas – Photographer Pier Alberto Cucino and his views of Verona

Pier Alberto Cucino’s photographic exhibition, “Visioni Veronesi” is on show in Caracas. Cucino is the director of the Italian Trade Agency office in Caracas, but he is also a photographer. The exhibition opened at the MAC hall of the Italian Institute of Culture in Caracas in the Altamira area on 11 April and runs until […]

Read more

Buenos Aires – Art, creativity, roots – the 5th “Lucio Fontana” award

Art, creativity and roots. The Consulate General of Buenos Aires in collaboration with Pirelli Neumaticos S.A.I.C. has launched the 5th “Lucio Fontana” Award. Only emerging Italian artists living in Argentina are eligible to enter. Winners will stay in Italy during October and November to develop their creative skills by contact with the Italian cultural and […]

Read more

“Diplomazia e dintorni” – American diplomats in Rome

The 59th episode of the “Diplomazia e dintorni” programme will be broadcast on Tuesday, May 3, at 8 p.m. by Radio LUISS, under the title “American diplomats in Rome”. It will continue the debate focussing on what it means to be a foreign diplomat – especially a U.S. diplomat- in the capital of Italy. Italy […]

Read more

Brussels – Stolen marble head of Augustus returns to Italy

A marble head of the Emperor Octavian Augustus, stolen in Nepi in the 1970s, which ended up being exhibited in good faith at the Cinquantenaire Museum in Brussels, is on its way back to Italy. As soon as its illicit origin was ascertained, the museum immediately decided to return it to Italy. The marble head, […]

Read more

ACCREDITATION NOTICE – World Humanitarian Summit (Istanbul, May 23-24 2016)

The WORLD HUMANITARIAN SUMMIT will be held in Istanbul on May 23 and 24 2016 and will be attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni. Press representatives who wish to cover the event can obtain accreditation by applying via the website at http://www.un.org/en/media/accreditation/WHS.shtml by May 13 2016.

Read more

Moscow – “Italy Meets Caucasus” business mission returns in May

The latest annual “Italy Meets Caucasus” business mission to the Caucusus will be held in May. It is organised by the Italian Embassy in Moscow, the ICE Agency, the Honorary Consulate General of Italy in Krasnodar and the Italo-Russian Chamber of Commerce. It aims to present opportunities for investment by Italian companies in the Federal […]

Read more

São Paulo – Saint Cecilia Orchestra returns

The Orchestra of the National Academy of Saint Cecilia is visiting Latin America. After travelling around Europe in recent years and stopping off in China and Japan, the orchestra directed by Antonio Pappano, has arrived in the continent. The first stop will be on May 7 and 8 in São Paulo, followed by Buenos Aires. […]

Read more

Prague – Final of the best Italian sommelier competition

The final of the “Best Italian Sommelier” competition will be in Prague this year, and will be hosted by the local Italian Institute of Culture in its historic offices in the Mala Strana district. Giuseppe Vaccarini, Chairman of ASPI – the Italian association of professional sommeliers, announced the event when he arrived in the Czech […]

Read more

Athens – Dyptichum exhibition arrives in Italy after a tour of the Mediterranean

The “Dyptichum, Mediterranean glimpses of Italy: images and poems” has arrived in Italy after stopping off in several Mediterranean cities. The exhibition, which opened at the Italian Institute of Culture in Athens in January 2015, is split into two sections “Journey in a timeless Italy” and “Doors and windows of Italy”, with images by Zosi […]

Read more

Minister Gentiloni is following progress in the negotiation process with great interest. Concern about humanitarian conditions. Full support for Special Envoy de Mistura

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni, is closely following the negotiations in Geneva between the Syrian Government and the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), aimed at achieving an inclusive and credible political solution to the Syrian conflict. He welcomed the Mediator’s Summary presented by UN Envoy Staffan de Mistura at the end of […]

Read more