Regeni Case: Secretary General Michele Valensise summons Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt

At the request of Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Michele Valensise, urgently summoned the Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Amr Mostafa Kamal Helmy, this morning to express the Italian Government’s dismay following the death of young Giulio Regeni in Cairo. Mr Valensise stressed that Italy […]

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Paris – Foreign Ministry seeks new director of Paris Italian Institute

The Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) in Paris is looking for a director of the “highest repute”. To this end, it has published a call for applications for a two-year term and renewable just once for an equal period. The new director, according to the call, will represent the Institute, maintain relationships with the cultural […]

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Mexico – Pianist Roberto Prosseda to perform in Mexico

Pianist Roberto Prosseda will perform a concert on Feb. 12 at the Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) in Mexico City. For the occasion, the artist will play works by Felix Mendelssohn, of which he is one of the world’s greatest virtuoso performers, Carlo Boccadoro, Luca Lombardi and Nicola Campogrande. The musician also actively promotes Italian […]

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Toronto – Cinema, selections start for the Italian Contemporary Film Festival

The engines are warming up for the 2016 edition of the Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF): the fifth edition will run from June 9 to 17 and will involve the most important cities of Canada (Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Hamilton and Niagara, Mississauga and Vaughan). Event organisers have opened applications for the submission of short films. […]

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London – Italy’s Chamber of Commerce in UK launches start-ups website

The London-based Italian Chamber of Commerce in the United Kingdom has launched a section on its website devoted to technological innovation. The main goal of the online page consists in promoting Italian high-tech start-ups (founded by Italian expats in the UK), facilitating their development and growth on the British market. The page includes a list […]

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Gentiloni: «Migrants and ISIS, we need more cooperation» (Vita)

Handling immigration at national but especially European level; the political transition in Libya; the conflict in Syria; ISIS. Foreign policy will be at the centre of international debate in the upcoming months. With the appointment of Mario Giro as Deputy Minister to complete the institutional framework, what role can cooperation policies play on each one […]

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Minister Gentiloni expresses grief over the disappearance of Italian Giulio Regeni

The Italian Government has been informed of the tragic fate presumably suffered by Italian student Giulio Regeni in Cairo. While awaiting official confirmation from the Egyptian authorities, Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni expressed his own and the Government’s grief to the student’s family who are presently in Cairo and have been given the unconfirmed news. His […]

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Food safety and security: Gentiloni’s first visit to the World Food Programme

Food security and a “zero-hunger world” are the themes still resonating following upon the efforts of the Italian government to give these issues prominence at the Expo Milan 2015 exhibition. These were also topics on the agenda for the first official visit of Paolo Gentiloni, the Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, to […]

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DEI – Russia: Pizzarotti wins a contract for the hospital complex in Saint Petersburg

The construction company Pizzarotti will be building a modern 504-bed hospital complex, Municipal Hospital no. 40 in the town of Sestroretsk, 40 km north-west of the centre of Saint Petersburg. The Italian group has been awarded the contract through a mixed company (Nevskaya meditsinskaya infrastruktura), of which it owns 71%, while the remaining 29% is […]

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Asuncion – Italian surgeons perform hundreds of free surgeries throughout Paraguay

Three plastic surgeons from the AICEP non-profit organisation, Marco Stabile, Gianluca Alessandro Gatti, and Alessandro Giacomina, were presented to the Paraguayan press by the Italian Embassy for their pro bono work under the “Nemyatyro Paraguay” reconstructive surgery project. Developed by Paraguay’s Health Ministry through the national Burn Centre Unit headed by Paraguayan surgeon of Italian […]

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Lisbon – A journey through time at the IIC: Christian Greco illustrates Turin’s renovated Egyptian Museum

The famed 19th century scholar and Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion, who largely relied on Turin’s collections to decipher hieroglyphs, once wrote: “The road to Memphis and Thebes passes through Turin”. The Egyptian Museum of Turin, the oldest Egyptian museum in the world and second only to Cairo’s in terms of importance, has recently been completely renovated. […]

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Argentina -“Zorba, the Greek” goes back on stage in Argentina in February

Argentina’s “Festival de musica en Plaza Vaticano” in Buenos Aires will present “Zorba the Greek” on Feb. 11. The performance, produced by Naples’ San Carlo Theatre with music by Mikis Theodorakis, is a two-act chorus line ballet with 22 scenes designed by Lorca Massine in 1988. “Zorba the Greek” was inspired by the celebrated novel […]

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