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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Bucharest – Roma Tre University presents Romania travel guide

The Roma Tre University presented the first volume of the e-book series entitled “Invitation to Travel” dedicated to Romania in the Auditorium of the University of Bucharest Central Library on Tuesday. The presentation, organised by the Italian Embassy in partnership with the Infoeuropa Centre of the Romanian Foreign Ministry, was attended by a large number […]

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Gentiloni: «Global challenge to terrorism» (L’Unità)

To “overhaul” the international anti-Daesh strategy and evaluate the new challenges posed by terrorism. This was the agenda of the Small Group Ministerial Meeting of the Coalition to counter Daesh, which gave rise to three political messages that are due to guide future actions. The first concerns the results achieved up to now. The anti-Daesh […]

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Statement by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Small Group of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL/Da’esh

1. Foreign Ministers of the Small Group of the Global Coalition to counter ISIL/Da’esh met today in Rome at the invitation of Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni to take stock of the Coalition’s work and to accelerate our unified efforts to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL/Da’esh, dismantle its networks, and counter its global ambitions. The […]

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Anti-Daesh Summit at the Foreign Ministry – “We have made progress but the threat persists”

In the fight against Daesh, we have made “important progress, but we are facing a very resilient organisation and we must therefore not underestimate it,” said Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, in his opening remarks to the third Ministerial Meeting of the Small Group of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, convened today at the Foreign […]

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Barcelona – Music, Francesco Guccini celebrated at the Artesà Tradicionarius Centre

Just for an evening, put four exceptional characters to talk around a table, like the singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini; Carlo Petrini, the agnostic whom Pope Francis asked to prepare the preface for the “Laudato si’” encyclical, founder of Slow Food, Terra Madre, the University of Food Sciences of Pollenzo, the Turin Salone del Gusto; Sergio Staino, […]

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Brussels – Posters and drawings, the creativity of Scarabottolo and Sdralevich at the Italian Cultural Institute

Those who mention the names of Guido Scarabottolo and Teresa Sdralevich are talking about two masters of graphics and illustration. They are ready to compare their creative worlds in an exhibition set to open on Thursday February 4 at 7pm at the Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels (38 Rue de Livourne). Organised by the Italian […]

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Moscow – Kirov region offers opportunities for Italy

Russia’s Kirov region is promoting itself as a possible trading, economic and cultural partner of Italy. The opportunities offered by this region in the Volga district were discussed on Monday at a meeting at the offices of the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade (ICE) between the Italian Ambassador in Moscow, Cesare Maria Ragaglini, and the […]

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