Foreign Ministry: latest news on the terrorist attack in Burkina Faso

Following the terrorist attack in the capital of Burkina Faso, the Italian Foreign Ministry immediately started investigating on the condition of approximately 100 Italian nationals who were reported to be in the capital, in order to verify their state of health and offer them assistance. The information collected made it possible to confirm that the […]

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Gentiloni: «EU is raising a useless controversy. Flexibility? It’s all our doing» (Corriere della Sera)

«Europe is experiencing one of its most difficult periods since the ‘60s.  It does not need Brussels to engage in useless controversies. Italy is not raising controversy but it obeys E.U. rules and demands to be respected,” Minister Gentiloni said in reply to the unprecedented words of criticism addressed by the President of the EU […]

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Italy – Oman: Meetings of Secretary General Valensise in Muscat

Prospects of cooperation between Italy and Oman were the focus of a consultation meeting between officials of the two countries in Muscat. The Italian delegation, led by Secretary-General of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Michele Valensise, and the Omani delegation, led by Secretary General of the Omani Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sayyid Badr bin […]

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The Italian Foreign Ministry hosts the conference entitled “EU Relations with Latin America: from Social Resilience to Global Governance”

Europe takes stock of its relations with Latin America and chooses Italy as the venue for the meeting. The Italian Foreign Ministry today hosts the conference entitled “EU Relations with Latin America: from Social Resilience to Global Governance”, organised by the Foreign Ministry and the Institute for International Affairs (IAI), with the contribution of the […]

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Geneva – Anpi and Comites: tribute to Pertini with the screening of “I’ll miss you”

Sandro Pertini, the partisan and President of the Italian Republic, was a model of honesty and coherency, freedom and democracy, to whom Vittorio Giacci has dedicated a documentary-film entitled “I’ll miss you – Memories of Sandro Pertini”. Co-produced by ACT Multimedia and the national “Sandro Pertini” association, under the High Patronage of the President of […]

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Haifa – A world without us by Manuela Dviri at Italian Institute

The second event held at the Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa is the presentation of Manuela Dviri’s book, “A world without us”, by Miriam Levi Liuzzi on January 20, for Remembrance Day 2016. Manuela Dviri is a daughter gradually piecing together a vast family puzzle; she is a mother who loses her beloved 20-year-old son […]

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Italy and United States Renew Scientific Cooperation Agreement – 2016-2017 Two-Year Joint Declaration Signed

With research areas including nanotechnology, agrifood, robotics, ICT, and life sciences, scientific cooperation between Italy and the United States was strengthened and bolstered when the 2016-2017 Joint Declaration on Scientific and Technological Cooperation was signed today at the Foreign Ministry headquarters. In the afternoon, experts from the two countries will discuss basic research and innovation […]

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Italy-Japan – 150 years of bilateral relations

With the opening of the two exhibitions “Botticelli and His Time” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum and “Leonardo Da Vinci: Beyond the Visible” at the Edo Tokyo Museum, the schedule of events organised to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the start of diplomatic relations between Italy and Japan begins tomorrow. A full programme that ranges […]

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Cartagena – Italy starts at international Music Festival

The 10th edition of the Cartagena International Music Festival is in full swing, featuring a number of Italian performers. These include soloists from the Concerto Italiano, conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini and the jazz guitarist and composer Alberto Capelli. The Fundacion Salvi and the Italian Cultural Institute in Bogota organised the festival and the participation of […]

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Italy and China discuss cooperation

Relations between Italy and China are becoming, “increasingly ambitious and increasingly concrete.” This in a nutshell is how Italian Ambassador to Beijing Ettore Sequi and Liu Haixing, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, with responsibility for Europe, agreed to define the status of the relations between the two countries at […]

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New York – Robert Gallo receives Leonardo da Vinci Prize

The Italian Heritage and Culture Committee (IHCC) has conferred the 2015 Leonardo da Vinci Award on Robert Gallo, an Italo-American and an internationally renowned researcher in the field of immunology. The Director of the Institute of Human Virology and Professor of Medicine at the Maryland School of Medicine, Dr Gallo played a key role in […]

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Foreign Ministry Pledges 1.4 million euros for Emergency Humanitarian Aid in Libya

Italian Development Cooperation Department has planned a 1.4 million euro humanitarian aid package for Libya to support primary emergency interventions by international organisations operating in the Country. The package will focus on activities to protect the more vulnerable communities and prevent irregular migration along the Mediterranean route, as well as on the provision of healthcare […]

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