Minister Gentiloni: Telephone conversations with Libyan Prime Minister Designate and UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Libya

Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni this morning reiterated to Libyan Prime Minister Designate Fayez Al-Sarraj Italy’s full support for the Presidency Council for Libya’s actions. During the telephone conversation Minister Gentiloni also expressed his solidarity for the incident that involved Mr. Al-Sarraj on Friday. The Prime Minister Designate downplayed the importance of the incident that […]

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Foreign Minister Gentiloni holds telephone conversation on the situation in Libya

Italy’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni, today held telephone conversations with  Algeria’s Minister for Maghreb Affairs, Abdelkader Messahel, Egypt’s Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, Qatar’s Foreign Minister, Khalid Bin Mohammad Al-Attiyah and Turkey’s Foreign Minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu to discuss the situation in Libya. All the ministers voiced their firm condemnation of the […]

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Dei – UN Organize Technology Fair for Peacekeeping Missions

The United Nations Procurement Division is organizing a technology fair to cater to the needs of UN peacekeeping missions. The fair will take place in April 2016 and will be attended by senior officers of peacekeeping missions and technical experts of the United Nations. The companies involved will have the opportunity to give a short […]

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Foreign Minister Gentiloni receives Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich

Italy’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni, met today with the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Arkady Dvorkovich, at the ministry’s headquarters in Rome. The talks focused on bilateral economic relations and trade. “Economic relations between Italy and Russia are still high, especially in energy and road infrastructure, mechanics and […]

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Italy and South Korea sign a new scientific and technological cooperation protocol

The Italian Ambassador in Seoul, Marco della Seta, and the Director-General of the Creative Economy Policy Bureau at South Korea’s Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP), Choi Young-Hae, signed the two countries’ new bilateral scientific and technological cooperation Executive Protocol for 2016–18 in the South Korean capital on 9 December 2015. In addition to […]

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Italy and Poland agree on 10 projects for researcher mobility

Italy and Poland signed the new Executive Programme (EP) of Scientific and Technological Cooperation in Warsaw on 21 December 2015. The EP relaunches and renews Italo-Polish relations for the 2016–18 three-year period, within the framework of the Cultural, Scientific and Technological Cooperation Agreement of 27 November 1960, which came into effect on 31 July 1961. The new EP […]

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Montreal – Design, the modernity of Bruno Munari showcased in Canada

The exhibition “Bruno Munari, Pioneer of Modernity, 1928–1945” will be running in Montreal from March 10 to April 17 and will be partly hosted at Québec University and partly in the Artexte Gallery. The show is organised in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute in Montreal. With works by Bruno Munari (1907-1998), a pioneer of […]

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San Francisco – Italian musicologist to hold four events in January

Four events with musicologist and composer Luciano Chessa will be held between January 21 and 27 in San Francisco. Luciano Chessa is one of the most interesting and creative minds in the world of music in the Bay Area. Currently professor of composition at the San Francisco Conservatory, Chessa works as a composer, musician, musicologist […]

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Malaysia – Italian film features in Malaysia’s European film festival

The 2016 activities of the Italian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur will kick off on January 13 with a screening of the film “La nostra terra” (“Our Land”). The screening is part of the “Cinema in Europe” festival, which is dedicated to European films that shed light, through their stories, on life in the Old World […]

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Toronto – Italian opera from Tosca to Othello on screen in Canadian capital

Italian opera will brighten up the Canadian winter in Toronto with three events at the Alliance Francaise theatre organised by the Italian Cultural Institute. The evenings will be dedicated to some of Italy’s most iconic composers and their works. The programme will begin on Tuesday, January 19 with the screening of the second act of […]

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ACCREDITATION NOTICE FOR EDITORS-IN-CHIEF – Conference on “EU Relations with Latin America: from Social Resilience to Global Governance” (Farnesina, Jan. 15, 2016)

The Conference on “EU Relations with Latin America: from Social Resilience to Global Governance” is scheduled to start  at 9 a.m. on Jan. 15, 2016 at the Italian Foreign Ministry. The Conference is organised by the  Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Institute of International Affairs (IAI) with the contribution of the […]

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Gentiloni: «European asylum to save Schengen» (La Stampa)

Europe is racing to put national barriers back up again. Does that surprise you, Mr Gentiloni? «It is a danger I’ve long been pointing to. We risk sacrificing Schengen on the altar of Dublin. Strict compliance to immigration rules that are outdated by the times is undermining one of Europe’s biggest conquests: freedom of movement». […]

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