Cape Town – Fiera Milano organises the Art Fair

Once again Fiera Milano, through its South African branch Exhibitions Africa, is organising the Cape Town Art Fair to be held from 19 to 21 February 2016 in the country’s cultural and commercial heart. Director of Fiera Milano Africa for the event Matthew Partridge pointed out that “Contemporary African art was on everyone’s lips at […]

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Brazil- Sao Paulo focus on “Citizens of the World”

“Cittadini del mondo, globetrotters o migranti nostalgici su false spoglie?” is the title of an encounter to be held on 3 December at the Italian Cultural Institute of Sao Paulo. The event has been curated by psychologist Melania Bonello, and intends to provide room for reflection on the theme of emigration, analysing the various migratory […]

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Libya – Gentiloni-Kerry bilateral

Italy and the United States have pledged to work together intensively over the coming weeks in an effort to garner the international community’s fullest support for the formation of a government of national unity in Libya. The announcement came from Minister Paolo Gentiloni following a bilateral meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in […]

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Under-Secretary Della Vedova Memorandum of Understanding on OECD Centre for Local Development

Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Benedetto Della Vedova joined Deputy Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Stefan Kapferer in signing a memorandum of understanding on the OECD Centre for Local Development located in the city of Trento. The memorandum gives the Centre a new mandate for 2016-2020 and establishes an office in […]

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Brazil: Government announces major plan for transport sector permits

The governor of the State of Sao Paulo, Gerardo Alckmin, announced a major concessions plan for the State’s transport and mobility sector valued at more than 3 billion euro, naming the following priority sectors: airports, inter-urban bus lines, motorways and metro lines. The five airport concessions concerned include: Antonio Ribeiro Noronha Jr. (Itanhaem), Gasto Madeira […]

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Under-Secretary Giro: democracy strengthened in Burkina Faso

Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Mario Giro hailed the proper conduction of elections in Burkina Faso, from which Kaboré emerged the winner. “After 27 years, Burkina Faso has achieved great results in terms of voter turnout. Democracy comes out of this stronger”, Giro commented. “My best wishes go out to President Kaboré for […]

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ACCREDITATION NOTICE Press presentation of the conference MED 2015 – Mediterranean Dialogues (Farnesina, 4 December 2015)

At 11:00 on Friday 4 December, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni and Executive Vice President and Director of the Institute of International Policy Studies (ISPI) Paolo Magri will make a press presentation of the MED 2015 – Mediterranean Dialogues Conference to be sponsored by the foreign ministry and ISPI at the […]

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Italy-Mexico – Striving for more cooperation

Italy and Mexico are working together to strengthen bilateral cooperation on various fronts. To that end, our ambassador in Mexico City, Alessandro Busacca, was recently received by the president of the Mexican Senate Roberto Gil Zuarth for a meeting on principal bilateral concerns and the reinforcement of the two countries’ strategic collaboration. The ambassador also […]

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Ottawa – Italian ambassador to Canada visits FCA plant

Italian ambassador to Canada Gian Lorenzo Cornado made a visit to the FCA assembly plant in Windsor, Canada, where he was received by FCA Canada president Lori Shalhoub and plant director Michael Brieda. Cornado praised the FCA’s extraordinary success in the crucial automotive sector not only within the Canadian and North American framework but also […]

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Ecuador – Two FIE-funded projects completed

A delegation from the Embassy of Italy in Ecuador, the Italo-Ecuadorian Fund (FIE) and the Chancery of that Latin American country visited the Province of Carchi, an area at the border of Colombia where the FIE has funded a seriesof initiatives. The area has been afflicted for years by chronic instability as a result of […]

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Cartoline dall’altra Italia – The “spatial” brain that made it in Russia

His is not a question of a brain on the run but of one on the road: a professional track that led him to Russia by way of the United States. After completing a doctorate in aeronautics and astronautics at MIT in Boston, in 2012 thirty-year-old Romanian born Alessandro Golkar moved to Moscow to become […]

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Farnesina and Guardia di Finanza: collaboration with foreign diplomatic network

The synergy between the Farnesina and the Guardia di Finanza (Customs Police) abroad was the focus of a plenary meeting of the experts in service abroad that opened today at the headquarters of the General Command of the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affiars Michele Valensise on the invitation of GdF General Commander […]

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