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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Dei – Canada: BC Hydro chooses Peace River Hydro Partners for dam project

BC Hydro, Canada’s state-run energy monopoly in British Columbia, selected the Peace River Hydro Partners consortium as its preferred proponent for the main contract for the construction of the “Site C” system of hydroelectric dams. The project is valued at an overall 6 billion euro and once installed will have a capacity of 1100 MW. […]

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Gentiloni: increase diplomatic commitment on behalf of accord in Libya

“We must increase our diplomatic commitment on behalf of accord amongst the parties in Libya”. This was the message Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni sent out to his various colleagues and other members of the audience, including UN Special Envoy for Libya Martin Kobler and Algerian Minister for Maghreb Affairs Abdelkader […]

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COOPERATION: Syrian Crisis, Contribution to Unicef for educational projects in Jordan

The Italian Development Cooperation has approved a 760,000-EUR voluntary emergency contribution to Unicef for educational projects in Jordan within the framework of the No Lost Generation Initiative created on behalf of children affected by the Syrian crisis and, in particular, in support of the Unicef project. The contribution is earmarked for the project entitled All […]

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Minister Gentiloni receives new UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi

Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni met at the Farnesina today with UN High Commissioner for Refugees appointee Filippo Grandi. Their meeting offered an opportunity for an exchange of views on migration and on the contribution Italy could make to its management through increasingly close collaboration with the UNHCR. “Grandi’s appointment is […]

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