Brussels – Italian car show attracts 40,000 visitors in Brussels

The Italian car industry has been on show in Brussels at “Italia Car Passion” which has attracted 40,000 visitors. The “Autoworld” exhibition, displayed for two months in Brussels city-centre the excellence of the Italian industry with the most beautiful cars designed and manufactured in Italy,  especially from the 1950s and 1960s. They came from private […]

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Italy and Oman – United by music in Muscat

Italy and Oman have been united by music. A concert called “The Sounds of Italy and Oman – Harmonies across the Seas” will be held on Monday at the auditorium of the Bait al Zubair Museum in Muscat. The concert, promoted by the Italian Embassy in Oman, will be attended by the under-secretary of the […]

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Dei – German Government Endorses New National Port Concept

The German Federal Government approved the ”Hafenkonzept 2015″, a strategic plan to enhance the country’s port development policy. The project will extend over a period of 10 years and sets out 155 measures to be implemented for the development of German seaports and inland ports. The main goals are to expand port-related infrastructure and remove […]

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Regeni Case: Secretary General Michele Valensise summons Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt

At the request of Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Michele Valensise, urgently summoned the Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Amr Mostafa Kamal Helmy, this morning to express the Italian Government’s dismay following the death of young Giulio Regeni in Cairo. Mr Valensise stressed that Italy […]

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Paris – Foreign Ministry seeks new director of Paris Italian Institute

The Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) in Paris is looking for a director of the “highest repute”. To this end, it has published a call for applications for a two-year term and renewable just once for an equal period. The new director, according to the call, will represent the Institute, maintain relationships with the cultural […]

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Mexico – Pianist Roberto Prosseda to perform in Mexico

Pianist Roberto Prosseda will perform a concert on Feb. 12 at the Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) in Mexico City. For the occasion, the artist will play works by Felix Mendelssohn, of which he is one of the world’s greatest virtuoso performers, Carlo Boccadoro, Luca Lombardi and Nicola Campogrande. The musician also actively promotes Italian […]

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Toronto – Cinema, selections start for the Italian Contemporary Film Festival

The engines are warming up for the 2016 edition of the Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF): the fifth edition will run from June 9 to 17 and will involve the most important cities of Canada (Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Hamilton and Niagara, Mississauga and Vaughan). Event organisers have opened applications for the submission of short films. […]

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London – Italy’s Chamber of Commerce in UK launches start-ups website

The London-based Italian Chamber of Commerce in the United Kingdom has launched a section on its website devoted to technological innovation. The main goal of the online page consists in promoting Italian high-tech start-ups (founded by Italian expats in the UK), facilitating their development and growth on the British market. The page includes a list […]

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Gentiloni: «Migrants and ISIS, we need more cooperation» (Vita)

Handling immigration at national but especially European level; the political transition in Libya; the conflict in Syria; ISIS. Foreign policy will be at the centre of international debate in the upcoming months. With the appointment of Mario Giro as Deputy Minister to complete the institutional framework, what role can cooperation policies play on each one […]

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Minister Gentiloni expresses grief over the disappearance of Italian Giulio Regeni

The Italian Government has been informed of the tragic fate presumably suffered by Italian student Giulio Regeni in Cairo. While awaiting official confirmation from the Egyptian authorities, Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni expressed his own and the Government’s grief to the student’s family who are presently in Cairo and have been given the unconfirmed news. His […]

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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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