Italian Economic Diplomacy – Latest World News – 21 October 2015

The Cooprogetti group was awarded the contract by Empresa Nacional de Electricidad Bolivia (ENDE) for the design of a biomass energy production plant for the the Dipartimento Beni. The 420,000 USD contract is the third assigned to the Italian firm operating in Bolivia, after a 1.62 million USD contract in July through the Administradora Boliviana […]

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Gaiani new Director General for Global Affairs

Massimo Gaiani is the Director General for Global Issues and for Asia, Sub Saharian Africa, Latin America at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation as of 20 October 2015. He previously served as Ambassador of Italy to Albania (since December 2011). He entered the diplomatic service in 1982. Since then, he has […]

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Gentiloni: Conversation with Netanyahu, call for de-escalation

This morning the Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni held a phone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Minister expressed Italy’s concern over the recent rise in episodes of violence, particularly in Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. Gentiloni renewed the call for all the parties to contribute to a […]

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Ankara – Conferences, poetry and concerts: Turkey celebrates the Italian language

Turkey has a full calendar of events planned for the 15th edition of Italian Language in the World Week, whose theme this year is the relationship between the Italian language and music. The events, which include conferences, poetry recitals and musical performances, have been organised by the Embassy of Italy in Ankara with the High […]

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Berlin – “Depicting a city”, Staino on the German capital

Sia Saino is one of Italy’s best known and loved satiric artists, whose most famous character – Bobo – has been known to the Italian public since the early 1970s as the artist’s alter-ego appeared for the first time on the pages of “Linus”. The artist will be a guest at the Italian Cultural Institute […]

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Climate: Della Vedova in Ankara for UN Conference on Desertification

Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Benedetto Della Vedova will be in Ankara today and tomorrow to speak at the 12th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. The Under-Secretary will chair the segment on the role of the private sector in the fight against desertification, which is at the root of numerous […]

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15th Italian Language in the World Week

The Auditorium of Muscat “Dal deserto al mar: the Universal Love for the Italian Opera”   The Embassy of Italy in Muscat presents a selection of operatic arias by Donizetti, Puccini, Verdi, Mascagni and Mozart, performed by the Teatro Sociale of Como conducted by Barbara Minghetti: Marigona Qerkezi (soprano), Cinzia Chiarini (mezzosoprano), Ugo Tarquini (tenor), […]

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Dei – Algeria: Algeriers – Be’jaia Maritime line opens with Italian ships

The first domestic maritime line connecting the port of Algiers with the city of Be’jaia in Cabilia has become operational, and will be served by two ferries bought from Italy for approximately 3 million euro each. These will operate 6 days a week, with the exception of the winter period, with a transport capacity of […]

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OSCE – Minister Gentiloni at the first day of the Mediterranean Conference

The 2015 edition of the Conference of OSCE countries and the six Mediterranean partners (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Israel and Jordan) is being hosted by Jordan on 20 and 21 October in Sweimeh on the banks of the Dead Sea. The conference is dedicated to the theme “Common Security in the Mediterranean region – challenges […]

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Tuesday 20 October on Radio Luiss, latest instalment of “Diplomazia e Dintorni”

The radio programme “Diplomazia e Dintorni”, conducted by Stefano Baldi for Radio LUISS, returns on Tuesday 20 October in its usual 20:00 time-slot.The first instalment of this third season is devoted to “Diplomacy and Journalism”.There is a tendency to consider the professions of diplomacy and journalism as having many affinities. While there are many differences […]

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Conference in Florence with Under-Secretary Giro on the value and dissemination of the Italian language in the world

Contemporary with the 15th Italian Language in the World Week, the conference “Riparliamone: la lingua ha valore” took place at Florence’s Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on the impetus of Under-Secretary Mario Giro and in collaboration with the Florence city government. Participants included Under-Secretary Giro and Gabriele Toccafondi […]

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Cartoline dall’altra Italia – The sommelier that seduced the Big Apple

A diplomatic career suspended in order to dedicate herself to the promotion of winemaking. Today Alessandra Rotondi lives in New York, where she has earned the nickname “The Wine Lady” for having created the project “Wine Seduction”, which flanks technical explanations of wine with seduction and fun. “New Yorkers flatly reject anything boring, so I […]

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