DEI – China: New platform for online cross-border trade

Guangxin Trade Development, part of the Guangxin Group, a public holding with over 25,000 employees and over 23 companies, has developed a new electronic commerce platform called GTD (http://www.ggtdc.com). The platform will enable imported products with reduced customs duties to enter China. The company’s operational headquarters is in Nansha, one of the 3 hubs (along […]

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Deputy Minister Lapo Pistelli is leaving his government position

Deputy Minister Lapo Pistelli has decided to leave his government position and from July 2015 will be taking up a new and senior role with energy company ENI. Minister Paolo Gentiloni congratulated Pistelli for his work at the Farnesina since 2013. The Deputy Minister has achieved excellent results in all spheres of responsibility within his […]

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Immigration: Italy and Macedonia sign protocol on repatriation procedures for irregular immigrants

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni, has signed an agreement with his Macedonian opposite number, Nikola Poposki, which facilitates the repatriation of irregular immigrants. The protocol, drawn up in agreement with the two Home Affairs Ministries, regulates repatriation procedures for irregular immigrants from Macedonia or from third countries using Macedonia for […]

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Italy-Pakistan: Della Vedova visiting Islamabad

The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Benedetto Della Vedova, will be visiting Pakistan today and tomorrow, 15-16 June 2015. In Islamabad he will meet members of the government, including the Prime Minister’s Special Assistant, Ambassador Syed Tariq Fatemi; the Minister for Commerce, Dastagir Khurram Khan; the Minister for Petroleum, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi; and […]

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Asunción – “L’Italia del futuro” arrives in Paraguay

An exhibition entitled “Italia del futuro” has opened at the Catholic University of Asunción and will run until 11 June 2015. The initiative was organised by the Farnesina and by the National Research Council (CNR) in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna […]

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Jakarta – Artemis Danza performs “Traviata”

Artemis Danza will perform “Traviata” in Jakarta, as the first chapter in its “Giuseppe Verdi” project. The performance will be hosted by the theatre at the Ciputra Artpreneur cultural centre to mark the 65th anniversary of bilateral relations between Italy and Indonesia. The centre has organised the initiative in collaboration with the Italian Embassy in […]

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Gentiloni: “The nay-saying countries are short-sighted” (La Stampa)

“All of this reluctance to accept the European Commission’s immigration plan seems short-sighted to me”. Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni has always taken a cautious approach and avoided any show of triumphalism even when – in mid-May – Italy could have claimed the transformation of the immigration dossier into a shared, European dossier, as a national […]

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Second ‘IBAC Italy’ Day at the Farnesina: growing business interest in investing in Italy

International businesses are increasingly interested in investing in Italy, as emerged from the 5th edition of “IBAC-ITALY”, an event organised by the MIUR, MiSE and ICE-Agenzia to promote the attraction of investments in Italy. Promoting the attraction of investments in Italy The goal of the initiative, being held for the second time at the Farnesina, […]

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Dei – South Africa: Enel Green Power awarded another 2 wind turbine projects

The South African Ministry of Energy announced it had awarded another 13 solar panel and wind turbine projects within the context of the so-called “over allocation” of the fourth stage of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP), after the award in April of contracts for 1,000MW of installed power. In this new […]

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Cooperation: First meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Committee. Gentiloni, fundamental component in the presence of the overall country system

The government’s determination to strengthen the Italian Development Cooperation as a strategic investment for Italy in its attempts to meet the challenges posed by security, global growth, climate change and migration. This was the message that emerged from the first meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Development Cooperation chaired by the Prime Minister yesterday at […]

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Cooperation: First meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Committee. Gentiloni, fundamental component in the presence of the overall country system

The government’s determination to strengthen the Italian Development Cooperation as a strategic investment for Italy in its attempts to meet the challenges posed by security, global growth, climate change and migration. This was the message that emerged from the first meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Development Cooperation chaired by the Prime Minister yesterday at […]

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Cooperation: First meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Committee. Gentiloni, fundamental component in the presence of the overall country system

The government’s determination to strengthen the Italian Development Cooperation as a strategic investment for Italy in its attempts to meet the challenges posed by security, global growth, climate change and migration. This was the message that emerged from the first meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Development Cooperation chaired by the Prime Minister yesterday at […]

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