DEI – Serbia: Construction of Smederevo industrial park gets under way

Construction on Serbia’s new Smederevo Industrial Park is now under way. Its aim is to diversify the city’s economic fabric by attracting new enterprise, and Italian firms are playing a leading role. Cimolai, producers of steel structures, has rented the Zelvoz company’s largest facility with an investment of approximately 1.5 million euro for refurbishing and […]

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Brazil – Exhibit of Italian UNESCO sites

“Italian UNESCO sites” is the title of an exhibition of photographs by Luca Capuano to be held from 11 May to 11 June in Sao Paulo. The initiative is a joint collaboration by the Italian Cultural Institute of Brasilia and the Italo-Brazilian Cultural Institute of Sao Paulo, and is associated with the Milan EXPO. The […]

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Rabat – Balletto di Milano stages ‘Viva Verdi’

The “Balletto di Milano” will celebrate Giuseppe Verdi’s best-known lyric works in Rabat, Morocco, on 19 May in an event entitled “Viva Verdi”. The itinerant show, which has already been received enthusiastically by thousands of spectators around the world, offers an opportunity to discover the poetry and originality of the ballets contained in some of […]

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Montreal – Ettore Scola film retrospective

The Cinematheque Quebecoise of Montreal will host a retrospective of 13 films by the great Italian director Ettore Scola. The event, which starts tomorrow and runs through 31 May, has been organised in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute and Cinecittà’s Istituto Luce. Audiences will be able to view the films in the original Italian […]

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Dei – Argentina: FAMI opens Storage Compat factory in Belen

  The new factory of Storage Compat, a joint venture between the Argentine company of the same name and FAMI, an Italian company, has opened in Belen de Escobar, about 60 km from Buenos Aires. FAMI produces plastic containers and furniture and metal sheets for industrial use. Storage Compat has annual sales of 5 million […]

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New York: Art – a new “David” arrives in New York from Florence

“Hero” is a very personal interpretation of Michelangelo’s David by the architect and designer Antonio Pio Saracino, originally from Puglia but based for over a decade in New York. The work will be on display from today until 20 September 2015 in the inner courtyard of the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence. Promoted by the Gallery […]

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EU – European neighbourhood policies: conference at the Farnesina

On Monday 4 May a conference on “The EU and its neighbours: charting the way forward”, took place at the Farnesina. The event was organised by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in collaboration with the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the Institute for International Affairs (IAI). Crisis […]

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Italy is “country guest” at tourism fair

Italy will be the “country guest” at the international tourism fair in Cuba (FitCuba), which runs from 5 to 7 May 2015. The fair will be opened by Cuba’s Minister for Tourism, Manuel Marrero, and by the Italian Under-Secretary for Cultural Assets and Tourism, Francesca Barracciu. Italy’s participation in the fair was organised with support […]

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Italy-Bosnia – Cooperating through music

Cooperation between Italy and Bosnia will be taking musical form this summer with a concert for Peace by Milan’s renowned La Scala taking place in Sarajevo in July 2015. The initiative, as the Italian Ambassador in Sarajevo, Ruggero Corrias, explained at the end of a meeting with Bosnia Herzegovina’s foreign minister, Igor Crnadak, “is dedicated […]

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Shanghai – display of masterpieces by Renzo Piano

The Auditorium of Rome, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Osaka’s Kansai airport, Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, the New York Times Building and London Bridge Tower: these are just some of the masterpieces of architectural design by Renzo Piano on display in Shanghai. The exhibition “Piece by Piece, Renzo Piano Building Workshop”, at the Power […]

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Istanbul Convention: Simona Lanzoni elected member of GREVIO

Italian Simona Lanzoni has been elected as one of the first 10 members of the Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO) under the Istanbul Convention. The election took place today, 4 May 2015, in Strasbourg. GREVIO’s role is to verify the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention […]

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Nepal earthquake: Crisis Unit identifies the last Italians reported missing and not yet traced

The Farnesina’s Crisis Unit has managed to identify the last Italians reported as missing in the Nepal earthquake and not yet traced. The constant monitoring of the situation by the Unit and by our Embassy in New Delhi and the Consulate General in Calcutta continues, so that they are ready for any new developments. The […]

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