Gentiloni: «Confront the emergency by stabilising Libya» (Il Sole 24Ore)

Minister Gentiloni, in the beginning you were in favour of military intervention in Libya. Are you still of the same mind? «Yes, we are working on trying to construct that framework of international legitimacy with the UN that would allow for intervention».   The military option? «It’s not as if you can intervene just like […]

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Tirana – Italy and Albania together against haemophilia

The Embassy of Italy and Italian Cultural Institute in Tirana will renew their commitment to collaboration in the fight against haemophilia with the Idea Foundation and the Albanian Youth Orchestra, who will offer a concert on 17 April, the day dedicated to the pathology, at the Tirana Orthodox Cathedral (19:00). Read more, in Italian

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Beijing – Made in Italy, Giro d’Italia makes a stop in China

The “Giro d’Italia” will be making a stop in China this year, but we are not talking about the celebrated bike race. This time the ambassador of Italy to Beijing will be wearing the pink jersey. The embassy, in collaboration with other institutional representatives of System Italy in China, have organised the second edition of […]

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Under-Secretary Della Vedova at the Italy–Bulgaria Economic Forum “Together for Growth”

Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Benedetto Della Vedova attended the first Italy-Bulgaria Economic Forum, entitled “Together for Growth”, in Sofia this morning. The form, organised jointly by the Embassy of Italy in Sofia, the Agenzia ICE-Sofia Office, the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria and Confindustria Bulgaria, offered an important opportunity for encounter […]

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Buenos Aires – A meeting of Law and Philosophy

“Celso e Kelsen, per la rifondazione della scienza giuridica” is the title of a book by Filippo Gallo to be presented on 15 April at the Italian Cultural Institute of Buenos Aires. The event has been organised by the Consorcio Universitario Italiano para Argentina (Cuia) and the centre for Lain American legal studies of Rome’s […]

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ACCREDITATION NOTICE – Recall: The Italian Cooperation’s participation in the Milan Expo 2015 and the European Year for Development (Farnesina, 16 April 2015)

On Thursday 16 April at 10:00 the Farnesina will host the presentation of the Italian Cooperation’s participation in the 2015 Milan EXPO and of the European Year for Development. Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Lapo Pistelli will chair the meeting, during which the calendar of events organised by the Directorate for Development […]

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Tokyo – “Money and Beauty” exhibition opens

Japan offers its public a look at how art, history and economy are entwined in an exhibition entitled “Money and Beauty: bankers, Botticelli and the bonfire of the vanities” at Tokyo’s Bunkamura Museum. Its aim is to show the complex relationship between the development of commerce, the birth of the modern banking system and the […]

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Czech Republic – Italy bring 3 films to the European Film Festival

All eyes are on Italy at the 22nd edition of the European Film Festival under way in the Czech Republic, which continues through 16 April in Prague and moves to Brno from the 17th to the 20th. Italy’s three entries are Michele Alhaique’s ‘Senza nessuna pieta”, Daniele Gaglianone’s ‘La mia classe’, and Paolo Sorrentino’s award-winning […]

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Dei – Korea: EU-Korea Innovation Day in Seoul, focus on science and technology cooperation

Korea: EU-Korea Innovation Day in Seoul, focus on science and technology cooperation Scientific and technological cooperation between the European Union and Korea was at the centre of the EU-Korea Innovation Day organised by the Delegation of the European Union and the European Chamber of Commerce in Korea, which was held on 25 march in Seoul. […]

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Buenos Aires – The Genoa Aquarium “Teaches”

President of the Casa America Foundation of Genoa Roberto Speciale, and Costa Edutainment leader Giovanni Battista Costa flew to Argentina on a mission aimed at introducing the authorities of the city of Buenos Aires to the experience of the Genoa Aquarium, whose creation contributed to the relaunch of that Ligurian city in the early 1990s. […]

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Diplomazia e Dintorni – 13th segment dedicated to “Writer Diplomats”

Radio Luiss will air a new segment of the Stefano Bald-conducted programme “Diplomazia e Dintorni” at 20:00 on Tuesday 14 April. The segment will feature a series of interventions by writer-diplomats that originally took place in the context of a cultural event devoted to publications by diplomats. This first part will include Gaetano Cortese, Marco […]

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Oman – Italian high fashion lecture and show

Italian high fashion took centre stage in Oman, where the embassy organised two promotional events. The first was a lecture on the evolution of Italian fashion since the 1950s by Guillermo Mariotto, Creative Director of the Maison Gattinoni, and the other a fashion show featuring the maison’s 2015 Spring-Summer collection. Both were for the benefit […]

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