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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Ankara – Turkish debut for Italian robot pianist

Italian robot pianist “Teo Tronico” and pedal keyboard played by Roberto Prasseda made their Turkish debut in Ankara, accompanied by the Orkestra Akademik Baskent conducted by Ertug Korkmaz. The event was a joint effort by the Italian Embassy in Ankara, Institute of Culture of Istanbul, the Sevda-Cenap And Music Foundation and the University of Baskent, […]

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Gentiloni: «EU must end egotistical silence over persecuted Christians» (Avvenire)

“Italy is committed in Europe to keeping the attention on the persecution of Christians and offering solidarity through specific projects. Otherwise we would be the passive accomplices of that silence denounced by Pope Frances”. Minister Paolo Gentiloni speaks upon his return from a visit to Kenya after the tragic events at the University of Garissa. […]

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Gentiloni: Meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister

Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni met today with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Eduard Nalbadyan. The meeting offered an opportunity to exchange views on principal international concerns, particularly the tensions in the Mediterranean region and the Middle East, recent developments in the Iranian nuclear negotiations and the […]

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Dei – Kazakhstan: Italcementi signs MoU for Shymkent plant

Shymkentcement/Italcementi signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the local government of Shymkent, capital of the South Kazakhstan Region, involving the Italian firm’s commitment to maintain current employment levels for the next 2 years. The plant is working on modernising, with an overall investment of 100 million euro, for the transition of 4 production lines dating […]

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Diplomacy to the aid of Italian publishers around the world

“Le lingue per lo Strega” is a travelogue of the Italian language through the languages of the world, and is the title of a collection of translations in various languages of the openings of the 12 finalists for the 2014 Strega Prize for best novel. The idea came out of a collaboration between BooksinItaly, the […]

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