The Italian cult band “Goblins”, famous for their soundtracks for Dario Argento’s best known films, made a stop in the Slovakian capital. The concert was organised by the Italian Cultural Institute where the Italian group was fronted by Slovak rock band “Persona Grata”. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreAhead of opening of the 2015 Milan EXPO, the Embassy of Italy in the United States organised two conferences in Washington for celebrated Italian food history and cuisine expert Francine Segan: one at the Library of Congress, the world’s largest library, where Segan will speak about traditions and innovations in Italian gastronomy. The other will […]
Read moreThe Embassy of Italy in Panama and the Italian Cultural Institute celebrated the 154th anniversary of the Italian unification with a concert held in the parliament building. The event, which was a great success, was a first for an Italo-Panamanian orchestra that was set up within the framework of a bilateral cultural accord consisting of […]
Read moreAs Foreign Minister, would you say that we now have the first Italian victims of ISIS? Are Tunisia’s Ansar al Sharia jihadists aligned with the Caliphate? «We have the innocent victims of criminal terrorists. And then, it’s very difficult to make a clear distinction between Daesh [ISIS, editor’s note] and more traditional jihad-based terrorism. Certainly, […]
Read moreAs Foreign Minister, would you say that we now have the first Italian victims of ISIS? Are Tunisia’s Ansar al Sharia jihadists aligned with the Caliphate? «We have the innocent victims of criminal terrorists. And then, it’s very difficult to make a clear distinction between Daesh [ISIS, editor’s note] and more traditional jihad-based terrorism. Certainly, […]
Read moreThe Farnesina sent a strong message against racial discrimination by joining the “Switch on your mind, shut off your prejudices” campaign organised by the national anti-racial discrimination office (UNAR) of the Department of Equal Opportunities of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, which the MFAIC joined through its Comitato Unico di Garanzia (joint assurance […]
Read moreThe Italian CulturalInstitute of Zagreb will host an exhibition from 17 March to 10 April of the work of architect Riccardo Dalisi, professor in the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Naples, as well as world-renowned designer and two-time winner of the Golden Compass award, the latest of which in 2014 was for “social […]
Read moreStability along the European Union’s eastern borders, political solutions to the Syrian and Libyan crises and the gradual European integration of the Balkan countries are important sectors for cooperation between Italy and Austria. This was what emerged from meetings in Rome between the delegations led by Farnesina Secretary General Michele Valensise and his Austrian opposite […]
Read moreThe use in drones in land observation and management is booming. Italy’s architects and engineers, along with geologists and archaeologists, are flocking to the use of these new flying machines in their work. And the University of Macerata knows that only too well. Indeed, studying archaeological sites with radio-controlled drones is exactly what the Italo-Albanian […]
Read moreAt little more than a month to the opening of EXPO 2015, the universal exposition will be precisely the main theme of the International Made in Italy Forum (10-12 April) at the Grimaldi Forum in the Principality of Monaco. The event, in keeping with the Italian government’s strategic objectives, is being promoted by the Embassy […]
Read moreThe countdown has begun for the 2015 Milan EXPO (from May 1st to 31 October). Hungary, one of the 145 participants in the event, will present its pavilion at the Italian Cultural Institute of Budapest at 16:00 on Monday 23 March. Hungarian EXPO Commissioner General Géza Szőcs will be on hand. “From the purest source” […]
Read moreMinister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni opened the first meeting of the Anti-ISIL Coalition Work Group on halting financing of Daesh this morning at the Farnesina. The group was set up in implementation of the strategy agreed on by the countries most active in the Coalition, which have launched a strengthened cooperation […]
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