Bodies of Italian victims of terrorist attack in Tunis flown to Rome

The Head of the Farnesina Crisis Unit left the Tunis airport with the bodies of the victims of the terrorist attack in Tunis and their families headed for Rome, where the authorities will perform the procedures required by law. Once those procedures are have been completed, they will be flown back to Turin.

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South Africa: Trade with Italy on the rise

Italy-South Africa trade in 2014 rose to nearly 3.6 billion euro, showing an increase of 3.6% compared with 2013. In particular, recent years have seen considerable growth in our exports to South Africa, with an increase of almost 9% in the period 2011-2014. Some of the most important growth has been in machinery and equipment […]

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Establishment of ISIL Counter-Financing Work Group (GCFI)

On 19 and 20 March, Italy, The United States and Saudi Arabia co-chaired the first meeting of the ISIL Counter-Financing Work Group (ICFG) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The representatives of 26 countries and international organisations met to analyse the funds flowing toward ISIL, share intelligence sources and coordinate efforts to […]

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Stockholm – Poet Valerio Magrelli ready to enchant the Swedish public

Roman poet, translator and literary critic Valerio Magrelli, noted for his irony and humour, will he the guest Saturday of World Poetry Day in Malmö in a group of eight poets from various countries around the world. On Tuesday 24 March he will participate in an encounter at 18:00 at the Stockholm Italian Cultural Institute. […]

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Bratislava – The Goblins of ‘Profondo Rosso’

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.

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Washington – Italian food traditions take centre stage

Ahead 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 […]

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Panama – Italian unification celebrated in music

The 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 […]

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Gentiloni: «Rapid pacification of Libya to combat terrorism» (Il Messaggero)

As 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, […]

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Gentiloni: «Rapid pacification of Libya to combat terrorism» (Il Messaggero)

As 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, […]

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From the World to the Farnesina: the coexistence of differences

The 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 […]

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Zagreb – The art of Riccardo Dalisi

The 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 […]

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Italy – Austria: Valensise – Linhart meeting

Stability 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 […]

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