ACCREDITATION NOTICE Recall – Conference “From the world to the Farnesina: the coexistence of differences” (Thusday 19 March, 10:30)

At 10:30 on Thursday 19 March the Farnesina will host a conference entitled “From the world to the Farnesina: the coexistence of differences” sponsored by the Comitato Unico di Garanzia of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and is an awareness raising initiative within the framework of the national campaign “Switch on your […]

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ACCREDITATION NOTICE: Press Conference Minister Gentiloni—Ban Ki-moon

Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni will meet with Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon at the Farnesina on Wednesday 18 March at 8:30.   A joint press conference will follow the meetings. Online accreditation system. Journalists, photographers and TV crews interested in following the event should: – complete the […]

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Gentiloni meets with UNESCAP representatives

Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni met today with the ambassadors accredited in Rome of the Asian member countries of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), one of five regional economic commissions that answer to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The meeting, which […]

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Tokyo – Japan in search of Siena, from origins to the present

“Storia di Siena. Dalle origini ai giorni nostri” (Edizioni Biblioteca dell’Immagine, 2013), written by Prof. Mario Ascheri of Roma Tre University, is a history of the city of Siena. The author will hold a conference at the Umberto Agnelli Auditorium of the Italian Cultural Institute of Tokyo entitled “Siena, a Medieval City-State and its Heritage”, […]

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ACCREDITATION NOTICE: Press Conference Minister Gentiloni – Romanian colleague Bogdan Lucian Aurescu (Farnesina, 19 March 2015)

Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni will meet with his Romanian counterpart Bogdan Lucian Aurescu at 10:00 on Thursday 19 March. A joint press conference in scheduled at the end of the meeting.   Online accreditation system. Journalists, photographers and TV crews interested in following the event should: – complete the interactive […]

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Italian Cooperation earmarks 300,000 euro in humanitarian aid for Vanuatu after cyclone PAM

In response to the serious emergency resulting from the passage of cyclone Pam in the South Pacific that was especially devastating to the Vanuatu archipelago, causing dozens of deaths and widespread destruction, the Italian Cooperation decided to make a 300,000- euro multilateral contribution to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). […]

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USA – The Italian embassy is “Chasing Ice”

The Italian embassy will host a screening on 19 March of the award-winning documentary “Chasing Ice” for the “Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital” to be held in Washington from 17 to 29 March. Speaker Tommaso Valente, himself a filmmaker, will introduce the film discuss whether or not we should be worried. “This documentary […]

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ACCREDITATION NOTICE: Trilateral press conference Italy-Egypt-Algeria (Farnesina, 18 March 2015)

Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni will meet at the Farnesina on Wednesday 18 March 2015 with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Algerian Minister for Maghreb and African Affairs Abdelkader Messahel. A joint press conference is scheduled at the end of the meeting. Online accreditation system. Journalists, photographers and TV crews […]

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Japan: Tokyo accelerates energy reforms

Energy reforms go rapidly forward in Japan. The Abe government has approved laws for a third set that contains changes in the generation, marketing and distribution of electrical, gas and thermal energy. With regard to the electricity sector, the Organization for Cross-regional Coordination of Transmission Operators, an energy authority, will be operational as from April, […]

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Budapest – Theatre – Journey in the world of Eduardo De Filippo

Entering into the world of Edoardo De Filippo means going back over a century of Italian history, changes in habits, tastes and fashions and always recounted with the same passion and lucid insight of the great Neapolitan playwright (Naples 1900—Rome 1984). The conference will be held at the Italian Cultural Institute of Budapest and see […]

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Dublin – Poetry of Domingo Notaro and his “E-le-menti delle parole”

Domingo Notaro is not only a Calabrian painter and sculptor whose works have been exhibited in Italy and abroad, but he is also a poet. His book of poetry “E-le-menti delle parole, The mind-elements of words” (Dedalus Press), a bilingual collection of his works (translated by Catherine O’Brien and Kay McCarthy, is to be launched […]

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Bucharest – Messages in Braille to Italian embassy

Italy is in the forefront in the defence and promotion of the rights of the visually impaired. The embassy of Italy in Bucharest has joined the campaign launched by the Romanian Consumer Protection Association (Anpcpps Romania), equipping the mission with all standard signage for use by the public in Braille. Read more, in Italian.

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