Under-Secretary Della Vedova, mission to Minsk

Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Benedetto Della Vedova will arrive tomorrow in Minsk for meetings with authorities of the Republic of Belarus that will include Deputy Foreign Minister Alena Kupchina and Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko. Della Vedova will also meet in Minsk  with representatives of the political opposition and of local NGOs […]

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ACCREDITATION NOTICE – Italy and future challenges to Global Health (Farnesina, 5 March)

The Farnesina will host the International Conference “Italy and future challenges to global health” on Thursday 5 March at 9:30 chaired by Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Lapo Pistelli. The Global Fund, an innovative mechanism by which to combat disease in the world’s poorest countries, currently provides 21% of international funding for […]

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Scotland – Expo 2015 comes to Glasgow

Expo 2015 arrived in Scotland’s Glasgow Museum, which hosted an entire day of events dedicated to the Milan EXPO. Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Ambassador of Italy to the UK Pasquale Terracciano were on hand, along with 500 invited guests representing a variety of institutions. Terraciano  expressed the hopes that the British people would […]

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Italy-Egypt: Conference today in Milan on partnership opportunities

A conference will be held today in Milan entitled “Italy and Egypt: new opportunities for a privileged partnership” promoted by ISPI with Promos-Chamber of Commerce Milano and Intesa San Paolo-Studies Department. Participants will include Egyptian Minister for Investments Ashraf Salman, in addition to institutional representatives and Italian businesses operating in Egypt. Marcello Sala, co-chairman of […]

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Melbourne – Italian kiwi land on Australian tables

Italy and Australia join forces on – kiwis, of course. Thanks to an agreement between “Kiwiny Green” of Giavera del Montello located in the province of Treviso and the “Premier Fruits Group” of Melbourne, Australian shops will begin to offer high quality, organically-grown kiwis cultivated in the Italian region of Veneto. Read more, in Italian.

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Argentina – Italy showcased at Pantalla Pinamar

The 11th edition of the Argentine-European film festival Pantalla Pinamar, named for the same Argentine town located in the province of Buenos Aires, will take place from 7 to 14 March. Italy will enjoy a special showcase for its latest productions in the section “Selected films from the Taormina Festival”. There will be a press […]

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A new EU-US Marshall Plan for the Mediterranean and Middle East

A two-day (26/27 February) conference held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation entitled “A new EU –US Marshall Plan for the Mediterranean and Middle East: economic development and cooperation policies”, was arranged by the MFAIC in collaboration with the Association Prospettive Mediterranee, the Ebert Foundation (FES-Italia), EURISPES, The University of Calabria, The Italian […]

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Syria. Attacks in Hasake Province. Unacceptable genocide, says Gentiloni. Preserve Middle East cultural and religious patrimony

“I wish to express my firmest condemnation of the religious and ethnic-related violence systematically and viciously perpetrated by the Daesh against local Syrian populations”. Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni commented thus on the news of the kidnapping and murder of dozens of Christian civilians in Syrian orthodox villages in the northeast […]

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Frankfurt – An association against “Italian Sounding”

An association against “Italian sounding” brands has been created in Germany through the collaborative efforts of the Italian Chambers of Commerce of Frankfurt and Munich and the Confagricultura. Its aim is to counter the spread, especially in the case of agri-agricultural products, of counterfeit and “doctored” products branded with what sound like authentic Italian labels. […]

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Tokyo – Leonardo lives in “An impossible interview”

The theatrical event “Being Leonardo Da Vinci. An impossible Interview”, written, directed and acted by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, is currently touring Japan. After its premier in Tokyo, it will go on to tour Fukuoka, Nagoya, Kyoto and Osaka. Italian ambassador to Tokyo Domenico Giorgi attended the opening, which was organised and hosted by the Italian […]

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Algiers – Christian Leotta brings Beethoven’s sonatas

Pianist Christian Leotta brought the first 8 of Ludwig Van Beethoven’s piano sonatas to Algiers in a recital at the Auditorium of the Radio. The event was a premier for Africa, and the first phase in a project created by the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with the ‘Aissa Messaoudi’ Cultural Centre for the execution […]

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UK – Science and Uni cooperation grows

Italian ambassador to the London Pasquale Terracciano was at the University of Cambridge for a series of meetings focused on boosting Italian studies at that British university complex, later visiting the Fitzwilliam Museum, where two bronze statues on loan to the museum were recently attributed to Michelangelo. The ambassador then went on to the Language Department, […]

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