COMITES. Elections to be repeated in 24 districts.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation will repeat COMITES elections in the districts where no list was either submitted or approved”, announced Under-Secretary Mario Giro.   The COMITES in question are: Vienna, Liege, Lyon, Nice, Athens, Dublin, Oslo, Lisbon, Edinburgh, Prague, Bucharest, San Marino, Madrid, Barcelona, Stockholm, Bangkok, Pretoria, Cape Town, Perth, Chicago, […]

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Dei/Sole 24 Ore – Principality of Monaco: GDP + 9,3%, Italian exports also up

Principality of Monaco: GDP + 9,3%, Italian exports also up The Monégasque economy registered an increase in real terms of 9.3% in 2013 and the trend held through 2014. All services sectors contributed solidly to this result, but those that stood out in particular were scientific and technical services, administrative support for businesses (+5.9%) and […]

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Dei/Sole 24 Ore – Principality of Monaco: GDP + 9,3%, Italian exports also up

Principality of Monaco: GDP + 9,3%, Italian exports also up The Monégasque economy registered an increase in real terms of 9.3% in 2013 and the trend held through 2014. All services sectors contributed solidly to this result, but those that stood out in particular were scientific and technical services, administrative support for businesses (+5.9%) and […]

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Dei/Sole 24 Ore – Principality of Monaco: GDP + 9,3%, Italian exports also up

Principality of Monaco: GDP + 9,3%, Italian exports also up The Monégasque economy registered an increase in real terms of 9.3% in 2013 and the trend held through 2014. All services sectors contributed solidly to this result, but those that stood out in particular were scientific and technical services, administrative support for businesses (+5.9%) and […]

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Dei/Sole 24 Ore – Principality of Monaco: GDP + 9,3%, Italian exports also up

Principality of Monaco: GDP + 9,3%, Italian exports also up The Monégasque economy registered an increase in real terms of 9.3% in 2013 and the trend held through 2014. All services sectors contributed solidly to this result, but those that stood out in particular were scientific and technical services, administrative support for businesses (+5.9%) and […]

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Dei/Sole 24 Ore – Argentina: Parliament approves Argentina Digital law

Argentina: Parliament approves Argentina Digital law The Argentine Parliament has approved a bill entitled “Argentina Digital”, which introduces new national market regulations on telecommunications and Internet and cable television services. In particular, it establishes a new sector administration and control agency known as “Autoridad Federal de Tecnologias de la Informacion y las Comunicaciones AFTIC” and […]

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Barcelona: Success for Italian cinema and immigration

A recently held Italian film festival organised by the Italian Cultural Institute of Barcelona and the Cinecittà Istituto Luce, with the patronage of the Italian Consulate General in Barcelona, was a great critical and popular success. The event offered Italian cinema lovers in Barcelona an opportunity to see some of the best in recent film […]

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Budapest: Italy in music, theatre and literature

The Italian Cultural Institute of Budapest inaugurated a calendar of events planned for the early months of 2015 with a concert on Sunday by Tito Ceccherini and the Mav Symphony Orchestra, with Pasquale Iannone on piano. Two events will follow, both to be held in the Institute’s Sala Giuseppe Verdi, in which the Mav Symphony […]

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London: The art of Renato Guttuso

An exhibition of the work of one of Italian modern and contemporary art’s greatest painters, Renato Guttuso, opens on Wednesday at London’s Estorick Collection – after an absence of over 20 years in the British capital – will run through 4 April. The Sicilian painter (1911-1987) was twice senator of the Italian Republic and became […]

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Italian EU Presidency – “Europe has changed direction, time now for action”

Over the past six months, Europe has undergone a “profound change in direction, now it’s time for action”; while the Italian EU presidency has “the colour and taste of an opportunity”. In his closing speech for the EU presidency in Strasbourg, Matteo Renzi underscored that “either Europe switches economic gears or it is going to […]

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Crisis, Ferragamo: Italy has great potential but needs confidence

Italy has great potential and the conditions for getting back on track “do exist”. “What we need is confidence and a bit of stability, and I am sure that results will follow. Italians are fantastic”. Ferruccio Ferragamo, president of the eponymous group, speaks in an interview with PEI NEWS and the Farnesina Multimedia service in […]

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Gentiloni: No EU government is talking about suspending Schengen – ISIS is terrorism becoming State. EU foreign ministers to meet in Brussels Monday

“No EU government is talking about suspending Schengen. Sacrificing our freedom of circulation would be an unacceptable price to pay”. Minister Paolo Gentiloni reported to the Senate on the attacks in France on “three days of horror that France and Europe will never forget”. Stating that the government shared the pain of the families of […]

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