Italy-Japan – Collaboration on earthquake studies

The National Physics Institute (INFN) and National Geophysics and Volcanology Institute (INGV) signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Earthquake Research (ERI) in the margins of the Muographer2014 workshop held at the Embassy of Italy in Tokyo. Participants in the signing included Italian ambassador to Tokyo Domenico Giorgi and Ambassador […]

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Vietnam – Italy support for SMEs

Italy will be offering technical support to SMEs in southern Vietnam to help improve their competitiveness, according to the Director of the Italian Cooperation’s office in Vietnam, Riccardo Mattei during a meeting with the people’s committee of Ho Chi Minh City and the province of Dong Nai. “Italy”, he explained, “with its strong points in […]

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Diplomazia e Dintorni – When classical music meets diplomacy (Tuesday 25 at 20:00)

Maestro Lorenzo Flores, orchestra conductor and composer, will be the guest on the 6th segment of Diplomazia e Dintorni on Radio LUISS, dedicated this time to the relationship between classical music and diplomacy. Music and the dialogue between peoples Music in general, and classical in particular, is a fundamental element of our cultural tradition and […]

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Scomparsa studenti messicani Guerrero: Gentiloni segue da vicino evolversi vicenda

In response to the appeal launched by architect Steiner and numerous others signers of a petition to shed light on the disappearance of 43 Mexican students in the State of Guerrero, the Italian foreign ministry announced that Minister Paolo Gentiloni was closely monitoring developments in that tragic situation. The foreign ministry has been in contact […]

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L`interventismo umanitario è di sinistra. Gentiloni a tutto campo (Il Foglio)

Rome. Newly appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni is able to keep the idealism of humanitarian intervention together with the realism of stabilisation – two facets of foreign policy theory that are often irreconcilable – and he does it by drawing a clear line between what today is (has become) the […]

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Gentiloni: soddisfazione per 5° Risoluzione ONU per la Moratoria della Pena di Morte

Il Ministro degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale Paolo Gentiloni ha espresso viva soddisfazione per l’adozione la scorsa notte della quinta Risoluzione per una moratoria universale della pena di morte: “Il voto della notte scorsa alle Nazioni Unite rappresenta un ulteriore passo avanti nella battaglia di civiltà a favore della moratoria universale della pena […]

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Risoluzione ONU sull’eliminazione dei matrimoni precoci e forzati

Italy expressed satisfaction with the adoption by consensus in the Third Commission of the UN General Assembly of a resolution on the elimination of child, early and forced marriages. The Italian government was among the supporters of the resolution, which was sustained by 118 co-sponsors and is the first to confront the problem of early […]

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Gentiloni: incontro con il Commissario Ue per la Cooperazione Internazionale e lo Sviluppo Neven Mimica

Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni met today with EU Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica. Their discussions included the development projects under way under the Italian EU presidency, particularly regarding Development Agenda negotiations, the migration-development link and the role of the private sector. There was a general convergence of […]

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Italia-Moldavia: Della Vedova Incontra Ministro Esteri Gherman

Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Benedetto Della Vedova met today at the Farnesina with Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister of the Republic of Moldavia Natalia Gherman. Their discussions centred on preparations for the parliamentary elections in Moldavia on 30 November, not least with regard to the polls to be opened in Italy, and economic and social […]

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DEI/Sole 24 Ore – Chile: USD 4.2 billion in transport investiments

Chile: USD 4.2 billion in transport investiments President Bachelet presented a portfolio of upcoming plans for investment in the sector of transport totalling USD 4.2 billion. In some cases, these are projects already announced by the previous administration and, in others, new ones aimed at improving the transport networks of regional capitals. Of the total […]

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Comunicato stampa congiunto MAECI – Uni-Italia sul Convegno “Le Reti e le Agenzie di internazionalizzazione in Europa”

Si è tenuta oggi alla Farnesina la seconda Conferenza annuale “Le Reti e le Agenzie di internazionalizzazione in Europa”, organizzata dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale e da Uni-Italia con il Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca, il Ministero dell’Interno e la Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università Italiane. L’incontro è stato un’occasione […]

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Joint MAECI – Uni-Italia press release on the “Internationalisation networks and agencies in Europe” Conference

The second annual “Internationalisation networks and agencies in Europe” conference was held at the Farnesina today, organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and Uni-Italia, with the Ministries of Education, University and Research (MIUR) and of the Interior and the Conference of Italian University Deans (CRUI). The meeting offered the principal European […]

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