Dubai – Italy in the forefront of “The Big 5”

Italy was present in force at “The Big 5 Dubai”, the Middle East’s main tradeshow for the building and construction sectors. Our country was represented by over 400 vendors organised in various pavilions covering a surface of over 6,000 square metres (compared with last year’s 315 and 2012’s 270). Turkey came in second with approximately […]

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Brazil – 2014 “Venice Cinema Week” gets underway

The 10th edition of “Venice Cinema Week” got under way in Brazil. An itinerant event, it will leave from the city of Brasilia and touch down in four others: Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, where it will close on 15 December. Its organisers are the Embassy of Italy in Brazil, the […]

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Cameroon – Degree course in Italian as from 2015/2016

Starting with the next academic year 2015/2016, the University of Douala will offer a degree course in Italian starting from the academic year 2015/2016, which was presented at an “Open House” event held during the 14th Italian Language Week. A total of 250 students attended the event, along with Italian cultural attaché Raffaella Anselmi, Deputy […]

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Italia per le Imprese stops in Padua

The 11th leg of the Roadshow Italia per le Imprese, con le PMI verso i mercati esteri (with SMEs toward foreign markets) took place yesterday. The initiative was born within the framework of the Command Centre for Italia Internazionale to better inform Italian small and medium sized enterprises of the various instruments the State makes […]

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Dei/Sole 24 Ore – Hong Kong: Ambasciatore Cina incontra imprese italiane (in translation)

Si e’ svolto un incontro tra il Commissioner del Ministero degli Esteri cinese presso la Regione Amministrativa Speciale di Hong Kong, Ambasciatore Song Zhe e una rappresentanza della business community italiana. All’evento hanno partecipato, oltre all’ICE e alla Camera di commercio italiana ad Hong Kong, 25 rappresentanti di societa’ italiane nei settori lusso, abbigliamento e […]

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Foreign-Defence – Delegation of EU, NATO and Associate countries visit Palazzo Aeronautica

On Saturday 29 November a delegation of European Union, Associated and NATO Country Member ambassadors visited the Palazzo Aeronautica in Rome. The idea was conceived by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Air Force, and falls within the context of the fruitful collaboration between the foreign and defence ministries. The delegation […]

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Ebola: Signing of MFAIC-Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases

The MFAIC’s Directorate General for Development Cooperation today signed a convention with Rome’s Spallanzani Institute for Infectious Diseases on an emergency intervention in Sierra Leone, valued at EUR 250,000, to help fight the spread of the Ebola virus. These Development Cooperation funds will allow the Spallanzani Institute to supply technical assistance to the Sierra Leone […]

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Vietnam: Della Vedova, grande successo missione, Italia vince quando fa sistema

“The satisfaction of businesses that have participated in the mission to Vietnam was 100%, the best results seen in recent years in customer satisfaction surveys of participating firms. This has been a complete success and has shown how Italy can win by creating systems. In other words, when the government, businesses and sector associations coordinate […]

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USA – Midwest Mission for Ambassador Bisogniero

Ambassador to Washington Claudio Bisogniero will make a mission to the Midwest of the United States, where he will meet with local and authorities and Italian communities. His goal is to promote Italy’s trade and cultural ties with the U.S., putting the accent especially on the 2015 EXPO in Milan and the Transatlantic Trade and […]

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Buenos Aires – Embassy awards Argentine journalists

‎ Italy’s ambassador to Argentina, Teresa Castaldo, awarded the 2014 prizes for journalism at the Italian Cultural Institute of Buenos Aires during the opening of an exhibition of the works of photographer Anatole Saderman. Winners included Graciela Cutuli, Emilia Erbetta and Nestor Tirri, who won a trip to Italy in 2015, and two others who […]

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Geneva – Stele honours Italian emigration

Geneva paid tribute to the contribution that Italian emigration made to the construction and development of that city with the dedication of a commemorative stele in the city’s very central Place des Alpes. The initiative was promoted by the Societa’ delle Associazioni Italiane di Ginevra (SAIG), an organisation of Italian associations in Geneva that successfully […]

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Gentiloni: «Dalla Russia alla Libia privilegiare l`interesse nazionale» (Il Messaggero)

Appena rientrato da Abu Dhabi, è in partenza oggi per Bruxelles e domani per Basilea. Dagli Emirati Arabi Uniti ai vertici Nato e Osce. Il ministro degli Esteri Paolo Gentiloni si destreggia fra crisi regionali e fusi orari seguendo una sola bussola che è, dice, «l`interesse nazionale». Ai tempi della guerra in Libia, nel 2011, […]

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