Malta – EU ambassadors celebrate “European Day of Languages”

Within the context of the activities of the Italian Presidency of the Council of the EU, the Italian Cultural Institute of La Valletta in Malta celebrated “European Day of Languages” with a cultural activity entitled “Concert of Languages”, organised with the patronage of the Embassy of Italy in La Valletta and the Malta-EU Steering and […]

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Prague – Photo show by Vincenzo Cottinelli

Faces, gestures, tools and living environments connected with a large number of writes, poets, actors, scientists, painters and philosophers form the subject matter of a wide selection of photos by one of Italy’s most important living photographers, Vincenzo Cottinelli organized in coincidence with the Italian Presidency of the Council of the EU. Read more, in […]

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Belfast – Diplomatic mission for Italian EU Presidency

Italian diplomacy made a diplomatic mission to Northern Ireland on Monday for the presentation by Italian ambassador Pasquale Terracciano to the Ulster parliament in Belfast of the Italian programme, and for a meeting with the president of the parliament and the Northern Ireland governmental committee. Read more, in Italian.

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Shoah – Ricordata a Yad Vashem razzia ebrei ottobre 1943 (in translation)

”Il negazionismo non ha vinto e non vincera”’. Lo ha detto l’ambasciatore italiano in Israele Francesco Maria Talo’ nella cerimonia che a Yad Vashem, il Sacrario della Memoria di Gerusalemme, ha ricordato oggi la deportazione e lo sterminio degli ebrei italiani. ”Per noi italiani, per lo stato italiano, l’inizio del tunnel – ha sottolineato Talo’ […]

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Giro: “Italiano, seconda lingua nel mondo” (Il Sole 24 Ore)

La fragilità delle frontiere impone nuovi criteri d`appartenenza e fa della lingua una nuova geografia. Le lingue possono separare i popoli, se considerate espressioni d`identità contrapposte, aggressive o chiuse. Diventano strumenti di disprezzo e rifiuto dell`altro. Però possono unire, essere ponte, in quanto elementi di conoscenza utili nel dialogo. Possono essere una scommessa per la […]

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Dichiarazione congiunta sulla Libia dei Governi di Francia, Italia, Germania, Regno Unito e Stati Uniti d’America

Joint Statement on Libya by the Governments of France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States The governments of France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States strongly condemn the ongoing violence in Libya and call for an immediate cessation of hostilities. We condemn the crimes of Ansar al-Sharia entities, and […]

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Accreditation Notice: Italian Language in the World States General (Florence, 21 and 22 October 2014)

The Italian Language in the World States General will take place in Florence on 21 and 22 October 2014, in Palazzo Vecchio and the Teatro della Pergola. The event is an initiative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFAIC) in collaboration with the Ministry for Education, the Universities and Research (MIUR) and […]

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Ue-Angola: Pistelli copresiede riunione Ministeriale

The Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Lapo Pistelli, co-chaired an EU-Angola ministerial this morning in Brussels. The meeting took place in the framework of the “Joint Way Forward” dialogue process to intensify the bilateral political, economic and social partnership. “The European Union and Italy view Angola’s economic progress and its growing role […]

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Dei/Sole 24 Ore – Asia-Europe: business community’s goal is to reduce protectionism

The entrepreneurs who attended the 14th Asia-Europe Business Forum in Milan, organised this year by Confindustria and BusinessEurope, closed their meeting with a statement. The document containing the recommendations of the European and Asian business communities was handed over to the political leaders by Emma Marcegaglia, current President of BusinessEurope. The entrepreneurs’ goal is to […]

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Ukraine: Mogherini, Klimkin, Lavrov and Burkhalter working on new OSCE monitoring mission using drones

Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini and the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin and Russia, Serghei Lavrov, met today with the Chairperson of the OSCE, Didier Burkhalter, to work on an OSCE mission to monitor the line of the Russian-Ukrainian ceasefire. The meeting, which took place in the margins of the ASEM Summit in Milan, was […]

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Italian Statistics Day – Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be taking part

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, a member of the National Statistics System, is taking part in the 4th Italian Statistics Day (21 October 2014). Statistics Day is promoted and organised by the National Statistics Institute (ISTAT) and the Italian Statistics Society (SIS).

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Libya: Mogherini stresses need for follow-up to diplomatic efforts

After her visit to Tripoli on Saturday 11 October, Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini spoke on the phone today with the United Nations Special Envoy for Libya, Bernardino Leon. In the run-up to the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council taking place in Luxembourg on Monday 20 October, they discussed the developments in the crisis. “The situation, […]

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