Udine – Internationalisation Roadshow

The next stop for the Italian Foreign and Development Ministries’ travelling “internationalisation roadshow” is Udine. The city, located in northeast Italy’s Friuli Venezia Giulia region, is to host the business internationalisation conference and showcase on 31 October. Attended by Deputy Development Minister Carlo Calenda and by local and central government internationalisation agencies and business lobbies, […]

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Intervento del sottosegretario Mario Giro in occasione degli Stati Generali della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo

(fa fede solo il testo effettivamente pronunciato) Cari amici, Ricordatevi tre semplici cifre: 4,5 milioni, 80 milioni, 250 milioni. Sono questi i numeri dell’Italia nel mondo. E dell’italiano. Il presidente del Consiglio Matteo Renzi ha detto recentemente che “c’è grande voglia di Italia nel mondo”. E’ così, molto di più di quanto pensiamo. Sono 4,5 […]

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70th anniversary of SIOI

President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano opened the exhibition “1944-2014: i 70 anni della SIOI. Palazzetto Venezia racconta la storia della politica estera italiana”. In attendance were SIOI president and former foreign minister Franco Frattini and Farnesina secretary-general Michele Valensise. Società Italiana per l’Organizzazione Internazionale (SIOI), the historic Italian post-war agency that has been […]

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EU: Della Vedova chairs 4th Cooperation Council with Tajikistan

Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Benedetto Della Vedova and Foreign Minister of Tajikistan Sirojidin Aslov co-chaired the fourth meeting of EU Cooperation Council with Tajikistan today in Luxembourg within the framework of the Italian Presidency of the Council of the EU. The meeting brought relations between the EU and that Central Asian nation to a new […]

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Dei/Sole 24 Ore – Morocco: examining new operations for €200 million

Morocco: examining new operations for €200 million Within the context of a Ministry of Economic Development mission to Morocco, SACE announced that Italy was examining 200,000 euros in new investments. Italy’s current portfolio of Italian exports and investments ensured by SACE in Morocco are mainly concentrated in high risk industrial sectors such as mechanics, infrastructure […]

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Innovitalia – Italian research around the globe

Innovitalia is a web space managed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and international Cooperation (MAECI) and the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) with a view to fostering the internationalisation of Italian research. Its intention is to offer sector operators constant updates on MAECI efforts to promote science and technology cooperation with other […]

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Special OSCE monitoring mission – Opportunity to apply for observer post

In response to a need for more observers, the OSCE Directorate of Human Resources has extended the deadline for the submission of applications for the post of Monitoring Officer with the Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine. Recruitment of new observers The recruitment of new observers arises from the need to take on the task of […]

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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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