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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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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