Buenos Aires – Italian EU Presidency a topic in Buenos Aires

 “Italy and Europe: a journey across the Italian Presidency of the European Union” is the title of a workshop to be held on 9 September at the Italian Cultural Institute of Buenos Aires. Relateur will be Lorenza Sebesta, holder of the Jean Monnet chair at the University of Bologna’s Buenos Aires branch. The topic will […]

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Sweden – Italy intervenes in extensive fire

Responding to Sweden’s appeal to the European Commission Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC), Italy intervened to help fight the worst forest fire in the country’s recent history. The flames devastated an area of over 15,000 hectares in central Sweden’s Vastmanland county, approximately 150 km northwest of Stockholm. Two Canadair planes from the Italian Civil Defence […]

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Dei/Sole 24 Ore – Australia: go-ahead for Airport Link Project (Western Australia)

Western Australia Premier Colin Barnett announced the approval of the Airport Link project, a railway connection between the centre of Perth and the city’s airport. The project has an estimated value of 2.2 billion Australian dollars (approx. €1.54 billion) and calls for the construction of 8.5 km of new railway that includes an 8 km […]

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EU: Mogherini hails convening of foreign ministers. Calls for common Iraq-Gaza-Libya action

Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini expressed appreciation for the decision by EU High Representative Catherine Ashton to convene a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council on the crises in Iraq, Gaza and Libya for 15 August. “It is well that the EU has decided, as Italy and later France recently urged, to assemble all […]

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Dei/Sole 24 Ore – India introduces restrictions on pharmaceutical labels

India introduces restrictions on pharmaceutical labels The Indian authorities are going forward with the application of legal restrictions on the labelling of medical products that include the inadmissibility of stickers, the consequence of which will be containers pre-printed for the Indian market. A recent Central Drugs and Standards Control Organization (DSCO) circular underscored the need […]

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Gaza: Mogherini calls death of Simone Camilli a tragedy

Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini expressed her condolences on the death of Simone Camilli in Gaza. “The death of Simone Camilli is a tragedy for his family and for our nation”, she said. “Yet again, a journalist has had to pay the price of a war that has lasted too many years, and for […]

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Gaza: Mogherini calls death of Simone Camilli a tragedy

Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini expressed her condolences on the death of Simone Camilli in Gaza. “The death of Simone Camilli is a tragedy for his family and for our nation”, she said. “Yet again, a journalist has had to pay the price of a war that has lasted too many years, and for […]

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Gaza: Farnesina confirms death of Italian Simone Camilli

The Farnesina confirmed the death in the Gaza Strip of Italian national Simone Camilli

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Hong Kong – Success for Italian Cooperation-Science Park

Italy is among the leaders of the “Soft-landing programme for technology and innovation collaboration” of the Hong Kong Science Park (HKSTPC). The purpose of the initiative, supported by our Consulate General in Hong Kong, is to offer universities, research centres and eventual foreign spin-offs a chance to promote and develop their innovative ideas in 5 […]

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Brazil – Arte Pará 2014 opens to registration

Registration has opened for the 33rd edition of Arte Pará, northern Brazil’s largest contemporary art fair, held in the State capital of Belem. The event has the support of our diplomatic network in that Latin American country, and is open to local and foreign artists living in Brazil. Read more, in Italian

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Dei/Sole 24 Ore – Kenya: Marangoni (tyre retreading) joins the market

A new plant for the retreading of tyres for earthmoving equipment near the Nairobi industrial area opened recently. Local investor AutoXpress, the most important Kenyan business in the tyre sector, has imported the entire retreading system from the Italian Marangoni company (checking systems, buffers, packagers and autoclaves), and the plant employs more than 40 persons. […]

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Bolivia – Italy a partner in juvenile justice riform

Ambassador of Italy to La Paz Luigi De Chiara recently attended the opening of the women’s section of the Qalauma rehabilitation centre, financed by the Italian Development Cooperation (DGCS) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as part of efforts to ensure better prisons in Bolivia. Other participants included Bolivian Minister for Justice Elizabeth Sandra Gutierrez […]

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