Common messages aimed at raising awareness among EU citizens and businesses regarding involvement in financial and economic activities in the settlements

“The European Union and its Member States consider that Israeli settlements are illegal under international law, constitute an obstacle to peace and threaten to make a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict impossible. The EU and its Member States will not recognise any changes to the pre-1967 borders, including with regard to Jerusalem, other than […]

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NOTA DI SERVIZIO PER I REDATTORI CAPO: Conf. stampa Mogherini-Asselborn-Rinkēvičs (Farnesina, 30 giugno 2014)

On Monday 30 June, Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini will meet at the foreign ministry in Rome with her colleagues from Luxembourg and Latvia, Jean Asselborn and Edgars Rinkēvičs. The meeting will be followed by a joint press conference at approximately 14:30 during which the Trio of the Presidency of the Council of the […]

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Dei/Sole 24 Ore – Spagna: 21% Aena a privati con gara 28% in Borsa (in translation)

Il Governo spagnolo ha annunciato che la parziale privatizzazione dell’ente statale di gestione aeroportuale AENA avverra’ attraverso il collocamento del 21% presso un nucleo stabile di azionisti privati e per il 28% tramite collocamento in Borsa. La prima operazione avverra’ tramite gara pubblica che si dovrebbe tenere in settembre. La quotazione in Borsa e’ prevista […]

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UN – 1000 young people in Rome for diplomacy simulation

On Monday, 30 June, Rome will welcome the over 1000 young people from 100 countries who will be participating in Wimun 2014, the United Nations’ largest international youth simulation event, for which Italy has the global exclusive. The event runs from 30 June to 4 July and offers secondary school and university students a chance […]

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Haifa – Children’s reading labs

To bring children from 3 to 12 years old closer to literature and creativity by guiding them in the discovery of the world around them through the most varied of instruments – this was the aim of the Italian Cultural Institute of Haifa, which organised a highly successful cycle of 8 laboratories for Italian and […]

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Scotland – Italy commemorates war prisoners held in the Orkneys

Italy commemorated the prisoners of Scotland’s Orkney Islands. Our ambassador in London, Pasquale Terracciano, participated in a ceremony in Kirkwall dedicated to the Italian prisoners captured in Egypt during the Second World War and interred on the island in “Camp 60”. The ambassador was accompanied by the Italian Consul General in Edinburgh Carlo Perrotta and […]

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Growth Diplomacy – Cuba presents itself to Italy, events in Rome and Milan

UNIDO ITPO Italy and ICE, with the patronage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the Ministry of Economic Development (MISE), have joined forces with the Embassy of Cuba in Rome toorganise presentations on new legislation on foreign investments and business opportunities in Cuba. The two events, one on 30 June in Rome and […]

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ACCREDITATION NOTICE – Correction – Ministers Mogherini and Steinmeier – Civitella Val Di Chiana – AR (29 June 2014)

On Sunday, 29 June 2014, Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini and her German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier will take part in the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Nazi massacre at Civitella Val di Chiana, Cornia and San Pancrazio on 29 June 1944. The joint presence of the foreign ministers of Italy and Germany […]

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Canada – Montreal dedicates retrospective to Paolo Virzi’

The Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal dedicated a retrospective to celebrated filmmaker Paolo Virzì, who has had a string of successes over recent years that include his latest effort “Il capitale umano”, winner of the Donatello Prize. Read more, in Italian.

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Pistelli hails Italian Senate approval of cooperation reform

For the first time in many years, a parliamentary house has approved a text outlining a Italian Cooperation reform that modernises Italian official development assistance by providing more effective instruments and promoting cooperation as an “integral and qualifying part” of foreign policy. “In all these years of attempts, discussion, debate and efforts both inside and […]

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Mogherini at NATO ministers meeting – Ukraine and Iraq dominate talks

The situation in Iraq is a threat to the security and stability not only of that country but of the entire Middle East and Euro-Atlantic region. Consequently, the foreign ministers of NATO meeting in Brussels agreed on the need to concentrate on a political approach, as Minister Federica Mogherini asserted during a pause in the […]

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Diplomazia Economica Italiana – 25 June: Latest World News, compiled in collaboration with Il Sole 24 ORE Radiocor

Cuba: Seminar in Rome on new investment lawAt the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome on 30 June, and at Milan’s Auditorium Centro Congressi Corridoni on July 1st, there will be a presentation of the new law on foreign investments in Cuba and business opportunities. The event’s joint organisers include the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, […]

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