NOTA DI SERVIZIO PER I REDATTORI CAPO: Recall: Giornata dell’Africa (Farnesina, 27 maggio 2014)

The Italian foreign ministry will hold its annual Africa Day at 10:30 on Tuesday 27 May 2014. The event coincides this year with the 41st anniversary of the Organization of African Unity, which became the African Union in 2002. Minister Federica Mogherini will deliver the opening speech, and Under-Secretary Mario Giro will close the event. […]

Read more

Argentina – The Verano Italiano returns

The “Verano Italiano” is a joint initiative that was created in 2013, and that involves our embassy and consulate general in Buenos Aires, Italian Cultural Institute, ENIT, ICE and the Argentine Ministry of Culture, aimed at celebrating Italian film, music, opera, art and enogastronomy. The official presentation of this year’s edition was given on 26 […]

Read more

Romania – 282 new Italian firms

Trade relations between Italy and Romania are growing steadily stronger. In the first 2 months of 2014, 282 new Italian firms were registered in that Eastern European country according to the Romanian statistics institute. In February Italy placed third among trade partners for social capital, with a 9.6% share of the total, following France and […]

Read more

Mogherini: unica arma il dialogo «Mai più errori come in Libia»

Minister Mogherini, there are several hotspots brewing just outside the gates of Europe. One is Ukraine, where they are holding elections today, as they are in Egypt. You have said that even in this case it is necessary to invest in the common good and work on the creation of win-win situations. Is it enough […]

Read more

Ucraina: Mogherini a Deshchytsia, piena chiarezza su morte

“Full clarity on the attack yesterday that took the lives of Andrea Rochelli and his Russian interpreter Andrey Mironov”: this was Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini’s request in a telephone conversation this afternoon with her Ukraine counterpart Deshchytsia. Mogherini received Deshchytsia’s condolences for the death of Rochelli and assurance of full collaboration on the […]

Read more

Ucraina: Mogherini, grande dolore per morte Rocchelli

Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini expressed distress at the killing of Andrea Rochelli. “The death of journalist Andrea Rochelli is cause for deep pain both for his young age and also because once again the most courageous of the press are made to pay the price”, she asserted. “Up to the last I hoped […]

Read more

Ukraine: Rocchelli confirmed dead

The death of Anrea Rochelli has been confirmed. The body of the journalist was identified by the legal medical authorities in Slaviansk, who made the official announcement after having been in contact with the foreign ministry throughout the night. The Italian embassy in Kiev informed the man’s family and will assist them upon their arrival […]

Read more

Attacco museo ebraico Bruxelles: messaggio di condoglianze del Ministro Mogherini

Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini sent a letter of condolences to her counterpart Didier Reynders after today’s attack at the Jewish museum in Brussels. “I was deeply saddened by the news of the brutal attack at the Jewish museum in Brussels, and of the victims and wounded it left. This is a tragic attack […]

Read more

Uccisione giornalista italiano Andrea Rocchelli a Slaviansk

The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was informed by the Ukraine authorities of the killing of Italian journalist Andrea Rochelli in the area of Sloviansk. Definitive identification is still awaited of the body, which was transferred along with that of a Russian citizen from the hospital in Andreevka to that of Slaviansk a few kilometres […]

Read more

l’Italia condanna l’attentato terroristico nella capitale dello Xinjiang

“Italy condemns the terrorist attack of 22 May in the capital of the Chinese province of Xinjiang that caused over 30 deaths and left at least 90 wounded. As are all acts of violence against civilians, this too is unacceptable and unjustifiable. The Italian government extends its condolences to the government of the People’s Republic […]

Read more

Dei/Sole 24 Ore: United Kingdom: Ansaldo Energia purchases Nuclear Engineering Services

Through Ansaldo Nucleare, Ansaldo Energia purchased 100% of Nuclear Engineering Services (NES), an English company engaged in the largest nuclear decommissioning programme in the United Kingdom. The nearly 36-million-euro purchase is one of the developments announced by the Strategic Italian Fund for Ansaldo Energia on the occasion of the accord with Shanghai Electric which controls […]

Read more

Moscow – A stroll in “Russian Rome” between the centuries

How much Russia was there in 19 and 20th century Rome? We are told in “Passeggiata. La Roma russa. 1870-1920”, an exhibition curated by Bianca Sulpasso and Olga Strada and mounted at the Museum of Moscow by the Italian Cultural Institute with the support of the Italian embassy in Russia, University of Tor Vergata and […]

Read more