First meeting between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and senior representatives of international law organisations based in Italy

“Together for human rights, the rule of law and governance”. That is how the first meeting between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and senior representatives of the international law organisations based in Italy could be summed up. The meeting, which took place at the Farnesina, was chaired by Secretary General Michele Valensise. Under-Secretary Mario Giro […]

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Dei/Sole 24 Ore – Pakistan: UNIDO Forum on the country’s investment opportunities

Exploring Pakistan’s potential as a market for investment. That’s the goal of the Italy-Pakistan Business Forum taking place in Lahore and Islamabad from 19 to 21 May 2014 as part of the “UNIDO-SMEDA-Italy Programme”. To deepen and build on the existing commercial links between the two countries, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is […]

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A Journey to Italy – Open House at the Embassy of Italy in Washington

On Saturday, May 10, the Embassy of Italy, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington DC, will open its doors to the public for the annual European Union Embassies’ Open House (#EUOpenHouse). The event, in which all the EU member states’ embassies in the American capital take part, always attracts large numbers of […]

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Taiwan – Italian artists featured at the Ceramics Biennale

The 2014 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale opened recently at the Ceramics Museum in Yingge. The event features the work of 30 artists from 20 countries, with 3 Italian ceramists – Francesco Ardini, Nicola Boccini and Pierluigi Pompei – exhibiting in the Cyber Ceramic & Digital Materialities section. Mario Palma, head of the Italian Economic, Trade and […]

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Buenos Aires – “Cinema Made in Italy” opens on Thursday 8 May

The first edition of “Cinema Made in Italy” will be taking place in Buenos Aires from 8 May until 15 May 2014. The festival features recent Italian productions including Gianfranco Rosi’s “Sacro Gra”, which won the 2013 Leone d’Oro prize in Venice, and “Via Castellana Bandiera”, for which Elena Cotta won best actress prize in […]

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Australia – Italian artist featured in Sydney Biennale

The Biennale of Sydney, which runs until 9 June 2014, features the work of Italian artist Rosa Barba, who creates atmospheric installations using film, sculpture and film publications. Born in Agrigento, Sicily, the artist now lives in Berlin. Read more, in Italian.

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Prague – Italian culture, from Simone Ghera to “Sacro GRA”

The Baroque Chapel at the Italian Cultural Institute in Prague is hosting events showcasing Italian art and culture. Exhibitions include “Florence and Tuscany in Prague. Images and documents from the Habsburg-Lorena Archive” and “Dancer Inside Prague”, featuring photographs of the Czech National Ballet’s soloists by Italian architect and photographer Simone Ghera. The Institute also organised […]

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Ministero Affari Esteri e Expo Milano 2015 presentano in anteprima a Roma la partecipazione dell’ONU all’Esposizione Universale

On Wednesday 7 May Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini and the Government’s Commissioner for Expo Milano 2015, Giuseppe Sala, will host a joint event in Rome presenting a “preview” of the United Nations organisations’ participation in the Universal Exposition, in honour of the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon. “In 2015, a year that will see the […]

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Italia-Francia – Hollande ospite all’Ambasciata italiana a Parigi (in translation)

Speciale presenza del Presidente della Repubblica francese, François Hollande, all’Ambasciata d’Italia a Parigi, dove l’Ambasciatore Giandomenico Magliano ha organizzato una serata per l’Institut de France, alla vigilia dell’insediamento del senatore a vita Mario Monti quale membro straniero associato della prestigiosa Accademia delle Scienze Morali e Politiche, una delle sezioni dell’Institut.

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Ukraine: Mogherini urges Lavrov to halt the clashes and resuscitate the Geneva agreement

Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini had a long conversation with her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in the margins of the Council of Europe meeting in Vienna. The two foreign ministers discussed the situation in Ukraine, the on-going crises in Syria and Libya, and the international mobilisation to free the schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria. Minister Mogherini stressed […]

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Dei/Sole 24 Ore – Russia: Saipem wins new South Stream contract

Russia: Saipem wins new South Stream contract South Stream Transport (a joint venture composed of Gazprom, with 50%, Eni (20%), French company EdF (15%) and Germany’s BASF-Wintershall, with 15%) has announced that it has awarded Saipem a contract worth 400 million euros. The contract envisages the supply of engineering works and technical support for the […]

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Council of Europe: Mogherini meets Lavrov – “Russia and Ukraine must undertake to implement the Geneva agreements”

Russia, like Ukraine, must “undertake to implement the points contained in the Geneva agreement, because there is no alternative to dialogue”. The comment was made by Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini, who met her Russian opposite number in the margins of the Council of Europe ministerial in Vienna. “Russia too”, she added, “must play its part […]

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