Argentina – Italian courses in Buenos Aires

The Italian Cultural Institute of Buenos Aires will begin offering its first cycle of 15-week Italian language courses on 10 March. The courses will be divided into regular, intensive and super-intensive. The Institute also offers conversation courses, children’s courses and CILS and CELI exam preparation courses. Italian being one of the most studied languages in […]

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Czech Republic – Italy main protagonist at Prague Carnival

Italy was the main protagonist at the Prague Carnival. Thanks to collaboration with our embassy and Italian Cultural Institute, a cycle of theatrical spectacles and concerts was organised for the Opera Barocca Festival, with the participation of counter tenor Alessandro Giangrande and the accompaniment of the “In vino veritas” ensemble. Read more, in Italian.

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Hong Kong – Carravaggio’s “Supper at Emmaus”

Caravaggio’s masterpiece “Supper at Emmaus” left Milan’s Brera museum for the first time ever for Hong Kong, where it arrived to be part of the exhibition “Light and Shade – Caravaggio, Master of the Italian Baroque” at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center from 12 March to 13 April. The painting, valued at 59 million […]

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Izmir – Italian quartet enchants jazz festival

The Furio di Castri Quartet played at the opening concert the European Jazz Festival in Izmir to an enthusiastic audience of more than a thousand people, and later on in a jam session for a crowd of 400, while Italian jazz history professor at Istanbul’s Bilgi University and the festival’s musical consultant, Francesco Martinelli, held […]

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Valensise: «La parola d’ordine è diplomazia della crescita, anche per la Farnesina» (MF)

A Michele Valensise, segretario generale della Farnesina, il ministero degli Affari Esteri, diplomatico di lungo corso e braccio destro del ministro Emma Bonino, MF Internationd ha chiesto qual è lo stato delle relazioni con uno dei principali mercati di esportazione dell`Italia, il cui interscambio con la Cina ha superato i 40 miliardi di euro. Qual […]

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DEI/Sole 24 Ore – Algeria: surplus commerciale 2013 scende a 2013 mld USD (in translation)

The Algerian customs department recently published preliminary 2013 trade data according to which the trade surplus has been halved as compared with 2012, from 21.49 to 11.05 billion USD. Exports levelled off at 65.9 billion USD, as compared with 71.87 in 2012, a reduction of 8.28% associated with the lower price and export volume of […]

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Crisi Ucraina: ottimo segnale disponibilità Kiev a discutere ampliamento diritti e poteri regioni e minoranze

The Kiev government’s announcement today of its willingness to discuss the broadening of the rights and powers of the country’s regions and minorities is an excellent sign, and one that will require concrete encouragement and follow-up by a contact group, as discussed in Rome last week, with regard to whose formation we expect positive developments. […]

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Ukraine crisis – Mogherini, curbing escalation also with words

“Putin’s military action” in Crimea “is not acceptable, and to be condemned, but we do not wish to contribute, with words or in any other manner, to the military operation spinning out of control; to causing an all out war”. Thus Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini responded in an interview for La Repubblica online […]

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Cooperation – Italian educational project for Palestinian concludes

A 3-year project, promoted by AVSI and financed by the Italian Cooperation, aimed at contributing to the improvement of Palestinian social conditions and encouraging forms of education oriented at dialogue and peace in the cities of Bethlehem, Jericho and East Jerusalem came to an end. The project involved approximately 6,700 students, over 1500 teachers and […]

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Berlin – Palermo’s Teatro Massimo an icon

The Embassy of Italy in Berlin presented the 2015 season of Palermo’s Teatro Massimo as part of a broader range of promotional activities by that venue, an icon of Italian lyric excellence, within the context of the international tourism fair under way in the German capital through Sunday. Read more, in Italian.

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Italy-Hong Kong – Increasingly linked, exports +8%

Good news for relations between Italy and Hong Kong: 2013 trade data confirm an upswing of 8.15% in Italian imports over the previous year, valued at 7.7 billion USD, placing Italy 4th among Hong Kong’s trade partners. Hong Kong was confirmed as Italy’s 3rd in Asia, after China and Japan. Read more, in Italian.

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Mogherini: “Putin deve fermarsi. Nessuno vuole una guerra nel cuore dell’Europa” (La Repubblica)

Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini explained Italy’s position on the Ukraine crisis: “together with the West we can put an end to the escalation”. And Premier Renzi discussed international measures with US President Barack Obama by telephone: possible sanctions against Russia. “Putin has to stop in Ukraine, we cannot risk war in Europe. I […]

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