Giro: “Il Brasile di Dilma è l’occasione per pensare agli italiani nel mondo“ (Limes)

LIMES In Brasile a ottobre ci saranno le elezioni presidenziali. Dilma Rousseff rivincerà? GIRO Dilma sta risalendo nei sondaggi, la nuova classe media creata da oltre un decennio di politiche luliste è rassicurata. La presidente ha accelerato sui piani sociali, ovunque vengono inaugurati grandi lavori. La concessione di infrastrutture ai privati darà frutti tra qualche […]

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Italy-USA – “Energy And Infrastructure” seminar in Washington

The “Global Executive Seminar on Energy and Infrastructure”, an event focusing on technological innovation in the energy and infrastructure field, took place in Washington on Saturday 1 March 2014. The event was hosted by the Italian Embassy. Participants in the seminar, opened by Italian Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero, included the Vice President of the Edison Foundation, […]

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Della Vedova a Panel Onu su flussi immigrazione

The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Benedetto Della Vedova, has attended a high-level Panel on the protection of migrants’ human rights organised during the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The event was organised at the initiative of the African group at the United Nations. The great majority of migratory flows by sea is directed […]

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Cile – Onorificenza per l’ambasciatore Stefano Ronca (in translation)

L’ambasciatore cileno in Italia, Oscar Godoy Arcaya, ha inaugurato oggi a Roma la nuova sede diplomatica di Santiago del Cile, soddisfacendo cosi’ l’antica aspirazione cilena di avere una sede di proprieta’ in Italia.La cerimonia si e’ svolta alla presenza del ministro degli Esteri cileno, Alfredo Moreno Charme, che, sottolineando il profondo legame tra i due […]

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Il concorso per diplomatici – La lettera

Quando si sbaglia è giusto riconoscere lealmente il proprio errore. Specie se questo errore è stato commesso in pubblico, a scapito di enti o persone che a causa di quell`errore hanno visto colpito davanti a tutti il loro nome e il loro prestigio. Un errore del genere è quello da me commesso – e a […]

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“School for Diplomacy” for young women from Mediterranean countries

The second edition of the “Women in Diplomacy School” began today at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The event, opened by the Secretary General at the Ministry, Michele Valensise, also saw the participation of Kosovo’s Foreign Minister, Vlora Çitaku, and Poland’s Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Henryka Moscicka-Dendys. Twenty young women working in diplomacy or politics […]

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Seven refugees from Camp Hurriya (formerly Camp Ashraf) received by Italy

As part of the humanitarian effort by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs together with the Ministry for Home Affairs, 7 Iranian refugees arrived in Italy today from Camp Hurriya, in Iraq. Their arrival in our country is a response to the numerous appeals by the United Nations to find an agreed solution, one that is […]

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Giro: congratulazioni a Sorrentino per l’Oscar. Cultura e lingua strategici per ruolo Italia

“Congratulations to Paolo Sorrentino, who has once again shown, with the Oscar for his film ‘La Grande Bellezza’, just how much demand for Italy there is in the world”. The comment was made by the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mario Giro, on hearing of the Italian director’s success in Los Angeles. “Italy attracts people for […]

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Marines: Pillay (UN) expresses concern for human rights

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, is concerned about respect for human rights since the two Italian marines, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, have been detained in India for too long. Her views were reported today by her spokesperson, Rupert Corville, after her meeting with the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Benedetto […]

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“We the people of Ukraine”

A fiery image that evokes the outcome of a democratic revolution fills the front page of issue 36 of “Longitude”, the journal edited by Pialuisa Bianco and hitting news-stands on 6 March. “We the people of Ukraine” is the headline of this issue, packed with reports on international policy issues and with the focus on […]

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Italian Economic Diplomacy/Sole 24 Ore: USA: Trevi wins contracts worth 50 million dollars

Trevicos, a division of the Trevi Group, has won the contract for extraordinary maintenance works on the Bolivar Dam in Ohio (USA), a project worth about 44 million dollars, announced the Group. Trevi has also won a 6 million dollar contract to consolidate a dam for a mining site in Wyoming. Source: Il Sole 24 […]

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Archaeology – Italian-Iraqi campaign to “dig the future”

The Italian-Iraqi archaeology mission in Abu Tbeirah in southern Iraq, coordinated by Professor Franco D’Agostino, from Università La Sapienza di Roma, is not just a scientific project. It’s also an adventure in a land very different from Italy, a land that’s seeking a way out from over 40 years of war. The latest dig focuses […]

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