Munich Conference: Focus on global security

The Syrian crisis, the Middle East Peace Process, the nuclear dossier and security in the digital age. As happens every year, the Munich Security Conference, now in its 50th year, will focus on the “hottest” issues on the international agenda. The Conference, which began today, 31 January 2014, will see the participation of around 90 […]

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Italian Economic Diplomacy – 31 January: latest news from around the world. Service provided in collaboration with Il Sole 24 ORE Radiocor

An letter of intent was signed in Rome today by Turkey’s Yeni Basak Energy (a subsidiary of the US Sun Group) and Italy’s Turboden (Organic Rankine Cycle Turbo-generators), controlled by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The agreement was signed in the margins of the Matching Italy-Turkey economic forum organised by Network Globale to coincide with the State […]

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Syria: UN Contact Group at Farnesina – Bonino: Humanitarian catastrophe, aid access and civilian security

Syria is experiencing the “worst humanitarian crisis of our times” and it is the “shame of the international community” that aid is being kept out of the region. Minister Bonino’s harsh words were spoken from Rome, where the UN held a meeting of 19 countries to make a univocal appeal for access to food, water […]

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Arctic frontiers 2014

Dedicated to “Humans in the Arctic”, the 8th edition of Arctic Frontiers has taken place in Tromsø, with a significant contribution from Italy. Keynote speaker Giorgio Novello, the Italian Ambassador to Norway and Iceland, pointed out Italy’s strong links with the Arctic, which recently led to our obtaining Permanent Observer status in the Arctic Council. […]

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Niger – Future customs police officers trained in Italy

The training course organised at the Finance Police’s Training and Specialisation Centre (CAS) in Orvieto for customs police officers from the Republic of Niger has come to a close. The course ran from 13 to 30 January. Organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it was designed to strengthen the institutions in countries […]

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Speech by Minister Bonino at IBAC Italy 2014 (original version)

(Please check against actual speech delivered) Ladies and gentlemen, I am delighted to welcome you at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for this “special edition” of the International Business Advisory Committee. As I mentioned yesterday evening at Villa Madama, your presence here represents for us a sign of trust to our country. We value this […]

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Theatre: The drama of migration – preview performance at the Italian Embassy in Paris

The 18th century “Sicilian Theatre” in the Italian Embassy in Paris was the splendid setting for the preview of the play by Sicilian writer Lina Prosa, “Lampedusa Beach”, on the dramatic situation of migrants in the Mediterranean region. The event will be broadcast by Canal + France in its “Le Supplement” programme. Read more, in […]

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Speech by Minister Bonino at the Conference on the Death Penalty – Sierra Leone (original version)

(Please check against actual speech delivered) This is the third African conference on the death penalty organized by “Hands Off Cain” to gain consent in the continent for the adoption of a moratorium on executions. I wish that, as it happened after Libreville in 2007 and Kigali in 2011, more African countries will put the […]

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Abu Dhabi: GSE presents “E-Qbo” at Sustainability Week

Italy was present at Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2014 with a pavilion at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES). The “E-Qbo” project was a notable success. The fruit of a collaboration by RSE (the research company linked to energy services operator GSE) and T-Red, a start-up company, the E-Qbo is a an off-grid cube clad […]

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“Matching Italy–Turkey” – Ankara enriches the European project, says Bonino

The EU-Turkey negotiations have been blocked for too long by “a stalemate that’s been of no use to anyone, either the EU itself or Turkey”. This was Foreign Minister Emma Bonino’s comment at the “Matching Italy–Turkey” conference organised by Network Globale in collaboration with the Ministries for Foreign Affairs and Economic Development and the two […]

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Remembrance Day: Roberto Faenza’s film “Anita B.”, inspired by Edith Bruck’s book, is screened in Jerusalem

Roberto Faenza’s film “Anita B.” was screened at the Jerusalem Film Archive yesterday, 26 January, to mark Remembrance Day. This was the first screening outside Italy of the film, based on Edith Bruck’s autobiographical book “Quanta stella c’è nel cielo”. Organised by the Italian Cultural Institute and its Director, Simonetta De Felicis, the screening was […]

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Angola – Writer’s Union to publish book by Ambassador Mistretta, its first foreign author

The Angolan Writer’s Union is to publish “Nel paese chiamato alberi”, by the Italian Ambassador to Angola, Giuseppe Mistretta. This will be the first book by a foreign writer published by the Union. Ambassador Mistretta, who is also the author of “Un ponte lungo quattro secoli”, on Italian-Angolan relations, plans to have both books translated […]

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