Italian Economic Diplomacy: Japan: Italian exports perform strongly in 2013

The Italian-Japanese trade figures for 2013 published by Japan’s customs authorities confirm the strong performance of Italian exports. In spite of the weakening of the yen against the euro, our exports rose by 21.8% in yen (and over 8% in real terms). This produced a trade surplus of 4 billion euros for Italy, even though […]

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“Digital Natives”: IT and the Montessori method in the kindergarten – conference at the Farnesina

Teaching information technology (IT) at nursery school to guide children towards an informed use of the new technologies. That is the challenge being tackled by the Farnesina’s Montessori-method kindergarten, which has embarked on an experimental project that was illustrated this morning [14 February 2014] at the “Digital Natives” conference at the Ministry. In his introductory […]

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Italy-Africa Initiative (Farnesina, 20 February 2014)

The session will open with addresses by Foreign Minister Emma Bonino, Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin and the Under-Secretary for Agriculture Policies, Maurizio Martina. The closing address will be given by the Deputy Foreign Minister, Lapo Pistelli. Minister Bonino introduced the Italy-Africa Initiative to the media and to the countries concerned on 30 December 2013. The […]

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Intervento del Sottosegretario Giro a “Più libri più liberi”

(Please check against actual speech delivered) sono lieto di partecipare a questo incontro perché il tema della cultura è centrale nell’azione della diplomazia. La politica estera è più efficace quando è mossa da una visione radicata culturalmente in chi è chiamata ad attuarla. E’ di corto respiro la politica estera istintiva, che si limita a […]

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Angola – 1000 young people helped by Italian Development Cooperation

“Children in safe cities: urban safety and children’s rights”, a 4-year project funded by Italian Development Cooperation and CIES, a non-governmental organisation, is coming to a close. CIES, which this week celebrates its 30th birthday, has been working with Angolan partners on the project. The initiatives have helped over 1000 children and young people through […]

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Cairo – A project to conserve Egyptian art

“Conserving Egyptian art. Training initiatives for the restoration of the Egyptian Museum of Cairo’s collections”. This is the title of the publication illustrating the training initiatives conducted by the Restoration and Conservation Institute from 2008 to 2010 thanks to Italian Development Cooperation funding. About 120 curators, restorers and librarians benefited from the programme, which also […]

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Bangui – Italy sending 400,000 euros in response to the crisis

In response to the grave humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic, Italian Development Cooperation has allocated 400,000 euros to UNICEF to support initiatives to help children. First tranche of a total of 1 million euros This is the first tranche of a total contribution of 1 million euros announced at the donors conference in […]

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Marines: Ban Ki-moon concerned about risks for anti-piracy missions

“United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is worried about the case of two Italian anti-piracy marines facing murder charges in India, and fears it could have some repercussions on anti-piracy security operations and the rule of law”. This was the comment by the United Nations spokesperson, Martin Nesirky, in response to questions from the ANSA news […]

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Kosovo: Valensise meets Director General Prenkaj

Secretary General Michele Valensise received the Director General of Kosovo’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Albert Prenkaj, at the Farnesina today. Bilateral relations, the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina and Kosovo’s pathway to Europe were the main topics for discussion. Over the last few days Prenkaj has met several Foreign Ministry officials, with today’s cordial meeting […]

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Bring our diplomatic network in Africa into line with our potential there, urges Pistelli

“Our foreign policy budget nowadays is peanuts. We can lower our expectations, we can narrow our idea of ‘world’, or we can ensure that our global presence meets our aspirations by equipping it with the necessary resources”. These were the words of Deputy Foreign Minister Lapo Pistelli during the presentation of the report published by […]

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Italian Economic Diplomacy /Sole 24 Ore: Panama: Salini Impregilo and Canal Authority reach preliminary agreement

The long dispute between the Panama Canal Authority and the GUPC consortium seems to have been resolved with yesterday’s preliminary agreement on co-financing the extra costs that arose during the construction of the new locks. The final agreement, to divide the additional 1.6 billion dollars between the Panamanian authorities and the consortium led by Sacyr […]

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Intervento del Sottosegretario Giro: Italia – America Latina e Caraibi: il tempo di un nuovo inizio

(Please check against actual speech delivered) L’America Latina e le sue Patrie vivono un risveglio economico e sociale di rilievo storico e quindi comprensibilmente non privo di sfide. Gli anni novanta hanno visto un impressionante sviluppo economico e un altrettanto significativo consolidamento democratico, cui hanno seguito nel terzo millennio riforme degli assetti istituzionali e esperimenti […]

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