Incidents in Warsaw: Embassy making extraordinary efforts to ensure Italian nationals are released as soon as possible

“The circumstances leading to the arrest of the Lazio fans and the Polish judicial authorities’ decision to hold 22 people for trial certainly need to be investigated. I wish to clarify, however, that over 100 people were arrested and taken to various police stations in Warsaw and our Embassy is making an extraordinary effort to […]

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Nota Frnesina Tifosi laziali a Varsavia

“About 60 Lazio fans are still under arrest and are being held for summary trial by the Polish judicial authorities. We cannot rule out the possibility that some of them have been deprived of their personal freedom for committing offences of varying degrees of gravity. I have instructed our Ambassador in Poland to speak to […]

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Farnesina: Italy re-elected to the Executive Commitment of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO)

Since 1948, Italy has been one of the 10 leading states in global maritime transport in terms of size of merchant fleet. The General Assembly of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) met this morning, 29 November 2013, in London. The Assembly re-elected Italy, by acclamation, to Category A of the executive Council, reserved for the […]

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Diplomazia Economica/Sole 24 Ore – Malta: opportunità per gestione rifiuti ed energie rinnovabili (in translation)

Il governo Maltese ha definito una strategia nazionale nel settore dei rifiuti che potrà avvalersi anche dei contributi del Fondo di coesione europeo. Secondo le ultime statistiche pubblicate dall’Agenzia Europea dell’Ambiente, Malta è tra i Paesi dell’Unione Europea che producono la maggior quantità di rifiuti pro capite (circa 600 kg l’anno contro una media europea […]

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Valensise at the 125th anniversary of the German Historical Institute

Deeply rooted relations that the two countries’ traditional collaboration could be made even stronger in the future. This was the message of foreign ministry secretary-general Ambassador Michele Valensise’s speech at the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the German Historical Institute (DHI) in Rome, founded in 1888. Oldest of German Historical Institutes abroad The Rome […]

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Speech by Minister Bonino at the presentation of the 2013 World Energy Outlook of the International Energy Agency

(Please check against actual speech delivered) Sono lieta di partecipare oggi a questo incontro in occasione della presentazione in Italia dell’edizione 2013 del World Energy Outlook (WEO), importante appuntamento per tutti gli operatori, pubblici e privati, impegnati a diverso titolo nel settore dell’energia. Ringrazio dunque l’ENI per aver organizzato questo momento di dibattito e mi […]

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Speech by Minister Bonino at the conference ”Afghanistan 2014 year of change: status and prospects of Afghan women”(italian only)

(fa fede solo il testo effettivamente pronunciato) Vorrei innanzitutto ringraziare la Camera dei Deputati per aver voluto ospitare questo Seminario, promosso da ActionAid e sostenuto dalla Cooperazione italiana, al fine di discutere della condizione femminile in Afghanistan, il cui miglioramento costituisce uno degli obiettivi fondamentali dell’azione di ricostruzione che le istituzioni afghane, la Comunità internazionale […]

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Riga – The jazz of Rita Marcotulli

The city of Riga fell under the spell of the jazz of Rita Marcotulli, Italian pianist and composer who offered an unusual and variegated concert in the Latvian capital to an audience of over 300. Those attending included the Italian ambassador and other diplomats, the representative of the European Commission, the deans of the academy […]

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Vienna – Italian delicacies aid to diplomacy

The Italian embassy in Austria hosted a recent promotional event for food and wine products, which was organised by the Chamber of Commerce of Pavia and the Agenzia Sviluppo Pavia, with the collaboration of the Vienna ICE office. Read more, in Italian.

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Bruxelles – Beccalli Falco wins 2013 Italia-Europa Prize

Ferdinando “Nani” Beccalli Falco was the winner of the 2013 Italia-Europa Prize for his commitment to the competitiveness of Italian and European industry. The award ceremony was held at the residence of the Italian ambassador to Brussels, Alfredo Bastianelli. Read more, in Italian.

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Italo-Turkish summit: Dassu’ in Istanbul

Deputy Foreign Minister Marta Dassù will meet in Istanbul today with Turkish Minister for European Affairs Egemen Bağis. The meeting will offer an opportunity to prepare the 3rd Italo-Turkish intergovernmental summit to be held in Istanbul on 17 January. Their talks will touch on principal European concerns, such as the enlargement process and EU-Turkish relations within […]

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Rome – Constantine and the Edict of Tolerance at the Markets of Trajan

A man who 1700 years ago had already understood the value of tolerance: that was how Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino described Constantine, Emperor of the Western World, during the opening of the exhibition “’Konstantin. The Edict of Constantine 1700 years later. Works by Veliko Mihajlovic’ at the Markets of Trajan in Rome. Bonino, […]

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