Immigration: Foreign Affairs and Home Affairs Working Group with Bonino and Alfano – Joint press release

Foreign Minister Emma Bonino and the Deputy Premier and Minister for Home Affairs, Angelino Alfano, co-chaired a meeting of the Foreign Affairs-Home Affairs Working Group at the Farnesina today, 7 November 2013. Discussion focused on the many aspects of migration and the development of a strategy to prevent the recurrence of tragedies like the one […]

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From Fabriano to Prague – “Planet Paper in the Third Millennium” exhibition

The world of paper, from the manufacturing process to its use in art, will be the subject of an exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute in Prague opening on 8 November 2013. “Planet Paper in the Third Millennium. Its origins in the Marches. Paper and Fabriano” was organised by Centro Studi Marche (Cesma) with help […]

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Italy-China – Agricultural tourism brings new opportunities for collaboration

Establishing a global network of “agritourism” districts. That is thegoal of the first World Agritourism Development Forum which took place recently in Changsha, in China. Italy, considered to be the world’s leading country for agricultural tourism, was represented by the Under-Secretary for Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policy, Maurizio Martina,the mayors of 5 Italian towns and […]

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Brazil – The best of the Venice Film Festival comes to Brazil’s cinema screens

The 9th Venice Film Week starts today, 7 November 2013, in Brazil, the fruit of a collaboration between our Embassy, TIM, the Italian Cultural Institutes in SãoPaolo and Rio de Janeiro, our consulates in Belo Horizonte and Curitiba and the Venice Biennale. A selection of films from the 70th Venice Film Festival will be shown […]

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Intervento del Vice Ministro agli Affari Esteri Marta Dassù alla Riunione dei Ministri degli Affari Esteri dell’Iniziativa Centro-Europea – InCE (original version)

(Please check against actual speech delivered) Ministers, Colleagues, Secretary General of the Central European Initiative, Ambassadors, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, I appreciate the format of today’s Meeting, which facilitates a concrete exchange of views on the main topics of interest of our Countries. We will in fact adopt significant decisions and recommendations for the […]

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Combating Europe’s mood of decline: in pursuing growth, the EU is a good starting point

“The European dimension is the most immediate one, and the most appropriate, in which to pursue growth”. This was the message sent out by Foreign Minister Emma Bonino during the conference on “Combatting Europe’s mood of decline. A new vision for Italian business”. The event, which took place at the Acquario Romano premises, was organised […]

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NOTA DI SERVIZIO PER I REDATTORI CAPO: Recall – Cerimonia di passaggio della Torcia dell’Universiade Invernale del 2013 (Farnesina, 7 novembre 2013)

Giovedì 7 novembre, alle ore 16.30, nel piazzale della Farnesina, accanto alla scultura di Pomodoro, un Comitato d’onore del Ministero degli Affari Esteri, presieduto dal Sottosegretario Mario Giro, accoglierà il passaggio della Torcia dell’Universiade Invernale del 2013. La Federazione Internazionale dello Sport Universitario ha assegnato all’Italia la XXVI Universiade Invernale, che avrà luogo in Trentino […]

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Montreal – Three young Italian sopranos performing in Gala Concert

Three young Italian opera singers will be performing in Montreal, at the 20th Concert Gala Benefice des Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques. The three sopranos, Chiara Mogini, Federica Spatola and Veronica Lazzeri, will also be taking part in the 20th edition of the Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques International Youth Programme organised by Théâtre Lyrichorégra 20. The events are […]

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Washington – Italian Embassy pays homage to veterans

A Grand Night at the Opera to pay homage to wounded American veterans. On Saturday 2 November Finmeccanica and the Italian Embassy in Washington honoured about 100 military personnel, and their families and health professionals, from the Walter Reed National Medical Center, Fort Meade and Fort Belvoir. The concert, now in its 5th consecutive year, […]

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Persepolis – Important archaeological discovery by Italian-Iranian team

The Italian-Iranian archaeological mission in Persepolis has announced an important find: a rectangular tower probably dating from the period of Cyrus the Great (6th century BC). Toll-e Ajur (the hill of bricks), where the tower, probably a religious building, was found, is a few kilometres from Persepolis itself. As the Italian Ambassador, Luca Giansanti, commented, […]

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EU ITC experts meet in Brussels

The heads of Europe’s foreign ministry ICT departments have held their first meeting, in Brussels. The event arose from the need to compare notes on common issues that have a supra-national dimension and could benefit from a collaborative approach by EU countries. Attendees were particularly interested in the presentations on best practices that could be […]

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Tripoli – An exhibition on the dramatic situation of Syrians in Libya

“Faraway Syria”, an exhibition providing an overview of Syria’s neighbours and focusing on the difficult living conditions of the thousands of refugees and asylum seekers in Libya, has opened in Tripoli. The exhibition was organised by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) with the support and patronage of the Italian Embassy and Cultural Institute and the […]

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