Dei/Sole 24 ore – Algeria: IMF positive, 2.7%growth in 2013

Upon conclusion of an assessment mission to Algeria, IMF delegation head Zeine Zeidane issued a preliminary press statement outlining a overall positive assessment of the macroeconomic picture there, with GDP up 2.7% and government measures having brought inflation under control (4.5% in October, against 8.9% in 2012) wiped out the public deficit. Positive also is […]

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Italy-Latin America, shared strategy for growth – Bonino calls for coordinate responses to global challenges

Growth, territorial development and sustainable policies, cooperation between SMEs: the three macro-headings of the sessions of the 6th Italy-Latin America and Caribbean Conference, opened today at the foreign ministry in Rome by Minister Emma Bonino. The conference runs through Friday and its participants include a large number of Central and South American ministers and representatives […]

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Italy-USA – Symposium in Washington on Levi Montalcini

“I am not my body. I am my mind”, is the title of a symposium organised by the Embassy of Italy in Washington on the first anniversary of her death. The seminar will concentrate on the social changes that medical research can generate over the coming decade, and falls within the context of 2013 – […]

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Jerusalem: Botticelli celebrated in music

Jerusalem at the Museum of Israel before the great master’s famous fresco “The Annunciation” (on loan from the Uffizi Gallery), which will remain on display through 10 February. Diplomats – including Italian ambassador to Israel Francesco Maria Talo’ – joined business persons, artists and others from cultural spheres despite the bad weather to meet in […]

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Los Angeles – L’arte italiana diventa 2.0 (in translation)

L’arte italiana a Los Angeles diventa 2.0. Il merito e’ di una nuova applicazione, “Italy Art LA” e del relativo sito web (www.italyartla.com), che permetteranno agli utenti di scoprire l’arte italiana nella citta’ californiana grazie a un sistema basato sulla geolocalizzazione e attraverso una varieta’ di strumenti, quali una piantina personalizzata ed interattiva, testi scritti, […]

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Great Britain – ‘Primo Approdo’ for young Italians in London

The project “Primo Approdo”, offering assistance and guidance to young Italians moving to England and Wales for work or study, will get under way on 8 January 2014. Workshops will be held three times a month at the Consulate General of Italy in London on a variety of pertinent themes, and a manual drafted by […]

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Istanbul – Appuntamento con il cinema italiano (in translation)

‘Appuntamento con il Cinema Italiano a Istanbul’: si intitola così la rassegna cinematografica che per una settimana ha catalizzato l’attenzione dei cinefili nella metropoli turca. L’iniziativa, organizzata dall’Istituto italiano di cultura e dall’Istituto Luce Cinecitta’, in collaborazione con l’Ambasciata italiana ad Ankara e il Consolato generale d’Italia a Istanbul, ha visto la proiezione in anteprima […]

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Riga – Italy showcases the best in interior design

The city of Riga offered the setting for an event promoting Italian contemporary interior design organised by the Embassy in Latvia in collaboration with the ICE office in Stockholm. Read more, in Italian.

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Memorandum of Understanding for Italian and Latin American SMEs signed today at 6th Italy-Latin America and Caribbean Conference. Giro cites growing demand for Italy

The time has come to export the Italian small and medium sized enterprise model to a growing Latin America, because that sub-continent could be one of the keys to Italian economic recovery. To that end a memorandum of understanding was signed today by the Ministry of Economic Development and Italo-Latin American Institute (IILA) for the […]

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Afghanistan: Bamiyan conservation, experts’ meeting concludes in Orvieto

Over 60 international experts and Afghani government representatives met in Orvieto for the 12th work group meeting for the preservation of the Bamiyan World Heritage Site. The meeting, organised by UNESCO and ISPRA, with the contribution of the Italian and Japanese governments, made it possible for the participants to discuss a series of questions regarding […]

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Diplomazia economica italiana / Sole 24 ore: Turchia: record storico esportazioni in novembre (in translation)

Secondo quanto annunciato dall‟associazione degli esportatori turchi (TIM), la Turchia ha raggiunto un volume di export pari a 13,8 miliardi di dollari lo scorso novembre. In termini assoluti, si tratta del dato mensile più elevato nella storia del Paese e segna un incremento di ben 8,8% rispetto al novembre dello scorso anno, principalmente grazie ai […]

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EU: committed to a new “shared development grammar”, says Pistelli

Deputy Foreign Minister Pistelli participated in a meeting of the Development Council in Brussels, during which he spoke on the strategic goals of the post-2015 agenda, post-MDGs and the EU’s position in the multilateral negotiating process of the United Nations; on EU resources for aid to developing countries from 2014 to 2020 following the European […]

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