THAILAND – Italian food and drink at Thaifex 2013

Italy is present in force at the “THAIFEX – World of food Asia 2013” trade fair in Thailand, which runs until 26 May. The most important food and drink event in Southeast Asia, THAIFEX has attracted over 70 Italian companies. The Italian presence was coordinated by the Italian Trade Promotion Agency (ICE), Federalimentare, Fiere di […]

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International Conference on “Improving responses to organised crime and drug trafficking along the Cocaine Route”

The international conference “Improving responses to organised crime and drug trafficking along the Cocaine Route“, organised by the European Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will be held at the Hotel Plaza in Rome at 9:30 on Tuesday 28 May. The conference will open with speeches […]

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Pistelli: «Per noi la Cooperazione è una risorsa, non un lusso»

«Non esiste più solo la vecchia cooperazione bilaterale a dono, dobbiamo dare coerenza ad un set di politiche di sviluppo che non passano più solo da Roma». A sostenerlo è Lapo Pistelli, vice ministro degli Esteri con una delega «pesante»: quella alla Cooperazione internazionale. In questa intervista a l`Unità, Pistelli delinea le linee-guida della sua […]

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MESSICO – Il golf ambasciatore dell’imprenditoria italiana (in translation)

Successo in Messico per la quarta edizione del torneo di golf Italia-Ferrari. L’evento si e’ svolto presso il Club “Los Encinos” (Stato di Messico), ed e’ stato organizzato dalla Camera di Commercio Italiana in Messico in collaborazione con l’ambasciata italiana nel paese americano. Hanno fornito il loro sostegno la casa di Maranello e numerosi marchi […]

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ITALY-POLAND – meeting on role of President of the Republic

Warsaw’s Leon Kozminski University has hosted an Italian-Polish meeting on “The President of the Republic in Italy and in Poland”. The event, which enjoyed the patronage of President Giorgio Napolitano and President Bronisław Maria Komorowski, was organised by the University’s Law School and the Italian-Polish Association of Constitutional Lawyers. Speaking at the opening session, Italian […]

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FORUM PA 2013: Europe closer to citizens as we approach the 2014 elections

Democratic deficit and strategies to bring citizens closer to the EU, in the run-up to the European elections in 2014. Those were the features of the Europe that emerged from today’s conference on “The European Union, European Citizenship, European Democracy: the position one year before the European elections in 2014”, organised by the Ministry of […]

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The Conference: ‘European integration: an assessment’

The conference will be an opportunity to assess one of the crucial challenges to European integration: ensuring that European citizens can identify with their institutions through instruments guaranteeing decision-making processes based on transparency and participatory democracy. This means that fully applying the principle of European citizenship, in its widest sense, is vital to achieving full […]

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Cooperation: new help for the Palestinian people

Chaired for the first time by Minister Emma Bonino, Italian Development Cooperation’s steering committee has approved three important contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). The funding is intended for initiatives on behalf of the Palestinian people. Assistance for refugees Two of the contributions concern emergency initiatives. The first, worth 1.5 million […]

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Syria: in Amman for the Geneva Conference – Friends of Syria meeting: opposition must act responsibly, says Bonino

To find a political solution to the crisis, Italy fully supports the idea of organising a “Geneva 2” international conference that brings all of the interested parties to the same table. It will be vital, in this respect, to strengthen the Syrian opposition coalition at both the political and concrete levels. That was the position […]

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BRAZIL – The Italian economic presence illustrated in booklet form

Italy has illustrated its economic-commercial presence in Brazil in the form of a booklet called “Il contributo dell’Italia allo sviluppo economico del Brasile”. The booklet was produced by our Embassy in Brasilia in collaboration with the Bank of Italy’s financial attaché. Written in both Italian and Portuguese, the booklet summarises the main Italian economic fundamentals […]

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TURKMENISTAN – Italian trade mission

An Italian trade mission to Turkmenistan began on 20 May 2013. The initiative was organised by our Embassy in Moscow with support from the Italian Trade Promotion Agency (ICE) and Confindustria. The delegation, led by Ambassador Antonio Zanardi Landi, met the Deputy Premier and advisers to the President on the gas and oil industry, Yagshygeldi […]

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JAPAN – Italian exports booming: up 33.5%

Italian exports to Japan are booming, with the first three months of the year seeing an increase of 33.5% year-on-year, and of 9.8% on the previous quarter. Commenting on the trade figures published by the Japanese Finance Ministry, the Italian Embassy in Tokyo underscored that our exports are notably higher that the European average for […]

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