Consulate goes green: photovoltaic installation in Casablanca

The Italian Consulate General has joined the “Green Farnesina” programme designed to promote ever-higher environmental standards and sustainable projects. With the help of sponsorship from Italian companies operating in Morocco, three separate initiatives are now under way to make the Consulate a “laboratory” for sustainable projects. Environmentally harmful emissions reduced by around 32 tons per […]

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Developing the Future – Making technology work for Development Cooperation

Democratisation, crisis management, environmental protection “The opportunities opened up by information and communication technology (ICT) extend to the various spheres of Development Cooperation activity, including democratisation, crisis management, environmental protection, public health, combating poverty and protecting human rights. The system that enables vaccine reminders by phone, the application for reporting violence, the priority and personnel […]

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Exhibitions: Giuseppe Penone, the first Italian to show in Versailles

Giuseppe Penone is the first contemporary Italian artist to show his works in the Palace of Versailles, following in the footsteps of Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Bernar Venet and Joana Vasconcelos. A leading figures in the “arte povera” movement, Penone has created around 20 bronze sculptures of trees, which will remain on display from 11 […]

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Minister Bonino meets National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) delegation

Foreign Minister Emma Bonino met a delegation from the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) at the Farnesina today, 10 June 2013. The delegation was led by the Chairman, Joseph Del Raso. Talks focused on the bonds with the Italian-American community and, more generally, on developing ever-closer links between Italy and the United States in the […]

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Intervista al Ministro Bonino (derStardard.at) (versione originale)

Italiens Außenministerin: EU stärkt Souveränität der Partnerländer Rom/Wien – In jedem Wahlkampf warnen populistische Parteien in ganz Europa vor einem Verlust der eigenen Souveränität durch die EU – ein Gedanke, für den Italiens neue Außen­ministerin Emma Bonino nichts übrighat: “Wir müssen realistisch sein: Heutzutage kann kein europäisches Land wirklich glauben, alles selbst machen zu können”, […]

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MONTREAL – A look at the world of Gianni Amelio

Montreal is getting ready for look at the world of film director Gianni Amelio, with a 13-day retrospective exhibition at the Cinematheque Quebecoise that runs through 23 June and features some of his best known works: “I ragazzi di Via Panisperna”, “Porte Aperte”, “Il Primo Uomo”, “Lamerica”, “Il ladro di bambini” and “Cosi’ ridevano”. Read […]

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ANNOUNCEMENT FOR EDITORS-IN-CHIEF: Exhibition Ireland 404040 – Foreign Ministry, Rome, 13 June 2013, 18.30

The itinerant contemporary art exhibition, “40/40/40”, consisting of works from the Irish State Collection and organised by the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Office of Public Works, opens in Rome at the Farnesina on Thursday 13 June at 18.30. The exhibition comes to Rome, on its third leg after Madrid and Warsaw, […]

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ABU DHABI – Leonardo da Vinci’s machines

Catapults and cannons and even a printing machine, the first mountain pen and bicycle, are just some of the machines born of the genius of Leonardo da Vinci that have captured the imagination of Abu Dhabi in an exhibition entitled ‘Leonardo da Vinci, the genius and his inventions’, at the Hotel Emirates through 5 July. […]

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ARGENTINA – Battiato for the first time in Buenos Aires

Sicily’s eclectic singer-songwriter, musician, director and painter Franco Battiato was in Buenos Aires for the first time on 8 June during his “Open Sesame” international tour. The concert was part of the broader “Verano Italiano”, a series of cultural events to be presented in the Argentine capital through 5 July in the course of a […]

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Minister Emma Bonino instructs Chargé d’affaires of Embassy of Italy in Vienna to intercede with local authorities regarding the case of Viennese pub

On Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino instructions, the Chargé d’affaires of the Embassy of Italy interceded to draw the attention of local authorities to the case of a Viennese pub whose menu referred ironically to Mafia victims such as Giovanni Falcone and Peppino Impasto. As reported by the media, the incident was considered as […]

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Minister Emma Bonino’s condolences on the killing of an Italian soldier in Afghanistan

“The news of the killing of another Italian in Afghanistan is deeply painful for me”, Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino stated. “I wish to extend my profoundest condolences to the family of the fallen serviceman, and my best wishes for the swift recovery of the other military personnel wounded”.

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Morandi’s bottles at the Bozar in Brussels

One hundred still-lives, landscapes and bottles pictures were carefully selected by Maria Cristina Bandera for a retrospective tribute by the Palais des Beaux Arts (BOZAR) in Brussels, capital of Gelgium and of the EU to one of the 20th century’s most celebrated artists. Open to the public from 7 June to 22 September 2013 The […]

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