Bonino in Strasbourg for Council of Europe Ministers Committee Meeting

Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino is in Strasbourg today for a meeting of the Council of Europe Ministers Committee, a meeting dedicated to the reforms the organization must undertake in order to strengthen its efforts in defence of democracy, human rights and the rule of law in its 47 Member countries. After her address, […]

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TOKYO – Meeting on Italo-Japanese space cooperation

The Italian Cultural Institute of Tokyo yesterday hosted the seminar “Italy and Japan: Space Cooperation Frontiers”, centred on the cooperative partnership that has been developing over recent years in the sectors of the use of the International Space Station (ISS), earth observation for monitoring natural disasters and space science. Considering that the two countries are […]

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ANGOLA – italian centre fights bovine disease

Italy goes to work in Angola to fight infectious bovine diseases: The ‘G.Caporale’ Istituto zooprofilattico of Teramo is starting up an ambitious programme for the treatment of sick cattle and improvement of slaughtering conditions. The main goal is to weaken the bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) that seems to be infecting the Angolan provinces of Huila, Cunene […]

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Japan – Over 300,000 visitors for Raphael

Italian exhibitions have been attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors: the Raphael exhibition at Tokyo’s National Museum of Western Art, which remains open through 2 June has already drawn 300,000 visitors. Large crowds also for the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum’s showing of Leonardo masterpieces from Milan’s Ambrosiana Library, which has welcomed 55,000 visitors since its […]

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Italy admitted as Observer to Arctic Council

The news that Italy had been admitted to the Arctic Council with Observer status was received with great satisfaction and gratitude to the Council members and the Swedish Presidency that championed the move. Recognising both our country’s longtime participation in research and studies on the Arctic, as well as the interest of Italian firms in […]

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Bonino in Parliament – Foreign Ministry to contribute to Italy’s rebound

Promotion of the country’s productive system, strengthening of the European Union, the Middle East peace process, the Syrian crisis, Libya and the solution to the case of the marines held in India were some of the foreign ministry’s main planning concerns outlined by Minister Emma Bonino in her report before the Upper and Lower Houses […]

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Bonino in Parliament, planning report – Foreign Ministry to contribute to country’s rebound

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs intends “to contribute to the economic recovery and consolidation” of the country, which is the government’s top “priority”, and to do so, first and foremost, through the “internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises”, a mission that will be shared with the Ministries of Economic Development and of Foreign Trade, announced […]

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SLOVACCHIA – In arrivo festival italiano ‘Dolce Vitaj’ (in translation)

Mancano poche settimane al via per il Festival italiano in Slovacchia ‘Dolce vitaj’, organizzato dall’Istituto italiano di cultura di Bratislava in collaborazione con l’Ambasciata italiana e la Camera di commercio italo-slovacca. Un nome, un programma per una rassegna che richiama la nota espressione italiana, evocando allo stesso tempo la parola ‘benvenuto’ (vitaj) in slovacco.Quest’anno sara’ […]

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SERBIA – All’ambasciatore Varricchio premio “Europeo dell’anno 2012” (in translation)

E’ andato anche al nostro ambasciatore a Belgrado, Armando Varricchio, il premio “Europeo dell’anno 2012”, assegnato ogni anno a sei personalita’ del mondo della politica, dell’economia, della diplomazia, della cultura, dell’imprenditoria e della scienza. Il vicepremier Aleksandar Vucic, nel corso della cerimonia, ha ringraziato l’Italia per il continuo sostegno al percorso di integrazione europea della […]

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WASHINGTON – Inaugurata mostra dedicata a Bice Lazzarri (in translation)

Si e’ aperta al National Museum of Women in the Arts (Nmwa) di Washington la mostra dal titolo “Bice Lazzari: Signature Line”. L’esposizione, che il pubblico potra’ visitare fino al 22 settembre prossimo, e’ dedicata all’artista Bice Lazzari, figura simbolo della pittura astratta in Italia negli anni Venti e Trenta. Organizzata in collaborazione con l’Archivio […]

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BUDAPEST – Seminar on italian restoriation

A seminar entitled “The future of our past: avant-garde technologies for conservation and restoration”, organised by the Italian Cultural Institute, will be held tomorrow in Budapest during a day dedicated to Italian and Hungarian experiences conservation and restoration of monuments and cultural patrimony in general, a sector of deep mutual interest. Read more, in Italian.

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VALONA – Award of the ‘Giovani sguardi su Italia’ prize

With the prize for the three best short films, the Italian Consulate General’s competition “Giovani sguardi sull’Italia” for young Albanian students of Italian in Valona, came to an end. The project allowed the students to work with young Italian filmmakers Niki Dell’Anno and Nadia Bianco. Twelve films were presented, all of which developed the theme […]

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