SYRIA – New Italian initiatives to help the refugees

The Italian Ambassador to Jordan, Patrizio Fondi, has visited the Syrian refugee camp in Zaatari to deliver medical supplies for the Italian-Jordanian field hospital. The supplies will be used to treat respiratory illnesses, diabetes, high blood pressure, reproductive health and children’s conditions, as requested by the hospital’s director. Supplies of equipment and prefabricated modules Ambassador […]

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Barcellona celebrates Pasolini with forthcoming exhibition and film season

Barcelona is celebrating Pier Paolo Pasolini, the world-famous writer and director, with two events in May: an exhibition on his pivotal relationship with the city of Rome, and a film season retracing his life and career. The exhibition opens on 22 May 2013 and this year and next will travel to Paris, Rome and Berlin. […]

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NICOSIA – Cypriot students looking to Italy

The Italian stand was a great success at the 20th International Education Fair in Nicosia, which attracted nearly 300 exhibitors from 20 countries. The stand attracted crowds of students and their parents seeking information not just on courses but on accommodation and costs in the various universities. Another visitor to the stand was Cyprus’s new […]

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New section on foreign markets: infoMercatiEsteri

Starting today, 6 March 2013, the Foreign Ministry has a new section called “infoMercatiEsteri”, conceived and produced by the Directorate General for the Promotion of “System Italy”. Designed to meet the demand for information on foreign markets voiced by Italy’s economic and business communities, it provides two main search options: geographical or sector-based. Assessing which […]

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ALBANIA – Italian cultural institute pays homage to Verdi and Rita Levi Montalcini

Giuseppe Verdi and Rita Levi Montalcini will be the “stars” of the Italian Cultural Institute in Tirana’s cultural programme for March 2013. A ballet inspired by the great composer and the music of La Traviota will open at the Theatre of Opera and Ballet on Thursday 7 March. 2013 sees the 200th anniversary of Verdi’s […]

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“Terzi and Italy in the World” (America Oggi)

NEW YORK. Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata is in New York for meetings at the United Nations. On Monday 4 March 2013 he met the Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, to discuss Libya and Somalia and the crises in Syria, Mali and the Sahel. At the end of the meeting, Terzi gave us this long […]

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Italy-USA: Terzi opens Piero della Francesca exhibition in New York

Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi has opened an exhibition entitled “’Piero della Francesca in America” at the Frick Collection in New York. The event came at the end of his two day-visit to the city, during which he met the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and the President of the General Assembly, Vuk […]

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Terzi from New York

The “Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership” (TTIP), the outlook for the eurozone and the G20’s initiatives on international financial stability. These were the key issues discussed at Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi’s meeting today, 5 March 2013, with American economic–financial experts who are members of the International Economic Alliance (IEA). Minister Terzi is in New York […]

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Syria: Terzi meets Ban Ki-moon at UN – A road leading to a solution of the crisis is needed

The need for firmer pressure on the Syrian regime by the international community in order to find a road leading to a solution of the crisis. That was the key point of the discussion between Minister Giulio Terzi and the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, at the UN headquarters. Both agreed on […]

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Bolivia – Italy supports the country’s cultural heritage

Enhancing the cultural heritage and restoring the altar and the works of art housed in the Church in Canton Cohoni, painted by Leonardo Flores in around 1680, and repairing the roof. This is the goal of the “Fortalecimiento de la Capacidad de Gestion del Patrimonio Historico – Proyecto Piloto Canton Cohoni” project illustrated in late […]

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ITALY-EGYPT – Egyptian students under the spell of italian

The number of Egyptians studying Italian has boomed, with enrolments of university students learning the language of Dante rising fourfold in the last two years. The figure rose from 491 in academic year 2011/2012 to 1930 in 2012/2013, making a total of 9322 students enrolled in courses featuring Italian as a first or second language. […]

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Zagreb – Venice on display: history meets technology

The exhibition on “Visualizing Venice, new technologies for urban history” has opened at the Italian Cultural Institute in Zagreb. The exhibition, which features the Visualizing Venice university research project, showcases some of the most innovative communications systems telling the story of the city’s transformations over the centuries. The research, which began in 2010, is being […]

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