SERBIA – Italy is again the country’s leading commercial partner

Italy is once again Serbia’s leading commercial partner. The figures for the first quarter of 2013 show our country firmly in first place in trade with the Balkan country, with our exports up 35.9% and our imports up 103.4% on an annual basis. Italy’s market share has also grown, to 27.3%, ahead of Germany (23.2) […]

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ITALY-CHINA: cooperation growing in forestry field

Italian-Chinese collaboration is growing in the environmental field. A forestry workshop was organised recently in Beijing by the Science Attaché at the Italian Embassy, the Chinese Academy of Forestry and the Universita’ della Tuscia. The aim of the workshop was to foster exchanges of knowledge between Italy and China by developing joint projects. Read more, […]

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‘ITALIAN LIFESTYLE’ MAPPING EXERCISE IN SHANGHAI

The Italian Consulate in Shanghai has begun a project to map the “Italian Lifestyle in Shanghai”. The mapping exercise will identify art galleries, architectural practices, boutiques and dressmakers and all the other highlights of the “Made in Italy” brand in the Chinese city. The aim of the project, inspired by the “Historical Map of Italians […]

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TURKEY: Bonino addresses the Chamber – ‘Italy wants a fully democratic Turkey in Europe’

“Italy wants a fully democratic Turkey in Europe and EU membership could have a beneficial effect on Turkey”. These were the words of Foreign Minister Emma Bonino in her briefing to the Chamber of Deputies on the demonstrations in Turkey which, in the Minister’s view, arose “spontaneously”. The use of force is unacceptable Bonino also […]

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

Reminder: 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 […]

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Pistelli: «Ma Erdogan resta un amico»

Viceministro Lapo Pistelli, Erdogan sceglie la linea dura con l’opposizione. Che fa l’Europa? «Il governo Erdogan ha il dovere di fare chiarezza sulla reazione sproporzionata delle forze di polizia, e che è stata condannata da tutti i paesi europei. Non esiste che muoiano dei manifestanti, che si sparino lacrimogeni ad altezza d’uomo, che ci siano […]

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ANNOUNCEMENT FOR EDITORS-IN-CHIEF: Visit by Ambassadors accredited in Italy to the “Palidoro” Command – Motorised and Specialist Units (Friday 14 June 2013)

On Friday 14 June 2013 the Ambassadors accredited in Italy will visit the “Palidoro” command of the Carabinieri, which includes the Motorised and Specialist Units. The visit is being organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the General Command of the Carabinieri. The welcoming address by the Commander in Chief and the Head of […]

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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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