Belgrade – Italo-Serbian Partnership

A meeting was held of the Italo-Serbian Business Council, an association made up of both countries’ main firms involved in bilateral collaboration and that has become a high-level forum for dialogue between business communities and the presentation of business world proposals to institutions. The workshop offered an opportunity to examine priority sectors for Italo-Serbian collaboration, […]

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Turkey – “Italian Horizons”: 50+ events – music, art and economy

Italy goes on display in Turkey with the third edition of “Italian Horizons”, a series of events across Turkey throughout 2013, presented by Italian Ambassador Giampaolo Scarante with a view to stimulating the already extraordinary development of relations between the two countries in the areas of policy, economy and culture, by actively involving the broad […]

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ITALY-ALBANIA – BOOK ON THE HADRIANOPOLIS EXCAVATIONS

A summary of the five-year archaeological excavation at the ancient Roman city of Hadrianopolis in Albania will be presented on 16 March next during the launch of the book ““Hadrianopolis II” at the library of the Italian Cultural Institute of Tirana. The book was edited by Roberto Perna and Dhimiter Condi who directed the field […]

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Italian aid for palestinian children in Lebanon

A multi-functional centre for children and teenagers in the Nahr el Bared Palestinian camp in northern Lebanon has been reopened. The complex had been badly damaged during the 2007 conflict, and was refurbished within the context of a project co-funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the NGO Terre des Hommes-Italy.

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ADDIS ABABA – SCHOOL FOR WOMEN’s RIGHTS

A “flashmob” in the courtyard of the Istituto Galileo Galilei in Addis Ababa to promote all too often violated women’s rights. The event was organized in the Ethiopian capital within the context of the “One Billion Rising” project, a day of worldwide mobilisation against violence to women. Over 200 students interrupted their lessons and danced […]

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Minister Terzi’s speech for the Commencement of the Academic Year

Magnifico Rettore dell’Università di Bergamo, Magnifici Rettori, Professori e studenti, Signore e Signori, rivolgo a tutti voi un cordialissimo saluto. Ben ritrovati nella nostra Bergamo! Sono particolarmente grato al Rettore Stefano Paleari per l’invito. Negli ultimi quindici mesi, e ancora in queste ultime settimane di attività di governo, la cultura – nella sua declinazione ampia […]

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Inaugurazione anno accademico – Terzi: riportare la cultura al centro del dibattito politico

Magnifico Rettore dell’Università di Bergamo, Magnifici Rettori, Professori e studenti, Signore e Signori, rivolgo a tutti voi un cordialissimo saluto. Ben ritrovati nella nostra Bergamo! Sono particolarmente grato al Rettore Stefano Paleari per l’invito. Negli ultimi quindici mesi, e ancora in queste ultime settimane di attività di governo, la cultura – nella sua declinazione ampia […]

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Brussels – Champion shots

Artist Stefano Nicolini’s photographic exhibition “Champions” opens on 27 February at the Italian Cultural Institute of Brussels, and is a study in the image of sports champions whose features are blurred in order to foreground the essence of the athletic gesture. The show will remain open to the public through 13 March.

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Italian compass points to opportunity in Kazakhstan

To better inform Italian business persons about Kazakhstan, a strategically located country with a new, young market brimming with potential: that is the goal of the Italy-Kazakhstan association presented in Rome during a conference whose participants included Kazak ambassador to Italy Andrian Yelemessov, MFA Director for Internationalisation Inigo Lambertini, Vice-President of the Young Business Persons […]

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The Year of Italian Culture in the USA 2013 (Foreign Ministry Rome, 20 February 2013)

On Wednesday 20 February 2013 Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi will chair a meeting at the foreign ministry in Rome entitled “The Year of Italian Culture in the USA 2013: a public/private partnership model for the promotion of Italian culture abroad”, organised with the support of ENI and Banca Intesa. At two months since […]

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Azerbaijan – New manual for Italian firms

A new manual for Italian firms intending to invest in Azerbaijan was recently published on the website of the Embassy of Italy in Baku, entitled “Doing business in Azerbaijan” 2013. The publication is an instrument for use by the many firms intending to launch business activities in that country, and analyses a series of topics […]

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs once again participates in the RAI initiative “M’illumino di Meno”

Beginning at 18:00 hours on 15 February 2013 the lights will go out on the facade of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. All ministry staff in service in Rome and abroad will be urged to personally contribute to the initiative’s successful energy savings, sustainable mobility, waste reduction and, while maintaining security regulations, by turning off […]

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