Brazil-Italy: mou on energy efficiency

The Embassy of Italy in Brazil signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal District of Brasilia aimed at encouraging collaboration in the sector of energy efficiency, starting with the experimentation already under way with the “Green Embassy” project, which calls for the collaboration and participation of Italian solar panel and water resources firms in […]

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Speech by Minister Terzi at the 9th Conference of Ambassadors of Italy (Italian only)

(fa fede solo il testo effettivamente pronunciato) Signor Presidente della Camera, Cari Ministri e Autorità presenti, Cari Sottosegretari e Segretario Generale, Cari Ambasciatori e Colleghi tutti, desidero innanzitutto ringraziare le Autorità e le Personalità che hanno accettato il nostro invito a questa IX Conferenza degli Ambasciatori. Soprattutto voglio sottolineare la rinnovata partecipazione a questo appuntamento […]

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Napolitano: working to strengthen Italy’s credibility – Ambassadors Conference: for Terzi diplomacy an engine for growth

“2012 has been a difficult year; 2013 is filled with unknowns” and the main challenge is to “strengthen and build on the high rate of renewed credibility that Italy can boast in the world”. President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano spoke before the 9th Conference of Ambassadors at the foreign ministry in Rome. “This is […]

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Colombia, Italian music at the Cartagena Festival

The 7th edition of the Cartagena International Music Festival, running from 5 to 13 January 2013, will be dedicated to Italian musical styles between the 14th and 17th century. The event was presented yesterday at the foreign ministry in Rome as a tribute, in Minister Terzi words, to a friendly nation to Italy which Italy […]

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Reykjavik: euro crisis, Italy Iceland encounter

The workshop “Inside or outside the Euro: Iceland and Italy tackling their financial crisis”, held at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik was an initiative spearheaded by the Embassy of Italy in Reykjavik, and organized in collaboration with the Bank of Italy, the Bank of Iceland and the University of Iceland. Its main focus was […]

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MARINES: TERZI RELIEVED AT THE NEWS

“We are very relieved at the news, which is proof of India’s sensitivity to the Italian people’s deepest feelings for the important Christmas holidays”. This was Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi’s comment on the Indian court’s granting a two-week leave to the Italian marines being held there.  

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Safe Travelling: Terzi’s appeal for caution

“Caution and awareness are the best prevention” for those intending to travel, underscored Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi in his customary message to Italians getting ready to travel for the Christmas holidays. “Safe Travelling” and “Where we are in the world” Terzi pointed out that the foreign ministry and its crisis unit were a […]

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Nazi massacres: Italy and Germany build common memory for peace, Terzi says

It is the desire on the part of both Italy and Germany to build a “common memory” of the years of Nazi violence, in honour of the victims, but also to “demonstrate that our nations were able to survive those tragedies” and to “work together” today on the future of the European Union. These were […]

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Al Quirinale incontro con il leader palestinese (Corriere della Sera)

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Seoul: Venice Film Festival arrives

The Venice Film Festival comes to Seoul: through 6 January screenings of the films presented at the 69th edition of the celebrated festival will be held around the Korean capital, In an initiative organised by the Italian Cultural Institute, the Venice Biennale and The Korean Association of Cinematheques.

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Warsaw: Maglietta performs Morante

During a conference on Elsa Morante organised by the Italian studies department of the University of Warsaw, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Centro Studi Famiglia Capponi of Florence, Italian actress Licia Maglietta gave an enchanting performance of a chapter of the novel “L’isola di Arturo” for which the author received the Strega Award in […]

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Armenia: Italian Cinema Week launched

The third edition of Italian Cinema Week in Armenia was launched at the Hamazgayin State Theatre in the capital of Yerevan, to a large audience. The presentation of the events calendar of the festival, dedicated this year to the theme of “the expression of the soul in Italian cinema”, was followed by a musical performance […]

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