Enquiry into the Sant’Anna di Stazzema massacre closed: The Secretary General receives the German Deputy Foreign Minister, Link

The Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry, Michele Valensise, received the German Deputy Foreign Minister, Michael Georg Link, at the Farnesina today. The Secretary General was acting on instructions from Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi. Valensise noted that “with all due respect for the independence of the German courts, we cannot ignore the fact that this […]

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Berlin – Italian embassy promotes scientific learning with three seminars

The theory of general relativity, the history of geometry and the search for extra-solar planets: these are the topics of three seminars being organised by the Italian Embassy in Berlin to promote scientific learning. The seminars, which also aim to showcase Italian excellence in the sciences, are part of the Italian Cultural Institute’s autumn programme […]

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LONGITUDE: “Choosing heads” (in translation)

Soltanto per una pura coincidenza, quasi contemporaneamente negli Stati Uniti ed in Cina, le due potenze che più influenzano le scelte mondiali, si rinnovano i vertici. Che cosa significa tutto questo per il resto mondo viene analizzato, con una serie di servizi, nel nuovo numero di “Longitude”, la rivista diretta da Pialuisa Bianco in edicola […]

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Communication is a foreign policy tool

The Foreign Ministry “promotes and defends Italy’s interests worldwide so must communicate to the world what Italy is and does. For us, communication never comes as an afterthought to decisions: it is an integral part of and helps determine them”. In short, said Manzo, “communication is a foreign policy tool”. The point was explained by […]

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Brazil – Rousseff welcomes Caravaggio to Planalto

Caravaggio’s journey across Latin America is proceeding with great success. Having attracted over 160,000 visitors to the “Museu de Arte” in São Paulo for an exhibition lasting nearly two months, “Caravaggio and His Followers” is now showing in Planalto, the seat of the Presidency of the Brazilian Republic. Read more, in Italian.

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La comunicazione è strumento di politica estera (in translation)

Si è tenuto oggi a Milano a Palazzo Giureconsulti il workshop “Il governo è maker?” nell’ambito della Settimana della Comunicazione, un evento collettivo annuale in cui si incontrano creativitá, tecnologie, editoria, arte e design. Tra i partecipanti, il capo del servizio per la stampa e la comunicazione istituzionale del Ministero degli affari esteri, Giuseppe Manzo, […]

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Responsabilità. E’ il marchio d’impresa dei funzionari – vorrei usare una parola un po’ d’altri tempi, ma adatta- dei servitori dello Stato. E quella del diplomatico e’ una responsabilità molto speciale. Siamo responsabili verso tutti i cittadini italiani perché il nostro lavoro all’estero e’ di rappresentarli tutti, tutelarli tutti: in tutti gli ambiti della loro […]

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Italy-Georgia : trade up 53.7% in the first half of 2012

According to the latest ISTAT data, trade between Italy and Georgia increased by nearly 54% (53.7) in the first half of 2012 as compared with the same period in 2011, totally over €137 million. To read more select ITALIANO at the top of the page.

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(please check against actual speech as delivered) (in Italian only) Signor Presidente del Burkina Faso,Signor Presidente del Consiglio,Commissario Piebalgs,Ministro Riccardi,Signor Sindaco di Milano,Dottor Scaroni,Signore e Signori, Voglio esprimere innanzi tutto al collega Riccardi l’apprezzamento per aver fortemente voluto un Forum sulla cooperazione, un tema che rimane centrale nella nostra attività internazionale. Il suo discorso appassionato […]

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Ottawa: Italy-Canada round table on start-ups

In collaboration with Carleton University, Canada’s Public Policy Forum and the University of Toronto, the Embassy of Italy in Ottawa organised a day, October 2nd, dedicated to discussions of Italian and Canadian experiences in innovation and university, business, research and institutional partnerships, and the creation of start-ups. The event can be followed in live streaming […]

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There is no growth without innovation, no progress without research and development. Researchers, scientists, institutions and business persons need the web in Italy and abroad in order to share their strategic resources. Innovitalia is a digital platform to be presented at the foreign ministry in Rome at 12:00 on Thursday 4 October 2012 by Minister […]

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International Cooperation Forum: Terzi: Central to foreign policy – from assistance to partnership

“The rapid transformations of recent decades that have accelerated new geopolitical equilibriums and regional integration, today express the foreign policy-cooperation equation in new terms; dense in problems and at the same time filled with extraordinary prospects, which include “assistance and aid evolving into partnerships with our counterparts”, Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi’s commented during […]

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