Turin bids to host World Chamber Congress

The city of Turin is competing with Belfast, Geneva and Liverpool to host the World Chambers Congress in 2015. The bid was submitted during the visit to Turkey by the Mayor of Turin, Piero Fassino, who visited Izmir and Istanbul. The mission was oranised with support from the Italian Embassy and Consulates in Turkey and […]

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Expo Venlo: award for italian pavilion

Italy has won an award for the best-designed pavilion at the Floriade 2012 Expo in Venlo, along with Azerbaijan, Belgium and Spain. In the view of the Commissioner General for the Expo, Gabor, the award was given for the way our pavilion harmonised perfectly with the Floriade site as a whole. Read more, in Italian.

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(Please check against text as delivered) Vorrei complimentarmi con tutti i promotori di questa splendida iniziativa. Grazie in particolare al sostegno di Finmeccanica e alle intelligenze dello IAI, dell’ISPI e di Nomisma che hanno scritto il rapporto che avete appena illustrato. Sono molto lieto di partecipare a questo evento per due motivi: perché il rapporto […]

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A reminder that Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi will present the 2012 edition of the Italian Human Rights Yearbook at the Foreign Ministry on Thursday 20 September 2012, at 09.30. The Yearbook is produced by the “Inter-Departmental Centre for Human Rights” at the University of Padua. It covers the initiatives taken by Italy in all the […]

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Belgrade: mathematical physics at the embassy

The 7th international conference on recent developments in mathematical physics, organised by the University of Belgrade’s Institute of Physics, is taking place in Belgrade. The initiative was co-funded by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste and the Serbian Ministry for Education, science and Technological Development with support from the Science […]

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Dear Editor, A publishing adventure for which I wish you every success has been launched from the newsstands. I read with interest your presentation of the philosophy that inspires Pubblico. “Speaking for the first and the last”: courage and hope are vital virtues in the face of the changes taking place on the international stage […]

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For 8 months, the Foreign Ministers of the founding countries of Europe, along with Spain, Portugal, Austria, Poland and Denmark, have been holding informal meetings that have thus far been covered by a veil of silence. Their aim: to hold free discussions, without negotiating constraints, on the Europe of the future. And then, the night […]

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Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi will present the 2012 edition of the Italian Human Rights Yearbook at the Foreign Ministry on Thursday 20 September 2012, at 09.30. The Yearbook is produced by the “Inter-Departmental Centre for Human Rights” at the University of Padua. It covers the initiatives taken by Italy in all the international fora to […]

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Sofia: Ambassador Benazzo receives Bulgaria’s highest award

The Bulgarian President, Rosen Plevneliev, awarded Ambassador Stefano Benazzo the First Class Stara Planina, the Republic of Bulgaria’s highest honour, on 31 July 2012. The honour was awarded for the Ambassador’s “exceptional merit in developing and strengthening relations between Bulgaria and Italy”. On 13 July, Ambassador Benazzo had been made an honorary citizen of the […]

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Codice d’onore. L’Italia, e l’Europa, per il rientro in patria dei nostri marò (in translation)

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Syria: Terzi launches AGIRE campaign to help the refugees

Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi presented a fund-raising campaign this morning on the Uno Mattina programme. The fund is being organised by the Italian Emergency Response Campaign (Italian initials AGIRE), with support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to help Syrian refugees. Responding to the major humanitarian emergency in Syria “The first responsibility for us as […]

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Violence sparked by anti-Muslim film – Our embassies are safe, says Terzi

“Our embassies are in a safe position”, said Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi, speaking today on the Uno Mattina programme and referring to the anti-Islam film on Mohammad that is deemed to be blasphemous. “However”, added the Minister, “we are exercising the maximum surveillance”. “Our embassies are in a safe situation” Terzi explained that “we have […]

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