“Red benches” at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Embassies. International Women’s Day, Friday 8 March

To mark International Women’s Day, Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, asked the Italian Foreign Ministry to install a “red bench” in every Embassy of Italy around the world. “Italy must take the lead in promoting gender equality and women’s emancipation, especially in preventing and opposing all […]

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Minister Tajani’s visit to the “Bambini in Emergenza” Foundation

During his mission to Bucharest, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani visited the “Bambini in Emergenza” Foundation, which was created in the late 1990s by Italian journalist Mino Damato to help abandoned children with AIDS and, more recently, abandoned children with disabilities. “The “Bambini in Emergenza” Foundation is one of the most significant examples […]

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Meeting of the Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, with the President of Romania, Klauss Iohannis

Within the framework of his mission to Romania, the Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, met today in Bucharest with the President of Romania, Klauss Iohannis. Tajani stressed that “relations between Italy and Romania have made a decisive qualitative leap with the 3rd intergovernmental summit held in […]

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Vienna, conference on women in science

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Italy’s diplomatic missions in Vienna (Italian Embassy and Permanent Mission to the International Organisations in Vienna), Canada, France, Sweden and the United Kingdom organised a panel discussion on 6 March at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) headquarters entitled Women in Science: Breaking Frontiers. Experiences and Policy Implications […]

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Working Table for the Internationalisation of Biotechnology Industries

On 6 March, the Working Table for the Internationalisation of the Biotechnology Sector was convened for the first time in plenary session at the request of the Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, on the occasion of the conference “Italy-USA: International Cooperation on Emerging Biotechnologies and Life […]

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Abu Dhabi, exhibition on the Italian Mannerist artist Lavinia Fontana

The “LAVINIA” art exhibition, promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with the DIFC in Dubai, was inaugurated in Abu Dhabi at The Gate at DIFC – West Lobby. The exhibition, which will be open to the public until 30 March, was put together by a team of international curators led by Alejandra Castro […]

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“Food for Gaza” initiative

On the initiative of Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, next Monday Italy will set up the “Food for Gaza” initiative, a coordination panel featuring FAO, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). “Since the outbreak of […]

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Agreement between the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation and the Italian Customs and Monopolies Agency to strengthen joint programmes in countries benefiting from Italian cooperation

The Directors of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (Agenzia Italiana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo, AICS) Marco Riccardo Rusconi and of the Customs and Monopolies Agency (Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli, ADM) Roberto Alesse today signed a Cooperation Agreement at the Italian Foreign Ministry in the presence of Italy’s Deputy Minister of Foreign […]

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Eritrea, new discoveries at the Adulis archaeological site

A new phase of the Italian archaeological mission in Adulis, an ancient port city and the most important archaeological site in Eritrea, has come to an end. The latest excavation operations, as led by the project’s scientific director, Prof. Serena Massa of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, lasted several weeks and brought […]

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Costa Rica – A new guide for Italian economic operators on export opportunities published.

The practical guide “Esportare in Costa Rica” was recently published on the website of the Italian Embassy to Costa Rica. The guide is the sixth in a series of publications that illustrate to Italian economic operators the opportunities available in the most promising sectors of the local market. The sectors covered are the most interesting […]

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Undersecretary Tripodi opens a seminar on cybersecurity in Bucharest: full agreement on the issue between Italy and Romania

By proxy of the Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, the Italian Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Maria Tripodi opened in Bucharest the seminar “Cybersecurity: a prerequisite for business excellence”, held at the Residence of the Italian Ambassador to Romania. The event is part of […]

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Vietnam, the art of Italian mosaic on show

The Asian tour of the exhibition “MOSAICO. Italian code of a timeless art” starts in Vietnam. As a matter of fact, Hanoi will be the first city in Asia to host the multimedia exhibition dedicated to Italian mosaics, as conceived and realised by Magister Art and promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and […]

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