Tajani “Exports as a strategic mission – the key to cutting debt” (Il Sole 24 Ore)

Exports are vital for Italy. They play a decisive role in cutting debt, in making the country even more stable and credible both socially and economically. In this economic phase national consumption is decreasing and therefore companies can only compensate with external demand. This is the reason why exports are a strategic mission for us […]

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Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons performed by the group Giovani Solisti Italiani in Manama

The Italian Embassy in Manama, in collaboration with the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (BACA), organised a concert featuring The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi, performed by the group Giovani Solisti Italiani (Young Italian Soloists) on Wednesday, 14 December 2022. The newly formed ensemble debuted with violin soloist Federico Bresciani, piano player Jacopo Salvatori, […]

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​PRESS ACCREDITATION NOTE – CONFERENCE OF ITALIAN AMBASSADORS, ROME, 21-22 DECEMBER 2022

PRESS ACCREDITATION NOTE   On Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 December 2022 the Farnesina will once again be hosting the Conference of Italian Ambassadors in the World. This year’s topic will be “Italian diplomacy in the service of the country in a changing world”. The event will bring together over 100 heads of Italian diplomatic missions […]

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Positive outcome of the Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention, under Italian Presidency

The 9th Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention, chaired by Ambassador Leonardo Bencini, Permanent Representative of Italy to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, ended yesterday. The 184 States-Parties adopted by consensus a Final Document that breaks the stalemate in which the Convention has found itself for over twenty years, with the approval of […]

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Meeting of the Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Giorgio Silli, with the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Immigration of Belize, Amalia Mai (Rome, 17 December 2022)

The Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Giorgio Silli, met yesterday afternoon, 16 December 2022, with the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Immigration of Belize, Amalia Mai, accompanied by Belizean Ambassador to the Holy See Jaime Efrain Briceño at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The enhancement […]

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​The Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and International Development, Maria Tripodi, attends the “German-Italian Young Leaders Dialogue – Spinelli Forum” (16 December 2022)

The Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and International Development, Maria Tripodi, attended the “German-Italian Young Leaders Dialogue – Spinelli Forum”, held at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) in Milan, along with her German counterpart, Anna Luhrmann, Minister of State for Europe and Climate. The Undersecretary was attending on behalf of the Deputy Prime […]

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Space Day: “Looking Beyond” photo exhibition in Prague

To celebrate the National Space Day, the Italian Embassy in Prague, jointly with the Italian Cultural Institute in Prague and the Italian Space Agency (ASI), and with the support of UniCredit Bank, presented the “Looking Beyond” project in the halls of the Thun-Hohenstein Palace. The photo exhibition of satellite images was organised by the Farnesina […]

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Farnesina Secretary-General, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi, meets with Japan’s Ambassador to Italy, Satoshi Suzuki (16 December 2022)

Today, the Secretary-General of the Farnesina, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi, received Japan’s Ambassador to Italy, Satoshi Suzuki. During their meeting they exchanged views on the state of bilateral relations, particularly focusing on the prospects of economic cooperation and on possible synergies concerning the development of strategic industrial sectors. Ambassador Sequi and Ambassador Suzuki also talked […]

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Divina Italia at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires

Italy will be the first country to present and perform an artistic programme for two entire theatre seasons at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. The programme, called Divina Italia, will run for the 2023 and 2024 theatre seasons and will feature a large number of Italian performances, (operas), artists and theatre productions ranging from […]

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UPDATE Accreditation Note Press event “I ACT” – Italy&Irena Action for Climate Toolkit – FARNESINA 19.12.2022 at 10.00 a.m.

UPDATE Press Accreditation Note “I ACT” – Italy&Irena Action for Climate Toolkit – FARNESINA 19 December 2022 – 10:00 am   On Monday 19 December 2022 the Farnesina International Conferences Hall will host the second appointment of the “Global Days” programme, which features a number of initiatives focusing on internationally relevant topics, with a view to […]

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Celebrations in Prague for the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the first Italian Cultural Institute and a century of Cultural Diplomacy – Planning of the activities of the Italian Cultural Institutes for 2023

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the first Italian Cultural Institute, opened in October 1922 in Prague, and the start of a century of cultural diplomacy, the Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Farnesina has organised a series of events in the Czech capital that will culminate on Sunday […]

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REMINDER: PRESS ACCREDITATION NOTE – PRESS CONFERENCE BY DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, MR ANTONIO TAJANI – Farnesina, 19 December 2022 – 4:00 pm

REMINDER PRESS ACCREDITATION NOTE   On Monday, 19 December 2022, at 4:00 pm, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mr Antonio Tajani, will hold a press conference on “Italy’s foreign policy priorities”. Journalists, photographers and TV crews interested in covering the event may apply for accreditation by no later than 4:00 […]

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