​Belgium – Mermec wins tender with Belgian railways

Mermec has won the tender published by Belgian railways (Infrabel) for the supply of railway infrastructure diagnostics trains. The contract is worth between 50 and 90 million euro, depending on the number of trains required. The product provided by the Italian company includes very high-technology trains that can travel at 200 km/h in “bimodal” fashion, […]

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​Dhaka — commemoration of the Italian victims of the terrorist attack of 1 July 2016

A ceremony commemorating the Italian victims of the brutal terrorist attack of 1 July 2016 took place today at the Embassy of Italy in Dhaka. The Farnesina’s Director General for Italians Abroad, Luigi Vignali, accompanied by the Ambassador to Dhaka, Enrico Nunziata, laid a wreath of flowers on the plaque commemorating our nine fellow citizens. […]

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​Libya: 95 people find protection thanks to Italy

Ninety-five vulnerable people forced to flee their country left Libya this evening, headed for Rome’s Fiumicino Airport. They include children, female victims of trafficking, survivors of violence and torture and people with serious health conditions, identified by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Libya, on the basis also of information from the Community of Sant’Egidio […]

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Copenhagen: meeting with the Strega Prize finalists

The Copenhagen Italian Cultural Institute hosted the sole foreign leg of the 2022 Strega Tour. Six of the finalist authors of its LXXVI edition attended the meeting: Mario Desiati, Claudio Piersanti, Marco Amerighi, Veronica Raimo, Alessandra Carati and Veronica Galletta. It was held in Italian, with translation into Danish, and organised by Stefano Petrocchi, Director […]

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The Italian Film Days in Bosnia-Herzegovin

The Italian Embassy in Sarajevo presented the annual Italian Film Festival in Bosnia-Herzegovina, featuring a vast film screening program in the Country’s largest cities between 27 June and 3 July 2022. “The Italian Film Days represent one of the most popular of our cultural promotions among the Bosnian-Herzegovinian public,” said the Italian Ambassador Marco Di […]

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Buenos Aires, exhibition and conference on El Gran Chaco

The Italian Embassy in Buenos Aires has promoted two events aimed at illustrating the environmental, wildlife, and cultural importance of the Gran Chaco, an area whose wealth and problems are still little known, even if it represents Latin America’s second-largest green lung. The Gran Chaco is a region that has had – and continues to […]

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Meeting between Secretary-General, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi and Secretary-General of the Dutch Foreign Ministry, Paul Huijts

Farnesina Secretary-General, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi had a bilateral meeting with the Secretary-General of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paul Huijts The meeting gave them an opportunity to have a detailed exchange of views on the most significant issues on the European and international bilateral agenda, finding agreement in many dossiers of mutual interest. […]

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Bratislava, Vasco Bendini exhibition at the Museum of City History

An exhibition of the works of Vasco Bendini has opened at Bratislava Castle, in the rooms of the Museum of City History. The exhibition celebrates the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth. It was organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Bratislava and the Embassy of Italy in Slovakia, with the collaboration of the Museum […]

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Italy support of Ukraine

Italy condemns in the strongest possible terms Russia’s unjustified and unprovoked aggression against Ukraine, which is a blatant violation of international law and humanitarian principles. Italy highlights its unwavering support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity, full sovereignty and independence within its internationally recognized borders and its proactive engagement within the Euro-Atlantic community efforts to support Ukraine. […]

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Nairobi, Gianni Rodari’s short stories translated into Swahili

The Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Nairobi, in association with the Malindi Museum Society, co-organized an event based on “Storie di Rodari”, a publication edited by the same IIC which promotes the translation in English and Swahili of some of the short stories by the famous Italian writer. The event will be held at the […]

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A festival of literature, theatre and music in Tbilisi

The Italian Embassy in Georgia helped arrange the first edition of the Festival “Serate verdi nel Viale dei Frutti dimenticati” (green evenings on the boulevard of forgotten fruits) organised by the Tonino Guerra International Foundation in Tbilisi. The event kicked off on 26 June and will include four days of events featuring theatre, literature and […]

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Mandarin Oriental announces a new investment in Cortina d’Ampezzo

Mandarin Oriental, a leading international luxury hospitality chain, recently announced that it had entered into an agreement with the English investment firm Attestor Capital to redevelop and manage the historic Hotel Cristallo in Cortina d’Ampezzo to relaunch it in view of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. The investment, estimated to be 50 million euros, will be […]

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