Copenhagen, lockdown in Rome as seen by Donatella Spaziani

The Italian Cultural Institute in Copenhagen, on the occasion of the Giornata del Contemporaneo (Day of the Contemporary), is hosting Donatella Spaziani’s exhibition “Insieme concertante”. For the first time, unpublished photographs taken by the artist, whose works are also in the Farnesina Collection, will be on display during the first lockdown in Rome, alongside pencil […]

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Signature of Protocol between the Italian Foreign Ministry and the Office of the Government’s Extraordinary Commissioner for Missing Persons

Today, the Secretary General of the Italian Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Ettore Sequi, and Prefect Silvana Riccio signed a new collaboration protocol between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Office of the Government’s Extraordinary Commissioner for Missing Persons. This agreement concerns in particular the exchange of information on searches for Italians who […]

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Minister Di Maio co-chairs the Italian-Russian Council for Economic, Industrial and Financial Cooperation with the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Manturov

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Luigi Di Maio received today, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Denis Manturov, to co-chair the work of the 18th plenary session of the “Italo-Russian Council for Economic, Industrial and Financial Cooperation” (CIRCEIF). Thematic sessions followed the […]

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Dakar, Ambassador De Vito visits the frigate Antonio Marceglia

The Italian Ambassador to Senegal, Giovanni Umberto De Vito, visited the Italian Navy’s frigate “Antonio Marceglia”, which made a stopover in Dakar on its return from a campaign of operations conducted in the Gulf of Guinea. In Dakar, the frigate Marceglia conducted an exercise with the Senegalese Navy before continuing its navigation. In greeting the […]

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The cutting-edge “Costa Toscana” cruise ship delivered in Finland

The Italian Ambassador to Finland, Sergio Pagano, attended the handover ceremony at the Meyer shipyard, in Turku, of the “Costa Toscana”, the new flagship of the Costa Crociere cruise fleet and sister ship of the “Costa Smeralda”, which was also launched in the port city in south-western Finland two years ago. Powered by liquefied natural […]

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Artist Talk with Rosa Barba in Berlin

On 3ed December, the Italian Embassy in Berlin hosted an Artist Talk with Rosa Barba. The artist’s exhibition, “In a Perpetual Now”, was chosen by the Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie, Joachim Jäger, to reopen the museum after six years of restoration. The initiative is part of the 17th “Giornata del Contemporaneo” (Contemporary Day), dedicated […]

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Tel Aviv, meeting with the author Abraham Yehoshua

The Italian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv will host on 8 December (at 17:00 Italian time) a meeting, titled “Italy is my second home”, with Israeli author Abraham B. Yehoshua, on the occasion of the publication in Italy of his latest novel The Only Daughter. The meeting will be attended by the Italian Ambassador to […]

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Myanmar/Burma: Declaration by the High Representative Josep Borrell on behalf of the European Union on the situation

Today, President Win Myint, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and Mayor Myo Aung were sentenced to jail terms in Myanmar. Their trial was politically motivated.  It represents another step towards the dismantling of the rule of law and a further blatant violation of human rights in Myanmar. The European Union strongly condemns this politically […]

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Italian anti-fascists in the Netherlands, a meeting in Amsterdam

“Vocie nascoste (Hidden Voices)”. Italian anti-fascists in the Netherlands: Angelo Agosti (1900-1985) and Luciana Rescia Bokma (1902-1995)” is the title of a meeting to be held on 10 December (2.30 pm) at the Italian Cultural Institute in Amsterdam, organised together with the 1001 Italianen/Culturissma Foundation. For a long time, the role of Italians in the […]

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Cantica21, “Patrizio” a video-installation at Belgrade

On the occasion of the 17th edition of the Contemporary Art Day, the Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade will present the video-installation called “Patrizio”, by Massimo Ricciardo, the winning work of the over-35-year-old section within the project Cantica21-Italian Contemporary Art Everywhere, a joint project of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture, […]

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Tunis, a documentary on the history of the Tabarchini

The documentary “Tabarchini, the story of the sea that unites”, by Tunisian-Italian director Habib Mestiri, premiered on 30 November at the Film Library of the Cité de la Culture in Tunis. Through a series of interviews with first-hand witnesses, the film reconstructs the history of Tabarka and the epic story of the population of Ligurian […]

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FOREIGN MINISTRY NOTE – Minister Di Maio has met with Josep Borrell, The High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

Today, on the occasion of the Rome-Med Dialogues, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had a meeting with Josep Borrell, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Their cordial discussion gave an overview of the main issues at stake for the EU Foreign Ministers. In reaffirming that the […]

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