Di Maio: “The strength of Italian know how and of the “Made in Italy” brand, as key resources for a new impetus to the Country’s economy” (Il Sole 24 Ore)

Dear Editor, Innovation and creativity are at the heart of the Foreign Ministry’s work to promote and protect the image of Italy worldwide. Enhancing the value of Italian products is an essential part of this mission, the importance of which is well understood by those who bring our excellence to markets all over the world […]

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Foreign Ministry notice – Minister Di Maio meets the French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian

Today at the Farnesina, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, met the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian. During their cordial meeting, which took place on the sidelines of the signing of the “French-Italian Enhanced Cooperation Treaty”, the two Ministers discussed the main dossiers on the bilateral agenda, […]

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Sereni: Africa and Italy are developing a strong partnership

“A strong partnership in support of the economic vocation of Africa is a priority of our foreign policy, as the document of strategic orientation on Africa issued last December clearly states”. The Vice Minister Marina Sereni declared this in a video address presented at the Summit held in Johannesburg by the European House Ambrosetti to […]

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Foreign Ministry Note – Italy rejoins the UNESCO World Heritage Committee

From today Italy is once again a member of the World Heritage Committee, the UNESCO body that is responsible, under the UNESCO Convention of 1972, for ensuring the effective and well-structured protection of World Heritage and for taking final decisions about inscriptions on the World Heritage List. Italy had been absent from the Committee for […]

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Experimentation of electronic voting for COMITES elections

On November 24, experimentation of the digital voting process got under way. The occasion was the elections of the Committees for Italians Abroad (COMITES) organized by the Farnesina. Electronic voting involves electors in eleven consular districts: Berlin, Munich (for the committees of Munich and Nuremberg, Marseilles, London (for the committees of London and Manchester), The […]

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Libya: new flight for Italy brings hope to asylum seekers

Ninety-three asylum seekers from Libya landed today at Fiumicino Airport. After their arrival, they will be able to apply for refugee status, which will give them the right to protection. The asylum seekers traveled on a charter fIight of the UNHCR, the United Nations Agency for Refugees. It is the first arrival implementing a protocol […]

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Prague, a poetry festival dedicated to Dante

An entire festival dedicated to the great Poet, organised in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute of Prague, closed the celebrations in the Czech Republic for the seven hundredth anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death. The Den poezie (http://www.denpoezie.cz/) event, which is held every year in November, since 1999, throughout the country to celebrate the birth of […]

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Week of Italian Cuisine: Michelin-starred chef Berton in Buenos Aires

In Buenos Aires, the sixth Week of Italian Cuisine opened with an evening entitled “Con Gusto. Italia en el plato”, animated by the multi-starred Friulian chef Andrea Berton. Organized by the Italian Cultural Institute directed by Donatella Cannova, and by the Italian Embassy in Argentina, the evening offered proof of Berton’s intense research into the […]

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Speech by Minister Luigi Di Maio at the meeting of the Assembly of the Permanent Commission of the Council of Europe

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, is speaking today at the meeting of the Permanent Commission of the Assembly of the Council of Europe. The proceedings will begin at 15.00 and can be followed in live streaming.

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Week of Italian Cuisine: in Berlin, the protagonist is food tech

In Berlin, the protagonist of the Week of Italian Cuisine is food tech. In a two-day programme at the Berlin Embassy, nine Italian start-ups from the agri-food sector will be meeting various institutions that are the accelerators and incubators for one of the world’s most significant innovation ecosystems.   The projects presented will range from Blockchain […]

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3rd Italy-Lithuania Business Forum

On 01 December, the 3rd Italy-Lithuania Business Forum on renewable energy will take place in Vilnius, in person and online at the Radisson Blue Hotel Lietuva. Organised by the Italian Embassy in Vilnius and Ice/Agenzia in collaboration with the Lithuanian Ministry of Energy, Enterprise Lithuania, the Italian-Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce, and the Lithuanian Confederation of […]

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Tunis: Italian archaeologists in conference

A two-day debate between archaeologists will be taking place in Tunisia on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 November in the town of Teboursouk, about 100 kilometers west of Tunis,  convened by the Italian Cultural Institute of Tunis as a round table entitled “La pertica des Carthaginois, de la constitution au démembrement (I er siècle a.C.-III […]

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