Belgrade, Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly” on stage

A gala production of Giacomo Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” promoted and supported by the Italian Cultural Institute of Belgrade will be staged on Sunday, 28 November at 7 pm at the National Theatre of Belgrade. The production is a production of the Puccini Festival Foundation of Torre del Lago Puccini, in cooperation with the Italian Cultural […]

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Italian Film Festival in South Africa

The Italian Embassy in Pretoria, with the Italian Institute of Culture, the General Consulate of Italy in Johannesburg, the Italian Consulate in Cape Town and the Italian Embassy in Zimbabwe, present  “The Italian Film Focus in Southern Africa 2021” on the MYmovies platform. The 21st edition of the Italian Film Festival will be held from […]

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Wee of Italian Cuisine: a masterclass on panettone in Algiers

To mark the end of the Week of Italian Cuisine, on Sunday 28 November the Embassy of Italy in Algeria and the Italian Cultural Institute in Algiers will be holding a masterclass on how to make panettone. The protagonist will be the young Algerian baker Ahmed Nezzar, founder of “Panettone di Ahmed Nezzar”. The programme […]

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Foreign Ministry Note – The Italian of Tomorrow. The States-General of Italian Language and Creativity in the World

Rome, 29 November 2021 Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation International Conference Room   THE ITALIAN OF TOMORROW GLI STATI GENERALI DELLA LINGUA E CREATIVITÀ ITALIANE NEL MONDO   With the participation of His Excellency the President of Italy Mr. Sergio MATTARELLA The States-General of Italian Language and Creativity in the World will open on Monday, 29 November, at […]

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Ghana: Week of Italian Cuisine event “Sapori d’Italia – Taste of Italy”

The sixth Week of Italian Cuisine in the World was celebrated in Ghana with the event “Sapori d’Italia – Taste of Italy” organised by the Embassy of Italy in Accra and the local Italian Trade Agency office, to promote the excellence of our wine production and the Italian agri-food chain. In the presence of Mark […]

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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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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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