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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Tehran: the interactive sculptures of Vaziri Moghaddam

The Italian-Iranian artist Vaziri Moghaddam’s interactive sculptures will be on display in Tehran, from tomorrow, at the “Argo Factory”. A preview of the exhibition “Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam.Unrealised Projects.Dynamic Sculptures from Small to Monumental 1968-2018” took place in the garden of the residence of the Ambassador of Italy, Giuseppe Perrone. This initiative, said Ambassador Perrone during […]

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Press release on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

On the occasion of the 2021 International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and its foreign network join the awareness-raising campaign “Orange the World: End Violence against Women Now!” launched by UN Women. This year, the campaign aims at preventing all forms of violence, […]

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Dakar, Christina Bowerman guest for the Week of Italian Cuisine

The Italian chef Cristina Bowerman is the guest of honor for the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World that starts today in Dakar and will end on November 26. In the capital of Senegal, the many-starred chef will herself be the star of events and intercultural meetings, in addition to offering recipes of Italian […]

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