International Holocaust Remembrance Day

On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation joins the international community in remembrance of the victims of the Shoah, the most tragic chapter in the history of Europe. As Chair of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, Italy reiterates its steadfast commitment to fighting […]

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Sereni on Africa: healthcare and vaccine aid Italy’s top priority

Today, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation attended the Salute e Sviluppo: l’impegno per l’Africa meeting at the Farnesina. Organised by NGOs Amref Health Africa – Italia and Codeway, the meeting centred on the findings of an Ipsos survey carried out on behalf of Amref Italia, titled La narrazione sull’Africa (The Africa Narrative). […]

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Stranger and the influence of Primo Levi

The Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Oslo presents Simon Stranger’s book ‘’Leksikon om lys og mørke – Il solo modo per dirsi addio’’ to mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The book narrates the story of a Jewish family, who after the war decided to move into the house of Nazi Henry Rinnan, where he […]

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Belgrade hosts a conference entitled ”From the inexpressible to the invisible.”

To mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Belgrade hosts an online debate entitled ”From the inexpressible to the invisible: interpreting the Remembrance of the Shoah through documents and projects. A dialogue between architecture and history.“   Guido Morpurgo and Milovan Pisarri will discuss the topic, with contributions by Ambassador […]

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day: online conversation in Lyon with Edith Bruck

On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Italian Cultural Institute in Lyon organised an online meeting with author Edith Bruck, whose book Il Pane Perduto (The Lost Bread) – which describes her deportation to Auschwitz – has just been translated into French. The webinar was attended, aside from the author, by René De […]

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Iveco opens vehicle factory in Ivory Coast

An assembly unit of Iveco Daily motor vehicles was recently inaugurated in Abidjan, at the factory of the local transportation company Sotra-Industries. The new plant is expected to churn out over 1,000 units per year and will manufacture the minibus version of the Daily model, aptly renamed Daily Ivoire. The new vehicles will run on […]

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The collective effort to face global challenges: Undersecretary Benedetto Della Vedova speaks at PACE

25 January 2022. The Council of Europe is a fundamental part of the collective effort to face the global challenges ahead of us. This is how Undersecretary Benedetto Della Vedova started his speech today, Tuesday, 25 January, as acting President of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe during the first part of […]

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Beirut, May al Khalil was awarded the Star of Italy

The Ambassador of Italy to the Lebanon, Nicoletta Bombardiere, awarded the honour ofKnight of the Order of the Star of Italy to May al Khalil, founder and President of the Beirut Marathon Association, in recognition of her contribution to the development and promotion of sport as an instrument for prosperity and resilience of the Lebanese society. […]

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day in San Francisco, a film on Moshe Bejski

The documentary film that tells the story of Moshe Bejski, the man who for many years was the President of the Israeli Commission in charge of preserving the memory of those who helped save the lives of Jews during the Shoah, will be screened by the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco from 27 January to […]

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day in São Paulo, a documentary film by Giorgio Treves

On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Italian Cultural Institute in São Paulo will make available in streaming, with English subtitles, the docufilm “1938: Diversi” by Giorgio Treves, from 27 January to 25 February. The docufilm tells what the promulgation of the racial laws meant for Italian Jews and how both the Jewish and non-Jewish […]

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Latest developments in Burkina Faso

Italy follows with concern the situation that is unfolding in Burkina Faso. It firmly reaffirms its disapproval of the use of force as an instrument for taking power and calls for respect for the republican institutions, in the hope that constitutional order may be re-established as soon as possible.

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“Orfeo” opens the Italian cultural season in Zagreb

The Italian Ambassador to Croatia, Pierfrancesco Sacco, opened the 2022 Italian cultural season with “Orfeo”, an opera by Nicola Porpora and performed at the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb. After its world premiere in Vienna on 22 January last, the opera has travelled to Zagreb thanks to the cooperation between the Italian Cultural Institute in […]

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