Di Maio: “How Italian exports have achieved record results” (Milano Finanza)

I would like to share with you and your readers some thoughts on the figures relating to Italian exports in recent months and on the Foreign Ministry’s contribution to the achievement of this result. After the deep recession recorded last year, 2021 is confirming itself as a year of transition, characterised – albeit with significant […]

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Election of Professor Nesi to the United Nations Commission on International Law

After more than ten years, an Italian academic has returned to the prestigious United Nations Commission on International Law. With 152 votes Giuseppe Nesi, Professor of International Law at the University of Trento, has just been elected by the UN General Assembly in New York to the critical body of 34 jurists whose delicate task […]

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Deputy Minister Di Stefano opens new round of Sectoral Tables with Manufacturing Associations

Deputy Minister Manlio Di Stefano opened the new round of Sectoral Tables with productive associations in the virtual format today. “To face the challenges related to internationalisation, never before have we needed so much direct interaction between the State and the private sector as in this era,” said the Deputy Minister at the opening. The […]

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Lusaka: webinar on ‘’Art and Energy’’

The Embassy of Italy in Zambia has organised an event on “ART and Energy” today, in Lusaka, addressing two themes: how to build a renewable future for Zambia and what kind of energy comes from art.  With the participation of the Zambian Minister of Energy, Hon. Peter Kapala, and the Secretary General of the Common […]

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Toronto: Artemis Danza in Dante’s Inferno

For the first time the Italian Cultural Institute of Toronto presents a show by the Italian contemporary dance company Artemis Danza, as part of the programme of events and celebrations for the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death. The dancers will accompany the audience on an extravagant journey into Dante’s Inferno with choreographic scenes dedicated […]

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Estonia: 3TI Progetti Italia Spa and ATI Project Srl sign a contract for designing a new hospital in Tallinn

The contractors 3TI Progetti Italia SpA of Rome and ATI Project srl of Pisa have signed the contract for designing a new hospital in Tallinn, after being awarded, as a consortium, the recent international tender for the most economically advantageous bid of 17.5 million euros. The Tallinn hospital project features the construction of a “city […]

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Paris and Berlin: 3 days to remember Andrea Zanzotto

As part of the initiatives for the centenary of Andrea Zanzotto’s birth, the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris is organising a conference from 25 to 27 November. The aim is to project the literary and intellectual figure of a writer who is too often reduced to a local Italian and Venetian matrix on to the […]

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A lecture in Moscow about Venetian banquets in the 18th century

In 18th-century Venice, festivities and banquets were so sumptuous that nowadays we consider that period one of the liveliest epochs of Venetian culture. On November 26, thanks to an initiative of the Italian Institute of Culture in Moscow, Ekaterina Igošina, art historian and director of the scientific library of the A.S. Puškin State Fine Arts […]

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FOREIGN MINISTRY NOTE – Launch day of the “Albergo Etico” (Ethical Hotel) project. Meeting on 16 November at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Sala Aldo Moro)

On Tuesday, 16 November, at 10:00, the “Albergo Etico” (Ethical Hotel) project will be presented in the Sala Aldo Moro at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The event will be attended by Senator Erika Stefani, Minister for Disabilities, the Hon. Manlio Di Stefano, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the […]

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London: Dante’s Inferno illustrated by Botticelli

For the first time in London, on 16 November, it will be possible to admire a decorated example of the first edition of the Divine Comedy, printed in 1481 in Florence, with 20 engravings based on drawings by Sandro Botticelli. To conclude the celebrations for the Year of Dante, the Italian Ambassador in London, Raffaele […]

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Tunis: staging contemporary Italian dance

The Italian Cultural Institute in Tunis presents the first Italian Contemporary Dance Platform, “D’accordo”, at the Tunis Opera House, a project that aims both to present contemporary dance to the Tunisian public and to create opportunities for sharing artistic expertise. The event, organised in partnership with the Tunis Opera House, which has included it in […]

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Minister Luigi Di Maio participates in the celebrations for the 75th anniversary of UNESCO

Luigi Di Maio, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, is participating in the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of UNESCO. Education, science and culture are at the heart of the multilateral action taken by Italy, which has traditionally been committed to the protection of cultural and natural heritage, also during Italy’s Presidency of […]

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