Deputy Minister Di Stefano in Brussels for the EU Foreign Affairs-Trade Council

Deputy Minister Manlio Di Stefano participated today in the EU Foreign Affairs and Trade Council meeting in Brussels. The critical meeting takes place the day after the conclusion of the G20 Trade Council in Sorrento and a few weeks before the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial in Geneva at the end of November (MC12). The […]

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PNRR: until 3 December, subsidised funding for export-oriented SMEs

The National Recovery and Resilience Plan has made available 800 million euros in subsidised funding and 400 million in non-repayable grants for Italian SMEs oriented towards foreign markets through the 394/81 Fund managed by SIMEST. The instruments available to companies are: Digital and ecological transition of SMEs with an international vocation Subsidised funding for investments […]

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Foreign Ministry Note: Italian citizen Alberto Livoni

The Italian Embassy in Addis Ababa, in close connection with the Italian Foreign Ministry in Rome, is very closely following the case of our compatriot Alberto Livoni, who is in detention at the Addis Ababa Police Commission. We are providing him with all necessary assistance and are in contact with the competent local authorities and […]

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Tirana: Italian productions on stage at the 16th Albania Dance Meeting-Festival

The Italian Cultural Institute of Tirana collaborated on the organisation of two performances as part of the 16th “Albania Dance Meeting-Festival”. Both productions, by the Sosta Palmizi Association in Kosovo and Albania, were staged on Wednesday 10 November at the Experimental Theatre in Tirana. The first, entitled “Wabi-Sabi” (from the Japanese), was choreographed by Sofia […]

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“Start-up Africa Road Trip” in Kampala – training for 20 start-ups

The Italian Embassy in Kampala has supported the “Start-up Africa Road Trip” training project, aimed at 20 local start-ups, mainly in Uganda, but also open to participants from other East African Countries. This initiative, which ran from 1 to 5 November in the Ugandan capital, received a financial and logistics contribution not only from the […]

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Signing of Protocol for humanitarian corridors from Afghanistan

The Director-General for Italians Migration Policies, Luigi Maria Vignali, signed today on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation the Protocol to implement “Humanitarian Corridors/Evacuations for Afghanistan”. The ceremony, held at the Palazzo del Viminale, was attended by the Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgese. Signatories to the agreement, in addition to […]

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Italy at Expoqueijo Brasil 2021

Italy participated in the Expoqueijo Brasil 2021 – International Cheese Awards, the most important cheese competition in Brazil, held a few days ago in Araxà, a city in the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais. The gold medal went to a cheese from the Piedmont region of Italy: Bra Duro DOP, and at the inaugural ceremony […]

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Minister Di Maio’s participation in the ministerial meeting on the response to Covid-19

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, participated today by videoconference in the ministerial meeting on the response to Covid-19 (“Covid-19 Ministerial”), convened by the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, as a follow-up to the “Covid-19 Summit” hosted by President Biden on the sidelines of the 76th UN General Assembly. […]

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Montevideo: a conference on Anita Garibaldi

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of her birth, the Embassy of Italy in Montevideo, together with the Italian Cultural Institute, organised a conference on 4 November at the Museum of Visual Arts on the life and work of  Anita Garibaldi, the famous wife of the Italian soldier, revolutionary and politician, Giuseppe Garibaldi. This celebration of […]

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A visit to the IILA projects by the Ambassador of Italy to the Dominican Republic

The Italian Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Stefano Queirolo Palmas, recently visited the Technology Transfer and Vocational Training Project at the San Ignacio de Loyola Institute (ITESIL) in Dajabón (on the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti), which is being implemented by the International Italo-Latin American Organisation (IILA) thanks to Italian funding from the […]

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Madrid, an exhibition of “Dantesque Illustrations in the World 1983-2021”

An exhibition entitled “Hyper modern Dante: Dantesque illustrations in the World 1983-2021” has been organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid, under the aegis of the Italian Embassy in Madrid, in collaboration with the Società Dantesca Italiana and the ADI (Italianists’ Association). The event, set up on the Institute’s premises, will run from 11 […]

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Brussels, 08 November. Second appointment in the series “Conversazioni in piazza” with Benedetta Craveri

Belgium. Organised by the Italian Embassy in Brussels and the Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels, the cycle of “Conversazioni in Piazza” (Conversations in the square) featuring Italian journalists, essayists, writers, critics and scientists in conversation with representatives of the Belgian and international scene, is continuing in the two “Italian squares” (the Italian Cultural Institute and […]

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