Rabat: “Waiting for the Cooking Week: Cinema is served”

On the occasion of the “Week of Italian Cuisine in the World”, scheduled from 22 to 28 November next, the Italian Cultural Institute of Rabat organised “Waiting for the Cooking Week: Cinema is served (Aspettando la Settimana della Cucina: Il Cinema e’ servito)”, a review of five films, proposed from 15 to 19 November 2021, […]

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The sixth edition of the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World kicks off in the USA

The sixth edition of the Week of Italian Cuisine in the world, an initiative promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation worldwide, is part of the renewed post-pandemic confidence, the resumption of transatlantic travel and the revival of trade between Italy and the US. The focus of the 2021 edition is Italian […]

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Telephone conversation between Minister Luigi Di Maio and his Ethiopian counterpart, Demeke Mekonnen Hassen

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, held telephone talks with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Demeke Mekonnen. The talks focused on the situation in the country. Italy reiterated its support for the mediation efforts of the African Union’s High […]

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Telephone conversation between Minister Luigi Di Maio and the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Amir-Abdollahian

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, held telephone talks with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Amir-Abdollahian. The talks focused on the resumption of the JCPOA negotiations, bilateral relations and developments in Afghanistan.      

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“Enchanting Architecture”, the story of the IIC building in Stockholm

“Enchanting Architecture” is the title of a historical publication about the construction of the Italian Institute of Culture’s home in Stockholm, one of the most representative Italian buildings abroad, designed and furnished in the Fifties by Gio Ponti at the initiative of the engineer and industrialist, Carlo Maurilio Lerici, who also contributed significantly to financing […]

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Italy to be guest of honor at the book fair in the United Arab Emirates

Italy will be the guest of honor at the 2022 edition of the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF),  one of the top book fairs in the world for number of exhibitors (1600, from 83 countries) and number of volumes exhibited, but above all for number of agreements relative to sales of translation rights. Italy’s participation […]

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Minister Di Maio in Brussels for the Foreign Affairs Council

Minister Luigi Di Maio is in Brussels to participate in the EU Foreign Affairs Council. The work will focus on the most important current issues, including recent developments in the Western Balkan region and the situation in the Sahel. Minister Di Maio will also take part in the Ministerial meeting of the Eastern Partnership.A joint […]

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On Thursday 18 November 2021, starting at 11.00, the sixth “Week of Italian Cuisine in the World” will be presented at Palazzo della Farnesina, the Foreign Ministry building

The main theme of this 6th edition, which combines the promotion of Italian agri-food products with the enhancement of the Mediterranean Diet as a healthy and sustainable diet and lifestyle model, is “Tradition and perspectives of Italian cuisine: the awareness and enhanced appreciation of food sustainability”. This event, which will take place from 22 to […]

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Minister Di Maio in Brussels for the Foreign Affairs Council

Minister Luigi Di Maio will be travelling to Brussels to participate in the EU Foreign Affairs Council tomorrow. The work will focus on the most important current issues, including recent developments in the Western Balkan region and the situation in the Sahel. Minister Di Maio will also take part in the Ministerial meeting of the […]

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Update to the regulations on diplomatic and service passports

With the adoption by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, of a measure that has come into force today, updating the rules on diplomatic and service passports to better protect the needs of family members of staff of the Foreign Ministry and the other Administrations serving abroad in the diplomatic-consular […]

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Vice Minister Sereni visits the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain

The visit of Deputy Minister Marina Sereni to the UAE and Bahrain begins tomorrow. Vice Minister Sereni will remain until November 18 and during her mission to the Emirates she will have various official meetings and talks with representatives of politics, the economic world, and culture, as well as with representatives of civil society. She […]

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Minister Luigi Di Maio participates at the annual meeting of Medici per l’Africa CUAMM

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, participated today in Padua at the annual meeting of Medici per l’Africa CUAMM (Doctors for Africa). The 2021 edition, entitled “Ripartire” (Getting Started Again), discussed the resumption of activities following the most acute stage of the pandemic, and the relaunching of CUAMM’s work in […]

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