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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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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