IIC Belgrade: L’Italia come non l’avete mai vista exhibition

The Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade, in cooperation with the Library “Centar za kulturu” in Kladovo and the Art’epok Association, presents the photo exhibition “L’Italia come non l’avete mai vista” (Italy as you have never seen it before), which is open from August 10th to 30th in Kladovo at the Library “Centar za kulturu”. The […]

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Telephone conversation between Minister Luigi Di Maio and Lebanese Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe

Today Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio had a telephone conversation with Lebanese Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe, to whom he expressed sincere condolences and the greatest solidarity for the violent explosion that hit Beirut last Tuesday. “We are ready to respond to the most urgent need and to provide the necessary assistance” the Minister affirmed, recalling […]

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Minister Di Maio’s telephone conversation with Foreign Minister of Colombia Claudia Blum Capurro De Barberi

Today the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had a new telephone conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Claudia Blum Capurro De Barberi, regarding Paciolla affair. To his colleague, the Minister reiterated Italian government’s strong expectation that the investigation could rapidly shed light on Mario Paciolla’s death cause […]

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Minister Di Maio’s telephone conversation with Foreign Minister of Kosovo Meliza Haradinaj-Stublla

This morning the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had a telephone conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora of the Republic of Kosovo, Meliza Haradinaj-Stubbla. The conversation – the first after the inauguration of the new Executive in Prishtina – offered the opportunity to examine the various strands […]

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Appointment of Professor Maria Chiara Malaguti to UNIDROIT President

The Commission in charge – in accordance with art. 5 of the Notice for the collection of expression of willingness to hold the office of President of Unidroit published on 8th January – having concluded the work of examining the expression of willingness to hold the office of President of UNIDROIT, today the Minister of […]

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Lebanon: humanitarian flight with medical supplies to Beirut

This morning, a humanitarian flight to Beirut, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International cooperation, encouraged by the Deputy Minister Del Re, together with the Civil Protection Department and the Joint Operations Headquarters departed from the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Brindisi, in response to requests for assistance from the Lebanese […]

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IIC Sydney: the “Retrospective Fellini” festival

The Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney presents a retrospective dedicated to the great director Federico Fellini, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth (1920-2020). Federico Fellini was undoubtedly one of the most important figures in world cinematography. From his beginnings in cinema, alongside Mr Rossellini as co-screenwriter in the unforgettable season of Neorealism […]

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Ms Del Re: “Alongside the Lebanese: cooperation and dialogue avoid radicalism” (Avvenire)

Emanuela Claudia Del Re is in the middle of coordinating Italian aid to Lebanon. Not only because she is Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (M5s). As an expert sociologist in international politics, she has followed for several years, since 2010, a reconciliation project in the Lebanon’s Tripoli. And she is confident about the […]

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Interview of Minister Di Maio to Repubblica

DI MAIO: «THE MAJORITY PARTIES WILL FIND AN AGREEMENT AND WE WON’T NEED FORZA ITALIA» ROME – Luigi Di Maio understands why the electoral reform law proposal has created such a stir within the Democratic Party and the haste to adopt a proportional system before the referendum on reducing the number of MPs. Regarding the so-called “security […]

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Minister Di Maio’s telephone conversation with Turkish Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu

Today the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had a telephone conversation with the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, during which the two Ministers expressed their common intention to strengthen cooperation between Italy and Turkey, based on a positive agenda. In this framework, the Joint Economic and Trade Commission […]

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São Paulo: Design in pigiama, a history of Italian design

The cycle Design in pigiama is a story of Italian design conceived by Chiara Alessi, journalist and professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan, during the weeks of Italian lockdown. In Brazil, the initiative is organised by Consulate General of Italy in São Paulo, the Italian Cultural Institute in São Paulo and the Istituto Europeo […]

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IIC Lima: “Mario Luzi and Latin American Literature”

The Italian Cultural Institute in Lima presents the virtual exhibition Mario Luzi e la letteratura latinoamericana (Mario Luzi and Latin American literature). The online exhibition brings two cultures into dialogue through the reviews that the famous Florentine poet and chronicler of the Corriere della Sera, Mario Luzi, made periodically on the novels that authors such […]

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