IIC Chicago: the seminar “Arte Povera: Ecologies”.

The Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago presents the conference on Zoom Arte Povera: Ecologies, with art historian Giovanni Aloi. In recent years, the contemporary art world has developed a growing attention to environmental issues and climate change. The Arte Povera movement, however, began to take an interest in trees, water and indiscriminate urbanization as early […]

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Di Stefano holds video talk with Vietnamese Hoang Quoc Vuong

Undersecretary Manlio Di Stefano held a video talk today with the Vietnamese Deputy Industry and Trade Minister Hoang Quoc Vuong.  The talk was an opportunity to sign the new Memorandum of Understanding on the Italian-Vietnamese Mixed Economic Commission (MEC), as well as to take stock of bilateral economic relations in view of the next MEC […]

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Video talk between Undersecretary Manlio Di Stefano and Vietnamese Deputy Industry and Trade Minister Hoang Quoc Vuong

Undersecretary Manlio Di Stefano held a video talk today with the Vietnamese Deputy Industry and Trade Minister Hoang Quoc Vuong.  The talk was an opportunity to sign the new Memorandum of Understanding on the Italian-Vietnamese Mixed Economic Commission (MEC), as well as to take stock of bilateral economic relations in view of the next MEC […]

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Paris, Ambassador Castaldo at the Pompeii exhibition opening

The Italian Ambassador to France, Teresa Castaldo, together with the Minister of Culture Franck Riester inaugurated yesterday the Pompeii exhibition at the Grand Palais Museum in Paris. Also present were former Minister of Culture Jack Lang, the Director-General of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, Massimo Osanna, the President of the Réunion des muséesnationaux et du […]

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Humanitarian aid to Ukraine from Italy

Italy has airlifted an initial load of relief supplies and equipment to Ukraine, on the basis of a request received from the Government in Kiev, following the heavy storms and floods that have battered the country in recent days, causing large-scale destruction of roads and other infrastructure particularly in the western regions of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk […]

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Minister Di Maio speaks at the IV Brussels Conference on Syria

Minister Di Maio spoke today by video conference at the Fourth Brussels Conference on Syria, an event sponsored by the European Union and the United Nations with the aim of raising the necessary funds to tackle the humanitarian and health emergency in Syria and neighbouring countries and reaffirm the international community’s support for a negotiated […]

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Belarus: Webinar on potential economic partnership

The Ambassador of Italy in Minsk, Mario Baldi, participated today in the webinar “Belarus-Italy: economic cooperation in the face of global challenges”, organized by the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The online seminar was dedicated to take stock of the economic situation in Belarus and the potential of the partnership with Italy. “We must […]

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Belarus: Webinar on potential economic partnership

The Ambassador of Italy in Minsk, Mario Baldi, participated today in the webinar “Belarus-Italy: economic cooperation in the face of global challenges”, organized by the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The online seminar was dedicated to take stock of the economic situation in Belarus and the potential of the partnership with Italy. “We must […]

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Di Maio: “Europe has responded to the crisis. Now it’s up to the government to live up to it.” (La Stampa)

Europe has responded strongly to the crisis, and I have confidence in Ursula Von der Leyen. Now it is up to the Italian government to prove to be capable of managing the challenge. At the age of 33, Luigi Di Maio lived many lives. In the latter, as foreign minister, he discovered that the cruel […]

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Meeting of Minister Di Maio with the Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjártó

Today at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the bilateral meeting between Minister Di Maio and the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Péter Szijjártó, visiting Italy, took place at the Farnesina, seat of the Ministry. Minister Di Maio, first, thanked Minister Szijjártó for the solidarity shown by the Hungarian Government that, in the most […]

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Lisbon, Francesco Carofiglio at the Literature Night

The 2020 edition of the European Literature Night, which cannot be held with the public due to the restrictions imposed by the COVID emergency, is presented for the first time in a different format that will be broadcast on the FM frequencies of a Portuguese radio station, SMOOTH FM, on the evenings of June 27th […]

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Participation of the Vice Minister Del Re at the Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies for the 20th anniversary of the Warsaw Declaration

Vice Deputy Minister Emanuela Del Re attended in virtual format the today’s ministerial conference of the Community of Democracies for the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Warsaw Declaration of 2000, signed by 106 countries, including Italy. In her speech, the Deputy Minister stressed the continuing validity of the Warsaw Declaration, reaffirming Italy’s commitment […]

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