Coronavirus, a new shipment of aid from Belgrade expected for today

A new shipment of medical aid donated by Serbia to Italy is due to arrive today at Fiumicino airport. A gesture of friendship, solidarity and gratitude from Belgrade towards Italy, which was one of the first countries to send aid to Serbia after the disastrous floods in May 2014, as the President of the Serbian […]

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Joint statement by the EU High Representative and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of France, Germany and Italy (source: EEAS)

Source: EEAS Libya: Joint statement by High Representative Josep Borrell and Foreign Ministers Jean-Yves Le Drian of France, Heiko Maas of Germany and Luigi Di Maio of Italy Brussels, 25/04/2020 – 11:45, UNIQUE ID: 200425_2 Joint Statements As participants to the Berlin process and in a renewed commitment to the Berlin conclusions, in this beginning […]

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Liberation Day

On the Anniversary of Italy’s Liberation we commemorate and celebrate the founding values of democratic life. Read the message of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella  

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Interview with La Stampa by Minister Di Maio

INTERVIEW WITH THE FOREIGN MINISTER: THE BATTLE IN EUROPE HAS JUST BEGUN. COLAO PREMIER? THIS POSSIBILITY DOES NOT EXIST Di Maio begins by saying: on the ESM it is possible to negotiate Sitting in his office at the Foreign Ministry seat, the Farnesina, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio uses the impersonal tone of a mathematician […]

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Corporate financing under the United States Government’s “Paycheck Protection Program”. Second tranche and access by foreign-owned U.S. companies

Washington, April 24, 2020. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) has introduced a wide range of instruments to mitigate the negative effects of Covid-19. Such tools range from loans and grants for businesses to measures in support of personal income, from the expansion of the social safety net to increased health […]

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Telephone conversation between Minister Di Maio and the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian

On 25 April 2020, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had a telephone conversation with the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian.

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs celebrates the International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace

Multilateralism is a pillar of Italian foreign policy. Only through dialogue and cooperation can the international Community find shared solutions and respond effectively to global challenges such as #COVIDー19.

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Lisbon: Air of Italy, Italian culture in a podcast

A conversation with jazz musician Massimo Cavalli will kick off on Thursday, April 30 with a new project by the Italian Cultural Institute of Lisbon. Aria d’Italia’ is a weekly podcast of 30 minutes in which the journalist Marcello Sacco presents Italian artists, writers and intellectuals to the Portuguese public and beyond.  The idea came […]

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International competition: The looking Glass and behind it

The Italian Cultural Institute of St. Petersburg and the MISP (Museum of Contemporary Art of St. Petersburg) have launched the competition ‘The looking Glass and Behind it’, dedicated to Italian artists of the 20th and 21st century: painters, sculptors, 3D artists. Interested artists will be able to send photographic documentation of their works and installations […]

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Covid19, thanks to the Ukrainian doctors with Puccini’s choir

The humming Choir from Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Madama Butterfly” as a tribute and thanks for the group of Ukrainian volunteer doctors who supported their Italian colleagues in the fight against Covid19 and who have now returned home. The project has been promoted and realized thanks to the collaboration between the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture, the […]

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Sereni: Cultural diplomacy is part of our foreign policy

“The contribution that the world of culture can give to the resumption of the promotion activities abroad of the Country System is decisive, not only for the value of the cultural activities themselves but also because it is precisely the action in the cultural field that defines the image and ‘narrative’ of Italy in the […]

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Sereni, cultural diplomacy an integral part of our foreign policy

“The contribution that the world of culture can give to the resumption of the promotion activities abroad of the Country System is decisive, not only for the value of the cultural activities themselves but also because it is precisely the action in the cultural field that defines the image and ‘narrative’ of Italy in the […]

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