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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Libya: Italy expresses its firm support to Acting SRSG Williams’s appeal for a humanitarian truce

On the occasion of the beginning of Ramadan, the holy month for Islamic communities around the world, Italy expresses its firm support to the appeal launched by the Acting Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General, Stephanie Williams, for a humanitarian truce in Libya. Italy hopes that all Countries and International Organizations which participate in […]

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Note by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Farnesina)

“Rebecca will soon be transferred to the German or Swiss hospital of her family’s choice for a major operation. This has been possible thanks to the work of the Italian diplomatic network that has allowed the contact between both German and Swiss medical teams with the Italian doctors who are treating Rebecca, following Minister Di […]

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Coronavirus: the embrace of the UNGSC in Brindisi

More than 20,000 euros were collected on the initiative of the United Nations Global Service Centre (UNGSC), the UN base hosted by Italy in Brindisi, as a contribution to the fight against the Coronavirus. The donations collected by the UNGSC staff have been used to provide devices and personal protective equipment for Perrino Hospital and […]

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