Stockholm: the Italian Cultural Institute launches “Valori in corso” (Values in progress)

The Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm has launched the initiative “Valori in corso” (Values in progress) inspired to Decameron, a collection of stories written by Giovanni Boccaccio, who used as plot device to make the stories been told by seven women and three boys who took refuge in the countryside around Florence to escape from […]

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Del Re: “Global Commitment for Cooperators Abroad” (Avvenire magazine)

We are also working for international volunteers. We are doing so on several fronts, “so that all our compatriots who are not resident abroad can return to Italy, wherever there is a clear will or need to do it”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated. The urgent need to think about evacuation plans for the […]

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Libya

Italy welcomes the decision of the Libyan Government of National Accord and of the Libyan National Army to accept a humanitarian truce aiming at countering possible Coronavirus spread in the country.  Now is the time for cooperation and mutual support, not the time for indiscriminate attacks causing innocent victims and terrorising the civilian population while […]

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Message of Minister Di Maio

“Doctors, nurses and social workers are currently suffering from a lack of protective equipment, especially masks. Such suffering is real not only for medical staff but also for our law enforcement and rescue forces, our military and the many entrepreneurs and workers in the factories. Dear servants of the State, I hope that these words […]

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The Palace of the Municipality of Kyiv lights up of Italy

The City of Kyiv and the Embassy of Italy join together in underlining the extraordinary commitment and the proximity between Ukraine and Italy in the enormous effort underway to deal with the health emergency, as evidenced by the Town Hall illuminated by the Italian flag as a sign of solidarity! We need initiatives like this […]

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Sereni: thanks to #WeAreItaly artists

“I want to thank all the artists and personalities from the world of culture who have joined #WeAreItaly – #staytunedonIT to support our country at this time. This was Marina Sereni’s statement, the Deputy Foreign Minister in charge of cultural promotion, about the campaign launched yesterday by the Foreign Ministry and addressed to the international […]

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Sereni: thanks to #WeAreItaly artists

“I want to thank all the artists and personalities from the world of culture who have joined #WeAreItaly – #staytunedonIT to support our country at this time. This was Marina Sereni’s statement, the Deputy Foreign Minister in charge of cultural promotion, about the campaign launched yesterday by the Foreign Ministry and addressed to the international […]

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Telephone conversation between Minister Di Maio and the Greek Foreign Minister, Nikos Dendias

On 20 March 2020 the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, had a telephone conversation with the Greek Foreign Minister, Nikos Dendias.

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Italy China – Scientific and Technological Collaboration: Action Plan towards 2025

A study on scientific and technological cooperation with China, addressed to industries, universities and research institutions, which presents the issues on which to focus the efforts of the next five years.  The document – which renews MAECI’s commitment to the coordination of bilateral cooperation with China – was created with the contribution of the Italian […]

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Export Authorisation – Personal Protective Equipment

Please note that pursuant to Regulation (EU) no. 568 of 23 April 2020, in view of the protracted epidemiological crisis and the need to ensure the European Union the availability of personal protective equipment referred to in Annex 1 of the aforementioned Regulation, the export of the same to non-EU countries will continue to be […]

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Sereni: “Italian foreign policy at the time of the Coronavirus”” (formiche.net)

Marina Sereni, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Pd political party: “We need to review the industrial strategy with national security in mind. We must pay attention to certain stories.” “”We are living a peculiar situation; we pass form hours of total frenzy,  consider, for example, the difficulties in organising the return of Italians […]

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs launches the campaign #WeAreItaly

The campaign #WeAreItaly #StayTunedOnIt launched by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to promote the most creative and vital Italy in the world in the days of the Coronavirus has just started.  Andrea Bocelli, Uto Ughi, Tiziano Ferro, Paolo Fresu, Ada Montellanico, Nek, Andrea Griminelli, Rita Marcotulli, Fabrizio Bosso and many others have joined the initiative […]

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