Madrid: 7 projects awarded by young creatives

Seven projects by students and young professionals were honoured in Madrid as part of activities connected to Italian Design Day 2020 and Madrid Design Festival. It is the result of the competition “Design – A journey between Italy and Spain”, organized by the Italian Embassy in Madrid and the General Consulate in Barcelona.  The seven […]

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Football on the field in Jordan for Syrian refugees

Cooperation, footballers and NGOs on the field in Jordan for an initiative in support of Syrian refugees and the host community.These are the first joint activities following  the Memorandum of Understanding between MAECI / DGCS, the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation and the Italian Footballers Association, which has been signed at the Farnesina on 19 […]

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Di Maio at Flumeri: “here we’re winning a difficult battle” (il Quotidiano del Sud)

Born in Avellino, in the Malzoni Clinic, Luigi di Maio returns as Foreign Minister. This return home, after two days spent in Naples, comes after a successful career first as political chief of he 5 Star Movement and, today, as the Italian Foreign Minister. This will be a whistlestop tour of the province of Avellino, […]

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Italian Economic Diplomacy February 27: latest news from the world

BRAZIL – GOVERNMENT PLANS INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS IN THE OIL AND GAS SECTOR The Minister of Energy, Bento Albuquerque presented the Ten Year Energy Expansion Plan 2029, a planning document prepared annually by the EPE, Empresa de Pesquisa Energetica, a research centre attached to the Ministry of Energy, with the aim of indicating the prospects for […]

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Training of Burkina Faso diplomats in Rome

In the presence of their colleagues from the the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Farnesina), the diplomas were awarded to eight Burkinabe diplomats who, from 17 to 21 February, attended the Master in Geopolitics and International Relations at the SIOI in Rome. The intense training program ranged from international law to the international protection of human […]

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Meeting of Minister Luigi Di Maio with his Ethiopian counterpart Gedu Andargachew

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, met today at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Farnesina) with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, Gedu Andargachew. The talks were focused on the Horn of Africa regions, where the joint commitment of Italy and Ethiopia for stabilization and institutional and economic development […]

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Scalfarotto at the “Collection Première Moscow” Fair

Under-Secretary Ivan Scalfarotto attended the Collection Première exhibition in Moscow, the most famous fashion show in Russia and Eastern Europe. The feedback received from Russian and Belarusian operators was very positive for a sector such as Italian fashion, which in 2019 achieved a turnover of 1.4 billion euros in Russia, recording growth in exports of […]

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Scalfarotto at the “Collection Première Moscow” Fair

Under-Secretary Ivan Scalfarotto attended the Collection Première exhibition in Moscow, the most famous fashion show in Russia and Eastern Europe. The feedback received from Russian and Belarusian operators was very positive for a sector such as Italian fashion, which in 2019 achieved a turnover of 1.4 billion euros in Russia, recording growth in exports of […]

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Press accreditation notice – Information notice on Coronavirus emergency (Rome, Associazione Stampa Estera, February 27, 2020, 10.30 am)

Tomorrow Thursday February, 27 2020, at about 10.30am, at Associazione Stampa Estera (Foreign Press Association), Via dell’Umiltà, 83 / C, the information notice on the Coronavirus emergency (COVID-19) will be held in order to transmit with maximum transparency correct and updated news on the real impact of Coronavirus in Italy. The Minister of Foreign Affairs […]

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Italian Economic Diplomacy February 26: latest news from the world

TURKEY – INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS IN 2020 The Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Cahit Turhan announced that tenders for significant infrastructure projects will be launched in 2020. Of particular interest is the announcement for this year of the tender for the construction of the “Istanbul Canal”. It is a new artificial channel at sea level, 45 […]

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Press Release – Response to the epidemiological emergency from Covid-19

The response of the Italian Government to tackle epidemiological emergency from COVID-19 has been timely, as also acknowledged by theWHO and the EU and it has been mainly based on maximum transparency and clarity towards the national community and international partners. We are also working with our neighbours to develop harmonised protocols and shared lines […]

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14 European Foreign Ministers: Syria, ending the humanitarian disaster in Idlib

Idlib is experiencing a new humanitarian disaster, one of the worst of the Syrian crisis which, in nearly a decade, has counted countless similar disasters. The Syrian regime continues its strategy of military reconquest of the country at any cost, regardless of the consequences for Syrian civilians. Since December, its operations in the north-west have […]

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