Press accreditation note – Meeting of the 8th Situation Room for Internationalisation (Farnesina, 20 September 2019)

The Meeting of the 8th Situation Room for Internationalisation will be held on ​Friday, December 20, 2019, from 4.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m., at the Farnesina. The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, and the Minister of Economic Development, Stefano Patuanelli will deliver the opening addresses, followed by the contributions by Teresa Bellanova, […]

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Sao Paulo: M° Veronesi in concert with the Heliopolis Symphony Orchestra

The Heliopolis Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Alberto Veronesi and the voices of Paoletta Marrocu and Amadi Lagha were the stars of the traditional Christmas Concert organised by the Italian Consulate General at the Municipal Theatre of Sao Paulo. The Theatre recorded a full house with 1,500 spectators who appreciated the decision to combine great Italian professionals […]

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Buenos Aires: on show the exhibition Italy: the Beauty of Knowledge

For three weeks, the Kirchner Cultural Centre in Buenos Aires hosted the exhibition “Italy: the Beauty of Knowledge”, promoted and financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and designed by the National Research Council together with Italy’s four major science museums:   the City of Science in Naples, the Muse in Trento, the […]

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Central European Initiative (CEI) Summit Meeting of the Heads of Government

The Central European Initiative (CEI) Summit Meeting of the Heads of Government is taking place at the Farnesina. The meeting is chaired by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte alongside the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Marina Sereni. Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, North Macedonia, Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Czech […]

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Di Maio: «On Libya we need realism. Italy does not take sides in this war» (la Repubblica)

Minister Di Maio, you admitted that we have lost our role in Libya. We have disappeared from Tripoli for eight months. They must be upset. «I won’t hide the fact that we must make up for it and we have to do it through a concrete and more realistic approach to the situation on the […]

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Di Maio and Guterres in Brindisi for the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Global Service Center (UNGSC)

Today, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luigi Di Maio, together with the United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, will attend the ceremony of the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Global Service Center (UNGSC) in Brindisi. The UNGSC is the facility that provides logistics, geospatial intelligence, IT and Telecommunication services to all UN operations, and […]

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Great success for the “De Rome à Paris” film festival

The “De Rome à Paris” film festival held in Paris from 13 to 17 December has just wound up. The festival is entirely dedicated to Italian film productions and is co-organised by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities (MIBAC) and ANICA (National Association of Film and Audiovisual Industry) in partnership with the Italian Embassy […]

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Rio de Janeiro: seminar on the circular economy and sustainability

The Italian Consulate General in Rio de Janeiro hosted a first seminar on “Circular Economy and Sustainability. Technologies for the Future”, organised by the Government of the State of Rio de Janeiro.   On opening the seminar, Consul General Paolo Miraglia del Giudice, after recalling that Italy will co-chair the COP 26 in 2020 with the United Kingdom, […]

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6th Session of the Joint Committee for Development Cooperation

6th Annual Session of the Joint Committee for Development Cooperation​Rome, 18 December 2019. Today, the Farnesina hosted the sixth annual meeting of the Joint Committee for Development Cooperation, the second chaired by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, in conjunction with Deputy Minister, Emanuela Del Re. The Joint Committee approved […]

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6th Session of the Joint Committee for Development Cooperation

6th Annual Session of the Joint Committee for Development Cooperation​Rome, 18 December 2019. Today, the Farnesina hosted the sixth annual meeting of the Joint Committee for Development Cooperation, the second chaired by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, in conjunction with Deputy Minister, Emanuela Del Re. The Joint Committee approved […]

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Minister Luigi Di Maio: Question time in Parliament

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, will be in Parliament today to answer questions on the initiatives taken to solve the Libyan crisis, also in light of the recent meetings with Libyan representatives.

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Del Re: Migrants – evacuation from Libya a must

​Speaking at the Global Summit on Refugees in Geneva, Deputy Minister Del Re called for “an international initiative to promote the Italian model of humanitarian corridors for a more comprehensive migration policy, in particular to ensure the evacuation of migrants from Libya”. Del Re presented the government’s lines of action on its migration and reception […]

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