Bangladesh: Di Stefano: intensify economic relations

The Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Manlio Di Stefano, received at the Farnesina the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh, Abdul Momen. The Undersecretary firstly recognised the positive contribution made to Italy’s economy and society by the Bangladeshi diaspora (amounting to 140,000 people, the largest community in continental Europe). Di Stefano then recalled […]

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Di Stefano receives the Foreign Minister of Bangladesh: intensify economic relations

The Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Manlio Di Stefano, received at the Farnesina the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh, Abdul Momen. The Undersecretary firstly recognised the positive contribution made to Italy’s economy and society by the Bangladeshi diaspora (amounting to 140,000 people, the largest community in continental Europe). Di Stefano then recalled […]

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The Farnesina hosts a meeting on the safety of foreigners in an emergency

The Crisis Unit and the Civil Protection Department, together with Ministry of the Interior, organised a meeting at the Farnesina with the members of the Consular and Diplomatic Corps accredited to Italy to discuss national procedures to manage serious emergencies and to provide assistance to the foreign citizens involved. Taking advantage of the opportunity offered […]

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The Italian Language Week in the World: Boccaccio’s Decameron in Yangon

To celebrate the Italian Language Week in the World, the Italian Embassy in Yangon staged a theatre performance based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron to honour the theme of this year’s edition “Italian on Stage” and to pay tribute to the father of Italian literature in prose. The re-adaptation of Boccaccio’s masterpiece in a modern key […]

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Week of Italian Language: Washington hosts a conference on “The Secrets of Traviata”, with Maestro Speranza Scappucci

On the occasion of the 19th edition of the “Week of Italian Language in the World”, the Italian Embassy organised, in cooperation with the Italian Cultural Institute, a conference on the Secrets of La Traviata, with Conductor Ms Speranza Scappucci, to take place in the Embassy’s Auditorium.  Revolutionary, controversial, lashing the bourgeois society: this and […]

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Italian lights up the stage at the Palladium Tehatre in Rome

The Italian language goes on stage today at Rome’s Teatro Palladium, an event organised within the framework of the “19th Week of the Italian Language in the World”, an initiative promoted every year by the Farnesina. Roma Tre University has organised a focus on language, art and poetry with the participation of Italian and foreign […]

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Italian Economic Diplomacy, 25 October: latest news from the world

Thailand. signing of the contract for the high speed railway connecting three airports The State Railway of Thailand signed in Bangkok a Memorandum of Understanding with the consortium led by the Thai CP Group for the implementation of the ‘High Speed Rail Linking the Three Airports Project’. Italy’s Ferrovie dello Stato is part of the […]

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Afghanistan: Nangarhar: an Italian oil mill has been delivered ​

Oil production has started at the Nangarhar Valley Agriculture Corporation in Jalalabad, which since August 26 has an oil mill donated by Italian Cooperation. Besides the assembly and testing of the equipment that was transported to Afghanistan by the Italian Ministry of Defense, the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation has provided training sessions for the […]

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Information notice – 26th Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

​It is hereby noted that within the framework of the Slovak Presidency of the OSCE, the 26th Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will take place from 5 to 6 December 2019 in Bratislava.       The representatives of the media interested in covering the event will be […]

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Limelights on the Italian language at Rome’s Teatro Palladium

The Italian language goes on stage today at Rome’s Teatro Palladium, an event organised within the framework of the “19th Week of the Italian Language in the World”, an initiative promoted every year by the Farnesina. Roma Tre University has organised a focus on language, art and poetry with the participation of Italian and foreign […]

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Sereni at the OSCE: the Mediterranean offers challenges and opportunities

The Mediterranean dimension of security presents both challenges and opportunities; faced with this scenario, we are all required to engage in a renewed and deeper partnership and a long-term vision. This was stated by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Marina Sereni, in Tirana at the OSCE annual Mediterranean conference, as member of […]

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Lisbon: ‘A window on the the Farnesina Contemporary Art Collection’

Over the next two months, it will be possible to admire 15 works from the Farnesina Contemporary Art Collection at the Museu Nacional dos Coches of Lisbon. The exhibition, ‘A window on the the Farnesina Contemporary Art Collection. 15 Works’, curated by Angela Tecce and organised by the Italian Cultural Institute under the patronage of […]

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