Italian Economic Diplomacy, 29 October: latest news from the world

China launches new measures to improve the business environment  China’s State Council has launched new measures to improve the business environment which will be enforced as of 1st January 2020, aiming to streamline trade norms. The measure includes 72 articles which seek to reorganise the varioius reform measures announced in the past months, aligning the […]

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Italian Language Week: Italian and the Opera in Tashkent

Music, and especially opera music, was the key theme chosen by the Italian Embassy in Uzbekistan for the initiatives organised for the Italian Language Week in the World. The central event was the lecture in Tashkent on “Italian on Stage” by Maestro Daniele Agiman, professor of orchestral conducting at the G. Verdi Conservatory in Milan. In […]

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Del Re: another 2.5 million for Venezuelan refugees

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, attended the Solidarity Conference on the Venezuelan Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Brussels, co-organised by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, the Director General of the IOM, Antonio Vitorino, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo […]

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Del Re in Brussels: Italy gives another 2.5 million to help Venezuelan refugees

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, attended the Solidarity Conference on the Venezuelan Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Brussels, co-organised by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, the Director General of the IOM, Antonio Vitorino, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo […]

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Enrico Ianniello and the Teatri Riuniti Theatre Company in Seoul for the 19th Italian Language Week in the World

Italian actor and director Enrico Ianniello and the Teatri Riuniti Theatre Company of Naples took centre stage at the 19th edition of the Italian Language Week in Korea promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute in Seoul with the support of the Italian Embassy. Ianniello’s performance at the Ilshin Hall in Seoul on 24 October consisted […]

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Day to Fight Counterfeiting: the Foreign Ministry’s commitment to youth

The aim of the “National Student Day to Fight Counterfeiting” is to raise the awareness of youths on the problem of counterfeiting and the international commerce of “Italian sounding” products, as well as to promote the culture of legality in the new generations. The Day was launched on 29 October by the National Council for the […]

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Italian Economic Diplomacy, 28 October: latest news from the world

Sparkle joins the European Open Cloud for Research Environments Project​ Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and the eighth leading global operator, has been selected for the wave 1 of the Open Clouds for Research Environments (OCRE) Voucher Program to provide European researchers with access to AWS’s services. The OCRE project, launched in […]

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The Farnesina protects the more vulnerable social groups: funds for € 3 million to Chad and Tunisia

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has earmarked 2 million euros from its Africa Fund in favor of the World Food Program (WFP) in Chad, to support the economic self-sufficiency of about 30,000 Sudanese refugees, creating local job opportunities in the agricultural sector that constitute alternatives to migration. A further contribution of € 1 million from the […]

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The Year of Leonardo da Vinci: Medieval music in Bratislava

The music of the Middle Ages is the protagonist of a concert organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Bratislava for the year dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci, on the 500th anniversary of his death. The “Arco Antiqua Ensemble” will accompany viewers tomorrow in the Church of the Capuchins on a musical journey through the whole […]

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Italy – Spain book forum, focus on the ‘Craft of Writing’

The fourth Italy-Spain book forum will be held tomorrow in Madrid to promote the development of publishing projects and cooperation between the Italian and the Spanish publishing industries.  The Italian Cultural Institute organised the event in association with the Italian Trade Agency (ICE), Monteverdelegge and the Associazione Forum del Libro as part of a cycle of […]

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Leonardo da Vinci is the guest star in Algiers

The “Leonardo Opera Omnia” exhibition by RAI COM made its first stop in the North Africa-Middle East area in Algiers, in the prestigious venue of the “Palais de la Culture Moufdi Zakaria”, the seat of the Ministry of Culture. Hundreds of visitors had the opportunity to admire 17 high-definition life-size reproductions of the masterpieces of […]

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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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