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    Events
    14 October 2019
    Del Re at the OECD: Development cooperation is a priority for Italy

    The Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation participated, in Paris, in the Peer Review of Italian Cooperation activities by the OECD DAC (Development Assistance Committee). The Peer Review provides an overall appraisal of the Italian development cooperation system five years after the last Review in 2014.   The Deputy Minister recalled that in […]

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    Diplomatic Network
    14 October 2019
    The Day of Contemporary Art in Madrid: Marina Ballo Charmet’s gaze

    “The background noise of our mind”, a “peripheral vision” that focuses on empty space, on anonymous, inexpressive elements, caught “out of the corner of the eye”: this is Marina Ballo Charmet’s area of research. Her photos and videos focus on forms and objects of our everyday life, captured in their unexpected solitude. The exhibition ‘Fuori campo‘, organized […]

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    In detail
    14 October 2019
    Italy’s Economic ​Diplomacy, 14 October: latest news from the world

    SALINI-IMPREGILO S.P.A, IN JOINT VENTURE WITH PIZZAROTTI AND C. S.P.A., WINS A CONTRACT TO DOUBLE THE NYKIRKE-BARKAKER RAILWAY LINE. Bane-Nor, the Norwegian Railway Company, notified the Italian Company Salini-Impregilo S.p.A., in joint-venture with Pizzarotti and C. S.p.A. (the lead partner with a 51% stake), of the adjudication of a 388-million-euro contract to double the railway […]

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    Diplomatic Network
    14 October 2019
    Brisbane:​ FISDIR Paralympic athletes at the INAS GLOBAL GAMES

    The young athletes of the FISDIR (Italian Federation for athletes with intellectual disability) crowned their first day of competitions at the INAS GLOBAL GAMES in Brisbane with two medals. Their expedition was also greeted from space by astronaut Luca Parmitano, who sent a message defining himself as a “supporter” of FISDIR and Paralympic athletes as […]

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    Events
    11 October 2019
    Tehran celebrates Italy’s Contemporary Art Day

    ​The National Museum of Iran is the prestigious setting that the Italian Embassy in Tehran has chosen to showcase two most important works of art by Bijan Bassiri, an Italian-Iranian artist: a sculpture entitled “Meteorite” and “Nottambulo”, a diptyc. The exhibit, curated by Bruno Corà, an art historian and critic and President of the Burri […]

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    In detail
    11 October 2019
    Italy’s Economic Diplomacy, 11 October: latest news from the world

    THE NETHERLANDS. CESI ACQUIRES DUTCH COMPANY KEMA LAB. THE ITALIAN COMPANY  BECOMES THE WORLD LEADER FOR INDEPENDENT TESTING FOR THE ENERGY INDUSTRY A major transaction was recently formalized involving the acquisition of a Dutch company by an Italian company: CESI, an Italian company with Enel and Terna holding about 80% of the shares (the remaining […]

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    Events
    11 October 2019
    Del Re meets a delegation from Iraqi Kurdistan

    This morning at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re met a delegation from the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government led by the Minister of Endowment & Religious Affairs, Pshtiwan Sadq Abdullah. The Deputy Minister said “Italy is following the positive developments of the […]

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    Interviews
    11 October 2019
    Di Maio: “The entire European Union should condemn Turkey and refuse its blackmail” (la Repubblica)

    ROME – Minister Luigi Di Maio, the United States have abandoned the Kurds, Turkey has started a war that foreshadows ethnic cleansing. You summoned the Turkish Ambassador for a meeting. What position is Italy taking? “We strongly condemn all forms of military action since it risks jeopardising the efforts made by the anti-Daesh coalition. The Syrian […]

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    Diplomatic Network
    11 October 2019
    Addis Ababa hosts Maison Gattinoni for fashion week

    The Italian Embassy in Addis Ababa and the Maison Gattinoni Couture organised a tableau vivant of the Spring/Summer 2020 collection and a historical fashion exhibition dedicated to the “Hollywood divas on the Tiber” to celebrate the fashion week in Ethiopia. This event, which is fast becoming the main fashion event in Ethiopia and East Africa […]

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    Press Releases
    10 October 2019
    Syria: Turkish Ambassador in Italy summoned

    On the recommendation of Minister Luigi Di Maio, Deputy Foreign Minister Marina Sereni met the Turkish Ambassador to Italy today at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to inform him of Italy’s firm condemnation of Turkey’s unilateral military action in northeastern Syria. Unilateral military action threatens the results achieved by the anti-Daesh coalition […]

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