Minister Moavero Milanesi on a diplomatic mission to Athens (8-9 August)​

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, is on a diplomatic mission to Athens today. His agenda is dense with meetings, especially with the President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopīos Pavlopoulos, and with the Greek Foreign Minister, Nikos Dendias. The Italian Foreign Minister’s last visit to Greece was almost three years ago […]

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Message from Minister Moavero on the National Day of the Sacrifice of Italian Workers in the World

Today marks the 63rd anniversary of the tragedy of the Bois du Cazier mine in Marcinelle, Belgium, in which 262 miners died on 8 August 1956. The disaster is etched onto the collective memory of us Italians because the fellow citizens who lost their lives were 163, more than half of the total. A terrible […]

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Crisis Unit, Enac and Assaeroporti join forces again for the “Travel Safely Abroad” summer campaign

Rome, 7 August 2019 – The information campaign entitled “Travel Safely Abroad” is co-promoted by the Foreign Ministry’s Crisis Unit, the National Civil Aviation Authority (ENAC) and the association of Italian airport operators, Assaeroporti, to remind Italians planning to spend their holidays abroad of the importance of consulting “Viaggiaresicuri.it” and of registering on “Dovesiamonelmondo.it” website: […]

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Italy’s Economic Diplomacy, 6 August: latest news from the world

Indonesia: the Government’s priority is to expand airport infrastructure The Government of Indonesia aims to expand its airport infrastructure with the aim of assuring the population growing access to airline services and, more in general, enhance their connectivity. In fact, Indonesia is considered done of the world’s most attractive emerging markets in terms of air […]

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Declaration by the High Representative Federica Mogherini on behalf of the EU on the support to the UN facilitated political process in Libya

The European Union and its Member States are united in demanding that all Libyan parties commit to a permanent ceasefire and return to a UN facilitated political process. The European Union and its Member States welcome the proposal by Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ghassan Salame for a truce on the […]

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Brasilia: the third edition of ‘Embassy Open Doors’ has concluded

The third edition of the “Embassy Open Doors” initiative promoted by the Italian Embassy in Brasilia has concluded. The event offered the public the opportunity to admire the architectural and artistic beauty of the building that hosts the Italian diplomatic mission which was designed by the famous Italian civil engineer, Pier Luigi Nervi. The building, […]

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Beirut: Verdi’s Messa da Requiem in the Temple of Bacchus​

The Temple of Bacchus in the Baalbek Roman temple complex near Beirut formed the backdrop to the concert of the ‘Messa da Requiem’ by Giuseppe Verdi organised by the Italian Embassy and Cultural Institute as part of the Lebanese summer music festival. The concert was performed by the Bucharest Radio Orchestra conducted by maestro Toufic Maatouk and featured soloists Maria […]

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Rhodes: on show the watercolours by Italian archaeologist Hermes Balducci

A collection of 55 watercolours on cardboard by archaeologist Hermes Balducci are on show at the Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes organised by the Italian School of Archaeology at Athens (SAIA). The exhibition, co-organised by the Superintendence of Fine Artes of the Dodecanese, is part of the summer playbill of […]

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Deputy Foreign Minister Del Re on diplomatic mission to Djibouti

On 30 and 31 July, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, went on a joint diplomatic mission to Djibouti with the Minister of Defence, Elisabetta Trenta, to attend several significant initiatives promoted at the Italian Military Support Base (BMIS) “Amedeo Guillet”, concomitantly to the call in the port of […]

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The Italian Cooperation service, in cooperation with the Italian Red Cross, dispatches a humanitarian flight to Venezuela

Following the instructions of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, last night a humanitarian flight of the Italian Cooperation service took off from the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Brindisi, heading for Caracas with a load of 45 tons of humanitarian goods, medicines and medical and sanitary […]

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Minister Moavero takes part in the Question Time

Minister Moavero takes part in the Question Time at the Chamber of Deputies. Follow the session live  

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Parliamentary hearing by Minister Moavero

Hearing by Minister Moavero before the Joint Chamber and Senate Foreign Affairs Committee on the Italian rotating Presidency of the Central European Initiative (CEI). 

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