London hosts Italian Theatre Festival

The Coronet Theatre in Notting Hill, London, plays host to the Italian Theatre Festival. Organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in London the Festival, which is at its second edition, is meant to celebrate some of Italy’s most distinguished playwrights and actors.  The 2019 edition opened on  Friday, 7 June with “Three Italian Short Stories” by Elsa Morante, Natalia Ginzburg […]

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First Italy-Armenia Business Forum

The first Italy-Armenia Business Forum that just closed in Yerevan turned out to be a great success, with the attendance of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and of the Minister of Economy Tigran Khachatryan. The event was promoted by the Italian National Association of Builders (ANCE) and the OICE engineering consulting and organised by the Italian […]

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Moavero Milanesi – A Trieste Declaration, ranging from security to environmental protection, capable of relaunching cooperation to meet new common challenges. (Il Piccolo)

The CEI will start off again from Trieste with a “Declaration” in which the Foreign Ministers of the Member States will commit to start cooperating in this growingly strategic area between West and East, capable of supporting new geopolitical conditions and challenges. The statement  was made by the Italian Foreign Minister, Enzo Moaveri Milanesi, who […]

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Annual meeting of the National Committee for Humanitarian Action against Anti-Personnel Mines

Today, at the Farnesina, the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, chaired the annual meeting of the National Committee for Humanitarian Action against Anti-Personnel Mines which was attended by major players of civil society operating in humanitarian demining activities. Italy’s resolute efforts to promote the universalisation of Conventions against Anti-personnel […]

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Italian scholarship winners take off with the Fulbright Program

It’s take-off time for 70 Italian and American Fulbright program grantees. On the morning of their departure for the United States, the Italy-United States Fulbright Commission organised an event at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, with the participation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. In the afternoon, the grant holders went to […]

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Information Note – Luiss Diplomatic Forum (Rome, LUISS Guido Carli University, 11 June 2019)

On Tuesday 11 June 2019, at 9.30 a.m. the LUISS Guido Carli University – Viale Pola, 12 Rome – will host the first Luiss Diplomatic Forum. The event aims to offer a debate between the network of foreign and Italian diplomats, institutions and Italian companies operating internationally.     At the first session, which gathers diplomats who graduated from the […]

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Yerevan: Armenian manuscripts conserved in Florence now on show

Three Armenian manuscripts from Florence dating back to the 13th and 14th centuries are now on display at the Matenadaran Museum in Yerevan thanks to the efforts of the Italian Embassy and the Italian Research Council (CNR). The exhibition is a perfect mix of science, art, history and technology and, thanks to spearheading techniques developed by the […]

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Telephone conversation between Minister Moavero and the Minister for European Affairs of Romania

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, today had a telephone conversation with the Romanian Minister for European Affairs, George Ciamba, who now, under Romania’s rotating presidency of EU Council, chairs the EU “General Affairs” Council of Ministers. The conversation touched upon the most topical European issues, and in particular the […]

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Trieste hosts the annual meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the CEI (11-12 June)

Next 11 and 12 June, Trieste will host the annual meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the 17 Member Countries of the Central European Initiative (CEI). The meeting will be chaired by Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi, who recalls that the CEI constitutes the “original and consolidated assembly of the central-eastern European and Balkan Countries. The […]

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Minister Moavero holds a telephone conversation with the British Foreign Minister

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, had a long telephone conversation with British Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt today. The call focused on a comprehensive update on the evolution of  Brexit-related issues, especially in light of the latest political  developments in the United Kingdom.

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Minister Moavero attends the celebrations of Israel’s Independence Day

  The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, this afternoon attended the festivities for Independence Day of the State of Israel, also to celebrate the 70th anniversary of bilateral relations between Italy and Israel.

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EU future: young diplomats from EU founding countries meet in The Hague

A delegation of young Italian diplomats participated a conference on the future of European diplomacy at The Hague. The event was attended by newly hired young officers from the six founding Countries of the European Union.  The Foreign Affairs Miister of the Netherlands, Stef Block, on welcoming the participants, highlighted the essential contribution that young generations of […]

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