Riga Fashion Week 2019 – Spring Edition

The Italian Embassy sponsored the Spring edition of the 30th “RIGA FASHION WEEK” (www.rfw.lv) organised by the “Baltic Fashion Federation” (www.bff.lv), and held from 26 to 30 March 2019. The Italian brand “Morfosis” was among the designers that participated with their collections. The Baltic Fashion Federation grasped the opportunity to confer an award on Italian Ambassador […]

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Hannover Messe: Italy third-largest exhibiting Country

Italian Ambassador Luigi Mattiolo participated in the opening of the Hannover Messe, the leading world fair on industrial automation, robotics and technologies for energy systems and for the environment, with almost 6,500 exhibitors, 220,000 visitors and more than 1,400 events. Italy, which has always participated in the Fair ever since it was opened in 1947, […]

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Minister Moavero in Dinard to attend the G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, is attending the G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting held today and tomorrow in Dinard, in Bretagne. High on the G7 agenda are: defending democracies against external interference; cybersecurity; maritime security; peace-keeping operations in Africa and the participation of women in peace processes; combating illicit trafficking […]

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Joint Statement on Fighting Near Gharyan, Libya

The governments of France, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States are deeply concerned by fighting near Gharyan, Libya and urge all parties to immediately de-escalate tensions, which are hindering prospects for UN political mediation. At this sensitive moment in Libya’s transition, military posturing and threats of unilateral action only […]

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Developments in Libya: Minister Moavero is in contact with the Embassy in Tripoli

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi – in Washington to attend the meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers – is carefully watching the developments in Libya in close contact with the Italian Embassy in Tripoli. The Foreign Minister joins the United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, in recalling that the road […]

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Venezuelan MP Mariela Magallanes

Yesterday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, after learning that on 2 April the Venezuelan MP Mariela Magallanes, who is also an Italian citizen, had her passport confiscated and was stopped from departing at Caracas airport after being held in police custody, expresses great concern and the firm condemnation for […]

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Elias Nardi Quartet performs in Bratislava

​The Elias Nardi Quartet performed at the Kapucìnsky Kostol in Bratislava. Organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in the Slovak capital, the concert featured the rich Mediterranean music world where elements of ethnic, jazz and classical music combine. The Elias Nardi Quartet is the meeting of four talents and their instruments:The oud (an Arab lute, […]

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Italy’s Economic Diplomacy, 3 April: latest news from the world

China publishes the Logistic Hub Distribution and Construction Plan China’s National Development and Reform Commission published the Logistic Hub Distribution and Construction Plan through which the Government aims to improve the efficiency of the national logistic network, concentrating traffic onto major arterial roads and promoting the sorting and final delivery of goods through a capillary […]

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Paris: exhibition on Carlo Levi, painter and writer

The Italian Cultural Institute in Paris hosts an interesting exhibition on Carlo Levi and his work as painter and writer between the French capital and Matera. The artist was not only the author of the famous book Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (“Christ Stopped at Eboli”), or an anti-Fascist intellectual whom Sartre and Beauvoir would always […]

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Belgrade: Italian companies meet with the Finance Minister

Italian companies operating in Serbia participated in a meeting with the Minister of Finance, Siniša Mali, with the attendance of Italian Ambassador Carlo Lo Cascio. The meeting was organised by the Italian-Serbian Chamber of Commerce with the aim of tackling the principal financial and tax issues of greatest interest for the companies operating in the […]

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Argentina: photographic exhibition on Bartali, Righteous among Nations

The Italian Consulate General in Argentina, together with the B’nai B’rith Jewish association, organised a photographic exhibition on Gino Bartali entitled ”Righteous among Nations, cycling champions and Humankind” at Bahia Blanca. The exhibition is hosted in the historic building of the ‘Bolsa de Comercio di Bahia Blanca’, and is part of the initiatives launched by […]

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Italy’s Economic ​Diplomacy, 2 April: latest news from the world

Expo 2020 Dubai – Call for Proposals open to all suppliers of the best construction, plant engineering and technological components and to become Technical Partners of Italy Pavilion. Invitalia, on behalf of the General Commissioner for Italy’s participation to Expo 2020 Dubai, has published a Request for Proposal (RFP) aimed at selecting Technical Partners among […]

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