The issue of electronic ID cards kicks off in three consular offices

The experimental phase for the issue of electronic ID cards to Italian citizens residing abroad officially kicked off today at the Consular Chanceries of Athens, Nice and Vienna. The document, which is based on an innovative technology to avoid counterfeiting and frauds, will be sent to the applicant’s home after an appointment at the Consulate […]

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Italian-Sweden Health Summit at the Karolinska Institutet

More than twenty Italian and international speakers took turns to speak on the stage of the first Italian-Swedish Health Summit on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease that was held yesterday at the Nobel Forum of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. The Summit, which marks the strengthened partnership between Italy and Sweden in the medical research sector, […]

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Uganda: CONI and IOC join forces for the #Score Together Project

Support is growing for the #Score Together Project promoting sport as an instrument of inclusion launched in Uganda by the Italian Embassy in Kampala together with the Trento-based NGO, ACV, thanks to the cooperation with the Office of the Ugandan Prime Minister, the Ugandan Olympic Committee, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the Sampdoria […]

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​The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation at the Chamber of Deputies today

​Urgent briefing by Minister Luigi Di Maio to the Chamber of Deputies    

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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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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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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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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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The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, at the EU Foreign Affairs Council

Minister Di Maio leads the Italian delegation at the EU Foreign Affairs Council held in Luxembourg today. The meeting’s agenda will follow up on the discussions at the 74th United Nations General Assembly, as well as the situation in Iran, Libya and Iraq. Other points on the agenda will be the situation in Syria, Turkey, […]

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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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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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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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