Rio de Janeiro to host a seminar for Italian power companies

A seminar on Italy and the energy revolution in Brazil will take place in Rio de Janeiro on 13 February. The initiative, co-organised by the Italian Embassy together with Enel, Terna, ICE Industriali and the Chamber of Commerce of Rio, aims to analyse the innovation and investment opportunities for Italian businesses in Brazil. The seminar intends to […]

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International Contact Group on Venezuela

The International Contact Group on Venezuela The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, attended the meeting of the International Contact Group on Venezuela that was convened in Montevideo last 7 February.

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Undersecretary Di Stefano attends the EU-Arab League meeting

Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Manlio Di Stefano represented Italy at the EU-League of Arab States Ministerial Meeting. Today’s meeting was an opportunity to exchange views on the main regional issues, ahead of the first EU-LAS Summit which will be held in Sharm el-Sheikh on 24-25 February next. Ministers focused on […]

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Mostar commemorates the three Rai journalists killed 25 years ago

As is customary every year, the three journalists from Rai Trieste killed in Mostar 25 years ago were commemorated in Mostar. Marco Luchetta, Dario D’Angelo and Alessio Ota, were killed by a grenade on 28 January 1994, while they were recording a special coverage on the children who had died in the war. The ceremony […]

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Joint statement by the Foreign Ministers of the TIPH contributing Countries

1 February 2019 Joint statement by the Foreign Ministers of the TIPH contributing Countries We regret the unilateral decision by the Israeli government not to renew the mandate of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) after 31 January 2019. The current TIPH was established on 1 February 1997, in accordance with an agreement of […]

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Fast It, the portal active throughout the consular network

The ‘Fast It’ portal (Farnesina Online Services for Italians Abroad) is active on the Foreign Ministry’s entire consular network: 200 Offices serving 5.8 million Italians residing all over the world. In 2018, the portal was visited by 580,250 users and generated a traffic of more than 13 million hits. In the last 12 months, Fast […]

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The Farnesina Collection travels to India

The Farnesina Collection will travel to India to kick off the major contemporary art event in New Delhi: the India Art Fair 2019. Thanks to the initiative promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC), 13 works from the Collection will be exhibited first in the Indian capital, from 31 January to 3 February, and then […]

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Filming Italy-Los Angeles: Italy used as a film setting

Claudia Cardinale, an icon of style and beauty, was the guest star at the fourth edition of Filming Italy – Los Angeles, which was attended by personalities from Italy’s and Hollywood’s film industries, and that has just closed at the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Los Angeles and at the Harmony Gold Theater.  By promoting Italian film productions, Filming Italy – […]

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Trade between Italy and Serbia hits record levels

Trade between Italy and Serbia hit record levels with over 4 billion euros in 2018 For the first time in 2018, trade between Italy and Serbia exceeded the 4 billion euro mark, as the Serbian Statistical Institute disclosed yesterday. The consolidated data on foreign trade released by the Serbian Statistical institute showed that trade between Italy and Serbia amounted to 4.03 billion euros in […]

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Italy promotes two projects in Gambia in association with UNICEF

The Italian Ambassador in Dakar, Francesco Paolo Venier, and the Director of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) in Dakar, Alessandra Piermattei recently visited Gambia to launch together with the Gambian authorities, two development projects in association with UNICEF. The first project, which is directly financed by AICS, is concerned with promoting the Gambian side of a regional initiative, valued […]

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Stockholm: exhibition “The art of copying – watercolours of Etruscan tomb paintings from the turn of the 19th Century”

Acknowledgement must be given to Italian artist Alessandro Morani for the record that still exists of paintings that decorated Etruscan tombs between the 7th and the 13th century BC, since he copied those paintings in a series of watercolors.  The exhibition “The art of copying – watercolours of Etruscan tomb paintings from the turn of the […]

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New Visa Application Centre opens in the Province of Hubei

In order to promote Italian tourism in one of the most dynamic and populous regions of China, a new Italian Visa Application Centre was opened in Wuhan, the provincial capital of Hubei.   The head of the Italian Embassy Consular Office in Beijing, Eugenio Poti, attended the ceremony. He remarked on the progress that has […]

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