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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Visit by Deputy Minister Del Re to the UN Headquarters

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, visited the UN Headquarters in New York from 28 to 30 January. The main topics discussed with her interlocutors included Italy’s commitment towards promoting peace and development in Africa, support for the implementation of Agenda 2030 with a focus on empowering young people and women, reform […]

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Bicycle Thieves film at the PuSh in Vancouver

A new take on Vittorio de Sica’s masterpiece ‘Bicycle Thieves’, with live musical and voice accompaniment, was performed for two evenings at PuSh, the international festival in Vancouver, now in its 15th year. The Italian Consulate General, in association with the Italian Cultural Centre, organised the screening. The neorealist film was shown without sound and with […]

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Japan, an international research team discovers a new form of matter

A new type of ‘strange matter’, which could provide new information on the origin of the mass of the universe following the Big Bang, was discovered by the scientists of an international team in Japan, partially financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The E15 experiment conducted at the Japan Proton Accelerator […]

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Minister Moavero Milanesi in Bucharest (31 January and 1 February)

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, is attending the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the EU Countries (so-called ‘Gymnich meeting’) in Bucharest, on 31 January and 1 February, organised by the Romanian Presidency of the EU Council.The meeting’s agenda places special attention to the situation in Venezuela and its developments […]

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