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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Holocaust Memorial Day. Commemoration by the Representative of Italy to NATO

The Representative of Italy to the North Atlantic Council, in partnership with the #WeRemember campaign promoted by the World Jewish Congress, commemorated the victims of the Shoah in Brussels. Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller and a large representation of Ambassadors of the Alliance, including Israeli Ambassador Aharon Leshno Yaar, met at NATO headquarters for the […]

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Italian military contingent in Afghanistan

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms that it was never informed of the intentions of the Minister of Defence, Elisabetta Trenta, before she released a statement to the press on the decision to withdraw the Italian military contingent from Afghanistan.  

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Italian Economic Diplomacy 28 January: latest global news

Sparkle expands in South America with a new Point of Presence in Colombia Sparkle, the International Services arm of the TIM Group and among the top ten global operators, announces the expansion of its South American backbone with a new Point of Presence (PoP) in Cartagena, Colombia. The new PoP responds to the fast-growing demand […]

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The EU and differentiated integration in a conference hosted at the Farnesina

‘Shaping the EU’s Future through Differentiated Integration” is the title of the conference, organised in partnership with the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), hosted by the Farnesina on Tuesday, 29 January. It constitutes one of the steps envisaged by the IAI-coordinated EU IDEA Project (EU Integration and Differentiation for Effectiveness and Accountability), which aims to prompt a […]

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Remembrance Day, Cultural Institute events in the world

Primo Levi, the Italian writer who bore witness to the Holocaust to a greater extent than anyone else, has been taking centre stage in a packed programme of events organised by Italian Embassies and Cultural Institutes throughout the world to commemorate Remembrance Day in 2019.  The centenary of Levi’s birth has provided the opportunity to […]

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Remembrance Day commemorated in Beijing

The story of over 18,000 Jews being saved from Nazi persecution by taking refuge in Shanghai led the programme of events to mark Remembrance Day 2019 for the conference ‘China and the Shoah’, which was organised by the Beijing Cultural Institute. Presentations were made by Elisa Maria Giunipero of the Italian Association of Chinese Studies (AISC) and […]

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Venezuela

Referring to the events that are unfolding in Venezuela, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, confirms the following: “We fully endorse the joint declaration that the European Union Member States released today on the situation in Venezuela, which we have contributed to drafting. With our heartfelt sympathy for the Venezuelan […]

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Minister Moavero’s Mission to Israel and Palestine

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi is on a mission to Israel and Palestine from 26 to 30 January with a tight agenda of political and institutional meetings. The mission to Israel will formally start in Jerusalem, with a tribute to the victims of the Holocaust, in the framework of the […]

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