Italy’s Economic Diplomacy, 4 October: latest news from the world

European Investment Bank finances the ports of Rome and Lazio The European Investment Bank (EIB) is going to finance projects to expand the port of Civitavecchia and to create of a new commercial port in Fiumicino with 195 million euros. It is the EIB’s largest financing of a Port System Authority in the last few […]

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Press accreditation notice – Joint press conference of Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi and Norwegian Foreign Minister, Ine Eriksen Søreid

On Tuesday,9 October 9, 2018, at 1:00 pm, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi will meet the Norwegian Foreign Minister, Ine Eriksen Søreide at the Farnesina.  The meeting will be followed by a joint press point.   Journalists, photographers and TV crews interested in following the event are requested to […]

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The Foreign Ministry has arranged for a financing of 2.5 million euros to support the IOM in Niger and Egypt

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has arranged for a comprehensive financing of 2.5 million euros through the Africa Fund to support the activities of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Niger and Egypt. The 1.5-million-euro project titled “Direct Assistance to Abandoned Migrants” aims to boost the presence of the IOM in […]

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Deputy Foreign Minister Del Re meets with the Finnish Minister for Foreign Trade and International Development

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, met with the Finnish Minister for Foreign Trade and International Development, Anne-Mari Virolainen, at the Farnesina. At the meeting, they reaffirmed the excellent bilateral relations between the two Countries and discussed the external dimension of European migration policies and the EU’s priorities in […]

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Press accreditation notice – Presentation of the new edition of the CinemArena project (Farnesina, 9 October 2018)

On Tuesday, 9 October, at 11:00 a.m., the Farnesina, will host the presentation of the new edition of CinemArena, an itinerant cinema project jointly launched in 2002 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The aim of this new edition […]

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Minister Moavero meets with the Chairman of the Bundestag’s Committee on European Union Affairs

  The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, received at the Farnesina the Chairman of the Bundestag’s Committee on European Union Affairs, Gunther Krichbaum, with whom he had an in-depth exchange of opinions on several particularly sensitive European issues. In relation to migration, Minister Moavero reaffirmed that it is essential to put […]

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An Italian hamlet in the heart of China

An Italian hamlet in the heart of China: it is the HB Italian Town Changsha, the new theme park dedicated to the excellence of Italian products recently inaugurated in Changsha, the capital of the province of Hunan. The town is the reconstruction of an ideal Italian town by a group of Italian consultants, architects and […]

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Annual meeting of the National Committee for Humanitarian Action against Anti-personnel Mines​

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, chaired the annual meeting of the National Committee for Humanitarian Action against Anti-personnel Mines held at the Farnesina today, which was attended by major civil society organisations in the field of humanitarian demining. Italy is staunchly committed towards the universalisation of Conventions against […]

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Undersecretary Merlo on a diplomatic mission to Panama

The Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Senator Ricardo Merlo, currently on an official diplomatic mission to Panama, visited the Centro Logístico Regional de Asistencia Humanitaria today. He was accompanied by María Luísa Navarro, Vice Minister of Multilateral Affairs and Cooperation, and the Italian Ambassador to Panama, Marcello Apicella.  Undersecretary Merlo then […]

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National Day in Remembrance of the Victims of Immigration

In celebrating the “National Day in Remembrance of the Victims of Immigration”, which commemorates the 368 migrants who drowned in the shipwreck off the coasts of Lampedusa on 3 October 2013, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation recalls that only a joint action by the  international community can make it possible to prevent and […]

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The summer programme of ‘Tempo Forte Italia-Grecia’ winds up in Athens

The events on the recently concluded summer programme of ‘Tempo Forte Italia-Grecia 2018’, were all a great success. In particular, the National Institute of Ancient Drama returned on stage at the Athens and Epidaurus Festival to perform Sophocles’ ‘Oedipus at Colonus’, directed by Greece’s Yannis Kokkos and featuring Massimo De Francovich in the role of […]

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Undersecretary Di Stefano meets with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery

The Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Manlio Di Stefano, received at the Farnesina Ms Urmila Bhoola, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery. Undersecretary Di Stefano gave Ms Bhoola an update on the state of Italian legislation on the trafficking of human beings, unaccompanied foreign minors and on […]

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