Dei/Sole 24 Ore -Poland: first high-speed “Pendolino” takes to the rails
The Alstom “Pendolino”, Poland’s first high-speed train, has begun commercial operations. The Pendolino trains will operate along the existing PKP Intercity lines connecting the key cities of Warsaw, Danzig, Gdynia, Krakow, Katowice and Wroclaw, and were built in the Italian city of Savigliano (CN) with the collaboration on traction systems of Sesto San Giovanni (MI). […]
Read moreCrisis Unit – European Crisis Unit heads at the Farnesina
The Farnesina Crisis Unit is hosting a meeting today of the heads of the analogous facilities of the 28 EU Member States and officials of the EU External Action Service and the EU Commission. The aim is to facilitate the exchange of information among Member States in an effort to avert or reduce threats to […]
Read moreDiplomazia e Dintorni – Italian language promotion for Italians living abroad
Preserving a knowledge of one’s mother tongue is essential to all those Italians who decide, either as a result of need or choice, to move abroad to live. Italy has been, and is still today, a country of emigration. The Directorate General for Italians Citizens Abroad and Migration Policies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs […]
Read moreTirana – Italian architecture in Albania – 1925 to the present
A series of events (“Sulle tracce dell’Italia in Albania”) were organised by our embassy and Italian Cultural Institute in Tirana within the framework of the Italian Presidency of the Council of the EU. The programme aimed at enhancing the contributions to that Balkan country from 1925 to 1943 by Italian architects such as Armando Brasini, […]
Read moreUnited Kingdom – La Scala chamber concert concludes Italian Presidency
The Italian embassy in London celebrates the conclusion of the Italian Presidency of the Council of the EU. A concert this evening by the chamber musicians of Milan’s La Scala will see the presence at the Grosvenor Square residence of Ambassador Pasquale Terracciano of UK Under-Secretary for Europe David Lidington, along with members of parliament, […]
Read moreOnu – Contrasto al terrorismo internazionale – Incontro a Roma, 11-12 dicembre 2014 (in translation)
Un seminario internazionale di esperti dal titolo “Reintegrating Returning Foreign Terrorist Fighters, Challenges and Lessons Learned” si è svolto alla Farnesina l’11 e 12 dicembre. L’incontro è stato organizzato dal ‘United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute’ (UNICRI) in collaborazione con il ‘Global Counter Terrorism Forum’ (GCTF). I lavori sono stati aperti dall’Ambasciatore Michele […]
Read moreDei/Sole 24 Ore – Australia: Rizzani De Eccher wins contract worth 201 million euro
In a joint venture with the most important Australian infrastructure company, Leighton Holdings, Rizzani de Eccher has won a contract worth 300 million AUD (201 million euro) for the first stage of the WestConnex project. This consists of widening the stretch of M4 motorway linking Homebush with Parramatta, one of the busiest and most congested […]
Read moreArgentina – Ambassador Castaldo visits Lomas de Zamora
A mission to Lomas de Zamora for the Italian Ambassador in Argentina, Teresa Castaldo, to meet the consular agent, Francesca Cardurani Meloni, and the Agency staff. The mission is part of a programme of visits by the Ambassador to Italian consular offices throughout Argentina to maximise their efficiency and effectiveness in providing services to Italian […]
Read moreItaly-Latin America Forum – Internationalisation a winning card for business, says Gentiloni
“Internationalisation helps trigger a virtuous mechanism that increases firms’ capacity to diversify and determines the end uses to which production factors are put”. These were the words of Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni during the closing session of the Italy-Latin America Forum on SMEs taking place in Rome. “Experience tells us that, conditions being equal, companies […]
Read moreWashington – The concept of womanhood represented by the Virgin Mary
“Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea” is the title of an exhibition recently opened at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington with a mass celebrated by Cardinal Wuerl. The exhibition, organised as part of the American celebrations for the Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, will run until 12 […]
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