Farnesina and Touring Club – “Touring Card for Foreign Members” facilitates vacationing in Italy
Promoting quality tourism in Italy is the goal of the “Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Touring Club” initiative that today launched a new card for Italian members living abroad and other foreigners that should facilitate their vacationing in Italy. A network of conventions, discounts and initiatives MFA Secretary General Michele Valensise and Touring Club President Franco Iseppi […]
Read moreBULGARIA – Italian futurist ‘Aereopainting’
Bulgaria is getting ready to host “Aeropainting” an exhibition, which will open in Pavlikeni on Thursday, of the works of noted Italian Futurist painter Mino delle Site. The show runs through 16 August. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreBUENOS AIRES – ‘Verano italiano’ a great success
“Verano Italiano”, which featured cinema, music, opera, art and food/wine all Made in Italy, was held in Buenos Aires between June and July and enjoyed great public success thanks, in particular, to the participation of esteemed cultural personalities such as Franco Battiato, Eugenio Bennato, Uto Ughi and Milan’s La Scala Chamber Orchestra. Read more, in […]
Read moreAUSTRALIA – Symposium on the future of Italian language teaching
On 12 July, the Embassy of Italy in Canberra organised a national convention in Adelaide on the future of the Italian language within the Australian educational curriculum. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreItaly’s commitment to Europe – 2014 Presidency: political union and federalism
With one year to go until our EU Presidency in the second half of 2014, Italy has renewed its commitment to achieving political union in the framework of a “United States of Europe”. Because there is no alternative to a strong “EU project” if the Union wants to go on playing a leading role on […]
Read moreLJUBLJANA – Italian ‘frontier’ art on display
“East/Art/Contamination”, an exhibition featuring the work of a groups of artists from Trieste-based Centro Iniziative Culturali Z04 has opened in Ljubljana. The initiative, which runs until 11 October 2013, was organised in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in the Slovenian capital and aims to illustrate the richness and diversity of the artistic and cultural […]
Read moreDENMARK : Copenaghen’s new metro will speak italian
Copenhagen’s Metro will speak Italian as well as Danish. The first of the four tunnel-boring machines (TBMs), also known as “moles”, which the Italian “Copenhagen Metro Team” consortium will use for the city’s second metro, has been “christened” 40 metres underground. Read more, in Italian
Read moreFARNESINA – more visas issued – Italy attracting russian and chinese visitors
The number of foreign nationals visiting Italy for tourism or employment reasons is growing, with citizens of Russia, China and Turkey in the lead. The figures from the Statistical Yearbook 2013 show that 1,872,394 were issued in 2012 (up 9% on the previous year). Of these, 47% were issued in non-EU European countries, 29% in […]
Read moreFARNESINA – over 4.6 million italians living abroad
In 2012, the number of Italians living abroad and listed in the Consular network’s Register Office system was 4,662,213 million. 52% were concentrated in just four countries: Argentina (801,425), Germany (688,685), Switzerland (569,120) and Brazil (387,743). These were some of the key figures to emerge at the presentation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Statistical […]
Read moreEU: The United States of Europe is the road to take
The federalist solution “is not too popular in European organisations, indeed in some cases it’s opposed. But I believe that, in spite of that resistance, the United States of Europe are the only road to take”. The point was underscored by Foreign Minister Emma Bonino as she concluded her presentation at East Forum 2013 on […]
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