New York – Italy as viewed on the big screen. A conference at the Italian Cultural Institute
The Italian Cultural Institute in New York is organising a conference on the changes in Italy since World War II as viewed on the big screen. The conference will take place on 19 June 2012. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreANSA recounts Italy, in Brazil
ANSA, Italy’s leading news agency, is organising a major photography exhibition as part of the “Momento Italia-Brasile” season of events. The exhibition will tell the story of 60 years of Italy’s history and the lives of its people as viewed through by the photographic lens. It will include a special focus on the bonds linking […]
Read moreSyria – humanitarian emergency. Aid from Italy – Senate gives go-ahead for participation in UN Mission
Italy is stepping up its political, diplomatic and humanitarian commitment to help find a solution to the Syrian crisis. The Senate has approved the decree – with 260 votes in favour and one abstention – on our country’s participation in the UN Observers’ mission. The provision now passes to the Chamber. The financial cover, of […]
Read moreBratislava – Marco Bellocchio receives Elsa Morante cinema Bratislava prize
The Italian director Marco Bellocchio has received the Elsa Morante Cinema Bratislava Prize, which this year coincides with the 100th anniversary of the writer’s birth. Morante is one of Italy’s most important writers since the Second World War. The prize, now in its 4th edition, was awarded to an Italian and a Slovakian director and […]
Read moreTWIPLOMACY: Social networks bring foreign policy closer to citizens, says Terzi
“E-diplomacy” or “Twiplomacy” is a reality. And social networks are a unique opportunity for diplomacy to receive, create and disseminate news to citizens. Italian diplomacy is engaged in numerous web-based initiatives. A new MFA portal for “Italy in the World”. “On 9 February my tweet ‘The massacre of innocent civilians in Syria must end’ attracted […]
Read moreNasce “Farnesina per immagini”; su Flickr le foto che raccontano la politica estera italiana (in translation)
Nell’homepage del portale www.esteri.it da oggi una nuova iniziativa: il nuovo canale “flickr” del Ministero degli Affari Esteri; le foto che raccontano la politica estera italiana con immagini provenienti dalla Farnesina, dalle sedi diplomatico-consolari all’estero e dagli operatori – come i cooperanti nel mondo – che collaborano con il Ministero.
Read moreTWIPLOMACY: Italian diplomacy has 48 Facebook pages. Foreign Ministry’s new portal now active, reports Terzi
The Foreign Ministry’s revamped website www.esteri.it went online today. The announcement was made by Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi at the forum on “Diplomacy in the Age of Twitter” organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the City of Turin with the collaboration of La Stampa. The Forum took place at the International Labour Organization’s […]
Read moreSyria: humanitarian emergency, aid from Italy – The country is on the “precipice of a civil war”, says Terzi
Acting on the instructions of Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi, Italian Development Cooperation has sent medical kits for the Syrian people suffering the effects of the humanitarian emergency arising from the violence in their country. The kits left yesterday and today, 14 June 2012, from the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Brindisi. The medical […]
Read moreCooperation: Mozambique – new hospital in Caia
The town of Caia, in Mozambique, has a new hospital thanks to funding from Italian Development Cooperation and the Autonomous Province of Trento. The 107-bed hospital, which has a catchment area of around 350,000 people, was opened on 2 June 2012 in the presence of the Mozambican Head of State, Armando Guebuza. President Guebuza, who […]
Read moreTwiplomacy: convegno a Torino; Terzi, con i Social Network si avvicina la politica estera ai cittadini (in translation)
“Il 9 febbraio ho twittato ‘Stop ai massacri di civili innocenti in Siria’ e la risposta dei followers è stata straordinaria”. Lo ha detto il Ministro Giulio Esteri, al forum ‘La diplomazia al tempo di twitter” organizzato dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri e dalla Città di Torino con la collaborazione de La Stampa e che […]
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