Del Re chairs a meeting on Lebanon with Italian CSOs.
Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Emanuela C. Del Re chaired today a meeting on the Lebanon emergency in a video conference with representatives of Italian civil society organizations (CSOs). The meeting took stock of the response to the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon following the tragic explosion in the port of Beirut on […]
Read moreIIC Toronto: a webinar on Raphael and Paolo Veronese
The Italian Cultural Institute of Toronto, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institutes of Chicago, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, San Francisco and Washington D.C., presents On the Footsteps of the Genius: Raphael and Paolo Veronese, (Sulle orme del genio: Raffaello e Paolo Veronese) an online conference by Thomas Dalla Costa, Curatorial Fellow of the […]
Read moreScalfarotto: concern about situation in Belarus
“We express all our concern and associate ourselves with the appeals of the President of the European Parliament, Mr Sassoli, and High Representative Borrell on the situation in Belarus,” said Undersecretary Scalfarotto on the eve of the extraordinary Council of EU Foreign Ministers convened for tomorrow. “The Government’s repression must be stopped immediately and the […]
Read moreScalfarotto: satisfaction with USTR decision on duties
Undersecretary Scalfarotto expressed great satisfaction for the decision of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) not to add any additional duty to Italian products as part of the six-monthly review of the measures adopted in implementation of the WTO ruling on Airbus subsidies, providing for increases only for specific categories of goods from France and […]
Read moreIIC Cairo: M’ illumino / d’immenso Prize
The Italian Cultural Institute of Cairo, the Swiss Embassy in Egypt, the Luxor University, the Luxor Poetry House, the Traduxit Laboratory in order to promote the translation and diffusion of Italian and Swiss-Italian poetry in Arabic-speaking countries are announcing the first edition for Arabic-speaking countries of M’illumino / d’immenso, an international prize for the translation […]
Read moreBelo Horizonte, a tribute to Italian cinema in music
The Italian Consulate in Belo Horizonte organizes a passionate musical tribute to the great Italian Cinema and its masters: from the melodies of the Oscar-winning Ennio Morricone, who died a few weeks ago, to the famous notes of Nino Rota, another award-winning composer of Federico Fellini’s films, whose centenary we celebrate this year. Leading the […]
Read moreIIC Beijing: “Mid-August Concert
On the occasion of the festivities of Mid-August, on August 15 the Italian Cultural Institute of Beijing will organize the online concert ‘I colori della mia voce intorno al 41-simo parallelo” (The colours of my voice around the 41st parallel). The Neapolitan singer Simona De Rosa and the jazz guitarist Federico Luongo will participate in […]
Read moreThe Italian Ambassador in Beirut delivers Italian aid to Lebanon
Tomorrow at 9 a.m. an air force plane will take off from Pisa and land in Beirut. It will transport aid donated by Cooperazione 6 for the Lebanese population victims of the explosion that hit Beirut last Tuesday. These are first aid kits and hygienic-sanitary material that will be delivered to the Lebanese authorities by […]
Read moreIIC Montevideo, an event dedicated to Caravaggio
The Italian Cultural Institute in Montevideo organises a special event dedicated to Caravaggio, with a conference and the screening of a documentary dedicated to the great painter. On Thursday 13th at 7 pm Montevideo time (midnight on Friday in Italy), Emma Sanguinetti, art history specialist will give the lecture Caravaggio, luces y sombras de un […]
Read moreDel Re at UN videoconference on the humanitarian situation in Lebanon
Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re spoke at the video conference organised by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on the humanitarian situation in Lebanon. The meeting was chaired by Mark Lowcock, Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and introduced by Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Najat Rochdi, UN Deputy Special Coordinator, Resident […]
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