MED 2020: Vice Minister Sereni, valorise the youth in the Mediterranean area
“The pandemic is seriously affecting young people worldwide, but in the Mediterranean and Middle East region, with 60% of the population under the age of 30 and with a youth unemployment rate of about 27% even before the crisis, the impact has been really strong”. This was stated by the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, […]
Read moreContemporary Art Day – Foreign Affairs Ministry Initiatives
On 5 December 2020 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) will be involved in the 16th edition of Contemporary Art Day, an event promoted by AMACI (Association of Italian Museums of Contemporary Art) that includes museums, foundations, and public and private institutions, in recounting the vitality of contemporary art in our Country. […]
Read moreDi Stefano chairs the “Energy, Environment, Climate” steering committee
Today, a meeting of the interdepartmental “Energy, Environment and Climate” steering committee was held, by tele conference, chaired by Deputy Minister Manlio Di Stefano, attended by representatives of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, Ministry for Economic Development, Ministry of the Environment, Ministry of Defence, Italian Permanent Representation to the European Union and the G20 […]
Read moreThe Divine Comedy, a path in thirty-three languages
An audiobook, produced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on the occasion of Dante’s centenary celebrations, presents select passages from the poem in thirty-three different languages. Seven hundred years after Dante’s death, the audiobook Dalla selva oscura al Paradiso (From the Dark Forest to Paradise) leads listeners on a guided tour through […]
Read moreDel Re: mitigate the effects of the pandemic on the food chain
The Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, opened the “Health-Nutrition-Agriculture Nexus” Forum, organised as part of the Rome Med (Mediterranean Dialogues) 2020 Conference. “The Covid-19 pandemic put the food chain under unprecedented pressure, which is rather worrying if one considers that the food sector is one of the most important […]
Read moreOCSE-MENA; Sereni, in an unstable Mediterranean, Italy upholds dialogue
“COVID-19 is affecting the whole world but in the Mediterranean region we are facing a particularly unstable situation”. These words were spoken by the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marina Sereni, at the Strategic Consultations of the MENA-OECD Initiative on Governance and Competitiveness for Development. The Initiative aims at creating common governance training programmes between […]
Read moreSereni at the Convention to mark 50 years of Italy-China relations
“Collaboration between Rome and Beijing is intense in all sectors”. This is what the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marina Sereni, said, speaking at the Convention entitled “Fifty Years of Relations between Italy and China (1970-2020)”, promoted by the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, attended by the Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to […]
Read moreDel Re. Italy and South Africa join forces for the post-Covid recovery
Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, spoke by video conference at the opening of the seventh edition of Southern Africa Europe CEO Dialogue, organised by The European House-Ambrosetti. “South Africa and Italy have consistently been united by profound relations. A deep and sincere friendship between two Nations, which are distant […]
Read moreSereni and Di Stefano hold talks to support the culture sector
Today, Vice Minister Marina Sereni and Deputy Minister Manlio di Stefano held talks, by video conference, with organisations representing the culture sector, namely, AIE (Association of Italian Publishers), ANICA (Association of Film, Audiovisual and Multimedia Industries), APA (Association of Audiovisual Producers), ASSORESTAURO. The event is part of a new round of sectoral meetings, starting on 2 November, dedicated to national production categories, called by Deputy Minister Di Stefano, who is in charge of business internationalisation matters. The new round of talks follows the previous round held in April and […]
Read moreDel Re: 2030 agenda and Paris agreement pillars for recovery
Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, spoke at “Codeway – Cooperation and Development Expo”, a virtual event created and organised by Fiera Roma on the issue of development cooperation at the time of the pandemic. “The pandemic continues to profoundly impact not just health but the economy and well-being of billions of people around the world. For the first time in twenty years the crisis triggered by the […]
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