Italy-Usa – Journey through narrative and film in Washington
Nobel laureate for literature Mario Vargas Llosa, 3-time Oscar-winner Vittorio Storaro and award-winning writer Alessandro Barrico sat on a panel together last Friday at one of the US’s most beautiful universities – Washington’s Georgetown – for a “Voyage through the Fantastic World of Narrative and Cinema” , as part of the “Italian Culture – The […]
Read moreDiplomazia Economica Italiana – 28 May: Latest World News, compiled in collaboration with Il Sole 24 ORE Radiocor
Dubai: 2014 Gulf furniture market valued at 2.73 billion USD The 2014 interior furnishings market of the United Arab Emirates at valued at 2.73 billion USD, according to the data that emerged at the International Design Exhibition (INDEX), where more than 700 vendors from 44 countries (up 15% over last year) displayed their wares. Italy […]
Read moreItaly-Romania, Mogherini in Bucharest – Talks centred on bilateral relations and international agenda concerns
The status of bilateral relations and major international agenda concerns, beginning with the Ukraine crisis and the consequences of Sunday’s European vote, will be the focus of the talks Minister Federica Mogherini has planned for today in Bucharest with Romanian leaders.
Read moreQuito – UN praises Italy for restoration of San Francisco convent
The UN praised Italy for its contribution to the restoration and enhancement of the San Francisco convent complex in Quito. Participants in a recent ceremony for the presentation of its management plan included, among others, Ecuadoran Minister for Culture Francisco Velasco, Director of the INPC (international institute for cultural patrimony) Maria Josè Armijos, UN country […]
Read moreJapan – The Uffizi in Tokyo from October
The Uffizi Gallery will be “on tour” in Japan from 11 October to 14 December. The Tokyo residence of Ambassador DomenicoGiorgi hosted a press conference for the presentation of the initiative, which will be mounted at the city’s metropolitan museum and include over 70 workds by Italian Renaissance and Mannerist masters Boticelli, Andrea del Sarto, […]
Read moreMinister Mogherini opens Africa Day at the Farnesina
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs held its annual Africa Day, this year in celebration of the 41st anniversary of the creation of the Organisation of African Unity, and the opening speech was delivered by Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini. “Italy wants to be part of the virtuous dynamism of the continent by making the […]
Read moreMogherini cites need to help dialogue in Libya and Ukraine
Despite the difficulties, Italy and the international community cannot but sustain dialogue between the parties, both in Ukraine and in Libya, as Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Moghernini stressed today during her quarterly briefing on the status of international missions before the joint parliamentary foreign affairs and defence committees. The briefing offered an opportunity to […]
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China: Haier push is on again for Indesit The race for control of Indesit was on again and the stock price rose on the Italian exchange. In recent weeks the American Whirlpool group seemed to be leading, with a possible mixed cash and stock offer. In the past few days though, according to leaks to […]
Read moreBarcelona – Italy’s Unescoheritage on display Catalonia
Italy’s 45 UNESCO Heritage sites will be on display in a photographic exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute in Barcelona from 3 to 30 June. The photos are by Bologna-born photographer Luca Capuano, and this is the first exhibition of Italian UNESCO sites by a single author, created in collaboration with the Ministries of Foreign […]
Read moreUkraine: Mogherini reports bodies of Rocchelli and Mironov recovered and moved to Kiev
“The bodies of Andrea Rochelli and Andrey Mironov have both now been recovered in Kharkov and will be transferred to Kiev where their families await them”, reported Minister Federica Mogherini, expressing her “deep pain” for the Italian photo-reporter and Mironov, who “was much more than a translator”.
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