Italian Economic Diplomacy – 31 January: latest news from around the world. Service provided in collaboration with Il Sole 24 ORE Radiocor
An letter of intent was signed in Rome today by Turkey’s Yeni Basak Energy (a subsidiary of the US Sun Group) and Italy’s Turboden (Organic Rankine Cycle Turbo-generators), controlled by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The agreement was signed in the margins of the Matching Italy-Turkey economic forum organised by Network Globale to coincide with the State […]
Read moreSyria: UN Contact Group at Farnesina – Bonino: Humanitarian catastrophe, aid access and civilian security
Syria is experiencing the “worst humanitarian crisis of our times” and it is the “shame of the international community” that aid is being kept out of the region. Minister Bonino’s harsh words were spoken from Rome, where the UN held a meeting of 19 countries to make a univocal appeal for access to food, water […]
Read moreArctic frontiers 2014
Dedicata al tema “Humans in the Arctic”, l’ottava edizione di Arctic Frontiers, svoltasi a Tromsoe , ha visto un significativo contributo dell’Italia.All’evento, l’Ambasciatore italiano presso la Norvegia e l’Islanda, Giorgio Novello, keynote speaker, ha ricordato i profondi legami dell’Italia con l’Artico, recentemente sfociati nell’entrata nel Consiglio Artico come Osservatore Permanente. La presenza italiana Novello ha, […]
Read moreArctic frontiers 2014
Dedicated to “Humans in the Arctic”, the 8th edition of Arctic Frontiers has taken place in Tromsø, with a significant contribution from Italy. Keynote speaker Giorgio Novello, the Italian Ambassador to Norway and Iceland, pointed out Italy’s strong links with the Arctic, which recently led to our obtaining Permanent Observer status in the Arctic Council. […]
Read moreNiger – Future customs police officers trained in Italy
The training course organised at the Finance Police’s Training and Specialisation Centre (CAS) in Orvieto for customs police officers from the Republic of Niger has come to a close. The course ran from 13 to 30 January. Organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it was designed to strengthen the institutions in countries […]
Read moreTheatre: The drama of migration – preview performance at the Italian Embassy in Paris
The 18th century “Sicilian Theatre” in the Italian Embassy in Paris was the splendid setting for the preview of the play by Sicilian writer Lina Prosa, “Lampedusa Beach”, on the dramatic situation of migrants in the Mediterranean region. The event will be broadcast by Canal + France in its “Le Supplement” programme. Read more, in […]
Read moreAbu Dhabi: GSE presents “E-Qbo” at Sustainability Week
Italy was present at Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2014 with a pavilion at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES). The “E-Qbo” project was a notable success. The fruit of a collaboration by RSE (the research company linked to energy services operator GSE) and T-Red, a start-up company, the E-Qbo is a an off-grid cube clad […]
Read more“Matching Italy–Turkey” – Ankara enriches the European project, says Bonino
The EU-Turkey negotiations have been blocked for too long by “a stalemate that’s been of no use to anyone, either the EU itself or Turkey”. This was Foreign Minister Emma Bonino’s comment at the “Matching Italy–Turkey” conference organised by Network Globale in collaboration with the Ministries for Foreign Affairs and Economic Development and the two […]
Read moreRemembrance Day: Roberto Faenza’s film “Anita B.”, inspired by Edith Bruck’s book, is screened in Jerusalem
Roberto Faenza’s film “Anita B.” was screened at the Jerusalem Film Archive yesterday, 26 January, to mark Remembrance Day. This was the first screening outside Italy of the film, based on Edith Bruck’s autobiographical book “Quanta stella c’è nel cielo”. Organised by the Italian Cultural Institute and its Director, Simonetta De Felicis, the screening was […]
Read moreAngola – Writer’s Union to publish book by Ambassador Mistretta, its first foreign author
The Angolan Writer’s Union is to publish “Nel paese chiamato alberi”, by the Italian Ambassador to Angola, Giuseppe Mistretta. This will be the first book by a foreign writer published by the Union. Ambassador Mistretta, who is also the author of “Un ponte lungo quattro secoli”, on Italian-Angolan relations, plans to have both books translated […]
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