Bonino in Strasbourg – New start for Italy on human rights
A “new start”, “without giving in or compromising”: Italy intends to “invert the trend” after the Court of Human Rights’ ruling on its slowness of justice, lack of respect for the right to a defence and prison conditions. This was Minister for Foreign Affairs’ Emma Bonino’s pledge before the Committee of Ministers of the Council […]
Read moreGreen Foreign Ministry
Nearly 20,000 kilos of carbon dioxide, over 250 trees and 23,000KWh in power – these are the results of the energy-saving efforts put in place by the foreign ministry’s Directorate General for Administration, IT and Communications. For more than a year now, the foreign ministry has been applying a “green” energy policy aimed at encouraging […]
Read moreBonino in Strasbourg for Council of Europe Ministers Committee Meeting
Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino is in Strasbourg today for a meeting of the Council of Europe Ministers Committee, a meeting dedicated to the reforms the organization must undertake in order to strengthen its efforts in defence of democracy, human rights and the rule of law in its 47 Member countries. After her address, […]
Read moreTOKYO – Meeting on Italo-Japanese space cooperation
The Italian Cultural Institute of Tokyo yesterday hosted the seminar “Italy and Japan: Space Cooperation Frontiers”, centred on the cooperative partnership that has been developing over recent years in the sectors of the use of the International Space Station (ISS), earth observation for monitoring natural disasters and space science. Considering that the two countries are […]
Read moreANGOLA – italian centre fights bovine disease
Italy goes to work in Angola to fight infectious bovine diseases: The ‘G.Caporale’ Istituto zooprofilattico of Teramo is starting up an ambitious programme for the treatment of sick cattle and improvement of slaughtering conditions. The main goal is to weaken the bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) that seems to be infecting the Angolan provinces of Huila, Cunene […]
Read moreJapan – Over 300,000 visitors for Raphael
Italian exhibitions have been attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors: the Raphael exhibition at Tokyo’s National Museum of Western Art, which remains open through 2 June has already drawn 300,000 visitors. Large crowds also for the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum’s showing of Leonardo masterpieces from Milan’s Ambrosiana Library, which has welcomed 55,000 visitors since its […]
Read moreBonino in Parliament – Foreign Ministry to contribute to Italy’s rebound
Promotion of the country’s productive system, strengthening of the European Union, the Middle East peace process, the Syrian crisis, Libya and the solution to the case of the marines held in India were some of the foreign ministry’s main planning concerns outlined by Minister Emma Bonino in her report before the Upper and Lower Houses […]
Read moreBonino in Parliament, planning report – Foreign Ministry to contribute to country’s rebound
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs intends “to contribute to the economic recovery and consolidation” of the country, which is the government’s top “priority”, and to do so, first and foremost, through the “internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises”, a mission that will be shared with the Ministries of Economic Development and of Foreign Trade, announced […]
Read moreSLOVACCHIA – In arrivo festival italiano ‘Dolce Vitaj’ (in translation)
Mancano poche settimane al via per il Festival italiano in Slovacchia ‘Dolce vitaj’, organizzato dall’Istituto italiano di cultura di Bratislava in collaborazione con l’Ambasciata italiana e la Camera di commercio italo-slovacca. Un nome, un programma per una rassegna che richiama la nota espressione italiana, evocando allo stesso tempo la parola ‘benvenuto’ (vitaj) in slovacco.Quest’anno sara’ […]
Read moreSERBIA – All’ambasciatore Varricchio premio “Europeo dell’anno 2012” (in translation)
E’ andato anche al nostro ambasciatore a Belgrado, Armando Varricchio, il premio “Europeo dell’anno 2012”, assegnato ogni anno a sei personalita’ del mondo della politica, dell’economia, della diplomazia, della cultura, dell’imprenditoria e della scienza. Il vicepremier Aleksandar Vucic, nel corso della cerimonia, ha ringraziato l’Italia per il continuo sostegno al percorso di integrazione europea della […]
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