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6 May 2015
Montreal – Ettore Scola film retrospective

The Cinematheque Quebecoise of Montreal will host a retrospective of 13 films by the great Italian director Ettore Scola. The event, which starts tomorrow and runs through 31 May, has been organised in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute and Cinecittà’s Istituto Luce. Audiences will be able to view the films in the original Italian […]

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5 May 2015
New York: Art – a new “David” arrives in New York from Florence

“Hero” is a very personal interpretation of Michelangelo’s David by the architect and designer Antonio Pio Saracino, originally from Puglia but based for over a decade in New York. The work will be on display from today until 20 September 2015 in the inner courtyard of the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence. Promoted by the Gallery […]

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4 May 2015
Italy-USA – More cooperation to fight counterfeiting

“Fighting Counterfeits: Future challenges and Cooperation between the US & Italy” is the title of a seminar organised by the Italian Embassy in Washington in collaboration with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, INTERPOL Secretary-General and several firms that find themselves continually affected by the phenomenon. Read more, in Italian.

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29 April 2015
Italy-Canada – Cooperation growing in the field of medicine

Italian ambassador to Canada Gian Lorenzo Cornado visited the Canada-Italy Tissue Engineering Laboratory (Citel) at St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, which has been cooperating with the University of Rome at Tor Vergata since the signing of an accord in 2010. At the centre, Cornado met with Hospital directors, with whom he confirmed the laboratory’s importance […]

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21 April 2015
Washington

Focus on the economy and Eurozone Stability ‎ The European Monetary Union and the proposed Banking Union and Capital Markets Union, as part of the design to strengthen the financial stability of the Eurozone, were the focus of a seminar organized by the Embassy of Italy in Washington in collaboration with FeBAF (the Italian Banking, […]

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21 April 2015
Washington – Focus su economia e stabilità dell’Eurozona

I temi dell’Unione monetaria europea, del progetto di Unione bancaria e di Unione del mercato dei capitali nella prospettiva del rafforzamento della stabilita’ finanziaria dell’Eurozona. Sono questi i temi al centro di un seminario organizzato dall’ambasciata d’Italia a Washington, in collaborazione con Federazione italiana Banche Assicurazioni e Finanza (Febaf) e il “Bretton Woods Committee”. Tra […]

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8 April 2015
Canada – Italian sound-tracks to feature at Festival Cinema du Monde

A selection of Italian film soundtracks will feature at the 2nd Festival Cinema du Monde de Sherbrooke, in Canada, in a performance on 11 April 2015 by pianist Enzo De Rosa, accompanied by soprano Isabelle Metwalli. During the performance, scenes from the films – such as “La Strada”, “Il Gattopardo”, “Il Postino”, “La vita è […]

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1 April 2015
Italy-USA Mutual recognition by airworthiness authorities

Lieutenant General Francesco Langella (Director of DAAA – Air Armaments and Airworthiness Directorate) has signed an agreement with his U.S counterpart, Brig. Gen. Timothy Gowen, on the mutual recognition of authorities between their respective military agencies. Lieutenant General Langella was acting in his capacity of national director for the airworthiness of all military aircraft and […]

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Press Releases
30 March 2015
Directors appointed at Italian Cultural Institutes in London, Moscow and New York

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni, has appointed new directors at three key Italian Cultural Institutes abroad. The appointment procedure took into account candidates’ renown and repute, and was based on the work of a commission that included representatives from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Ministry for […]

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30 March 2015
Montreal – Cinema, i classici italiani pronti a incantare il Canada

Da Pietro Germi a Francesco Rosi, da Bernardo Bertolucci a Mario Monicelli: al Festival Cinéma du Monde di Sherbrooke, in Canada, sarà presente una selezione di film italiani dal titolo Classique du Cinéma Italienne (9-12 aprile), grazie alla collaborazione tra gli organizzatori del Festival e l’Istituto italiano di cultura di Montréal. Nell’ambito della manifestazione, che […]

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20 March 2015
Washington – Italian food traditions take centre stage

Ahead of opening of the 2015 Milan EXPO, the Embassy of Italy in the United States organised two conferences in Washington for celebrated Italian food history and cuisine expert Francine Segan: one at the Library of Congress, the world’s largest library, where Segan will speak about traditions and innovations in Italian gastronomy. The other will […]

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