Asia e Oceania

Press Releases

3 May 2024

Mongolia – Caravaggio exhibition inaugurated

The Director General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) Alessandro De Pedys and the Italian Ambassador to Mongolia Giovanna Piccarreta today inaugurated the first exhibition of Caravaggio’s works in Mongolia at the Genghis Khan Museum in Ulanbataar. The event was attended by Mongolia’s Minister of […]

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Diplomatic Network

3 May 2024

Sydney – investment attraction initiative launched for Australia and New Zealand

The Italian Ambassador to Australia, Paolo Crudele, and the Director of the Italian Trade Agency in Sydney, Simona Bernardini, presented to a qualified group of guests a new initiative to support Foreign Direct Investments. The aim is to attract Australian and New Zealand economic operators and facilitate their investments in Italy. The launch event was […]

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Cultural Diplomacy

16 April 2024

Shanghai, “National Forum on the Renaissance”

The Italian Cultural Institute in Shanghai, in cooperation with Italy’s Consulate General in Shanghai and the Faculty of Humanities at Tongji University, presented the 11th “National Forum on the Renaissance”. The Forum, held at the Shanghai Library East on 13 and 14 April, organised several workshops to orient Chinese researchers towards a more in-depth study […]

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Events

15 April 2024

Country Presentation – Tajikistan

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, in cooperation with ICE Agenzia, organises the “Country Presentation” dedicated to Tajikistan. The event will be held on 24 April 2024, from 10.00 a.m. (registration of participants starts at 9.30 a.m.), at the headquarters of ICE Agenzia (Via Liszt 21, Rome). The initiative aims to illustrate to […]

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Interviews

12 April 2024

Tajani: China is a strategic partner for Italy (MF)

A new season opens with regard to business relations with China. Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Antonio Tajani had already assured that leaving the Silk Road would not compromise channels with China – on the contrary, it would allow bilateral cooperation to be further developed and strengthened. In December 2023, the decision […]

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In detail

12 April 2024

Minister Antonio Tajani opens the Italy-China Business and Dialogue Forum

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, and the Minister of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China, Wang Wentao, will open the proceedings of the Italy-China Business and Dialogue Forum at Veronafiere. In addition to Minister Tajani and Minister Wang, representatives of the Italian Trade Agency (ICE), of Confindustria and of their […]

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In detail

11 April 2024

Press conference by Minister Antonio Tajani following the conclusion of the Italy-China Joint Economic Committee

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, holds a press conference following the conclusion of the Italy-China Joint Economic Committee (Commissione Economica Mista, CEM). The Italy-China Joint Economic Committee (CEM) is the main instrument for economic and trade cooperation with China and is one of the dialogue mechanisms of the […]

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In detail

11 April 2024

Minister Antonio Tajani chairs the Italy-China Joint Economic Committee

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, chairs the Italy-China Joint Economic Committee (Commissione Economica Mista, CEM) together with the Minister of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China, Wang Wentao, at the Prefecture Palace in Verona (Palazzo del Potestà). The Italy-China Joint Economic Committee (CEM) is the main instrument for economic […]

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Press Releases

10 April 2024

Tajani to meet China’s Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao in Venice and Verona – Italy-China Joint Economic Committee and Business and Dialogue Forum (11-12 April 2024)

Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, will receive the Minister of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China, Wang Wentao, in Venice tomorrow. Together they will attend an event commemorating the figure of Marco Polo, which will take place at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice on […]

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Diplomatic Network

9 April 2024

Tokyo, the Embassy opens the “House of Italian Design” to the public

In order to mark the National Made in Italy Day, on April 15 the Italian Embassy in Tokyo will open to the public  the “House of Italian Design”’, the first permanent exhibition of Italian industrial design at an Italian Embassy abroad. The initiative, strongly supported by Ambassador Gianluigi Benedetti and curated by architects Matteo Belfiore […]

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Cultural Diplomacy

28 March 2024

China, Ballet Company of Teatro alla Scala concludes tour

Five years after its last performance in China, the Ballet Company of Teatro alla Scala in Milan has finally returned to China for a long-awaited tour. On three different evenings (15, 16 and 17 March) it performed in Hong Kong with Le Corsaire, a ballet in three acts based on the poem The Corsair by […]

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Diplomatic Network

26 March 2024

Australia, Ambassador Crudele remembered Italian prisoners in Cowra

The Ambassador of Italy to Australia, Paolo Crudele, officially opened the 2024 Festival of International Understanding in Cowra, a town in New South Wales where – from 1941 until the end of the Second World War – thousands of Italian prisoners of war were interned. Accompanied by the Military Attaché, Col. Marco Bertoli, and by […]

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