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13 June 2013
The Farnesina opens its doors to contemporary Irish art

The Farnesina opens its doors to contemporary Irish art. The “40/40/40” exhibition, consisting of works from the Irish State Collection, opens here at the Foreign Ministry today, Thursday 13 June 2013. The exhibition was organised by the Irish Embassy in Italy, the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the Office of Public Works. […]

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Interviews
10 June 2013
Intervista al Ministro Bonino (derStardard.at) (versione originale)

Italiens Außenministerin: EU stärkt Souveränität der Partnerländer Rom/Wien – In jedem Wahlkampf warnen populistische Parteien in ganz Europa vor einem Verlust der eigenen Souveränität durch die EU – ein Gedanke, für den Italiens neue Außen­ministerin Emma Bonino nichts übrighat: “Wir müssen realistisch sein: Heutzutage kann kein europäisches Land wirklich glauben, alles selbst machen zu können”, […]

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Interviews
10 June 2013
Intervista al Ministro Bonino (derStardard.at) (versione originale)

Italiens Außenministerin: EU stärkt Souveränität der Partnerländer Rom/Wien – In jedem Wahlkampf warnen populistische Parteien in ganz Europa vor einem Verlust der eigenen Souveränität durch die EU – ein Gedanke, für den Italiens neue Außen­ministerin Emma Bonino nichts übrighat: “Wir müssen realistisch sein: Heutzutage kann kein europäisches Land wirklich glauben, alles selbst machen zu können”, […]

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7 June 2013
BUSINESS – Infrastructure, energy, tourism: large-scale projects in Serbia and Montenegro

Infrastructure, energy, tourism are the main economic development aspects currently concerning Serbia and Monenegro, two nations geographically and traditionally linked with Italy and that are also EU candidate countries. These three sectors, and investment opportunities in the Balkans in general, were the central focus of a business mission organised in recent weeks by Confindustria in […]

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Press Releases
6 June 2013
Foreign Minister Emma Bonino meets with Elisabeth Guigou, President of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the French National Assembly

Foreign Minister Emma Bonino met today with President of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the French National Assembly Elisabeth Guigou. Their discussions concerned international and European current events. Ahead of the June European Council, Minister Bonino and Elisabeth Guigou reviewed, first and foremost, the need to effectively link economic recovery with growth, fully agreeing on […]

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Interviews
6 June 2013
Bonino: «Europe is confused. I’m not » (Tempi)

“When they called me I was in Egypt, and thought I had retired”. According to her, Emma Bonino had no idea she would be called upon to be Minister for Foreign Affairs on the cusp of turning 65. Her curriculum vitae is a full one. While her political activism and civil rights advocacy in Italy […]

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Interviews
5 June 2013
Bonino: «The EU must speak up, Turkish democracy is at stake» (Il Mattino)

Water cannons trained directly at people, demonstrators forced to seek asylum at Amnesty International offices in Istanbul and Ankara, a tragic death toll and the seat of Premier Erdogan’s government party in blazes: Are we facing a new crisis of democracy in Turkey? Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino seems to be ruling out the […]

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3 June 2013
LONGITUDE: “Falling on deaf ears”

La drammatica situazione in Siria, con l’analisi di Stefano Stefanini, l’arroccamento del presidente Assad, sordo, nonostante la forte pressione internazionale, ad un sia pur minimo dialogo, come è plasticamente descritto nella foto di copertina, è il tema centrale del nuovo numero della rivista “Longitude”, diretta da Pialuisa Bianco, dal 3 giugno in edicola. L’altro tema […]

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3 June 2013
LONGITUDE: “Falling on deaf ears”

The dramatic Syrian crisis, in an analysis by Stefano Stefanini that touches on President Assad’s stiff resistance to even the most minimal dialogue, is the central theme of the new issue of “Longitude”, the geo-political magazine directed by Pialuisa Bianco, on newsstands as of 3 June, whose main topics also include world finance, the “case […]

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30 May 2013
Croatia enters the EU – An Italian welcome with Caravaggio

Caravaggio’s masterpiece from 1606, The Supper at Emmaus, will be on loan for nearly three months to the Museum of Art and Crafts in Zagreb. The loan is being promoted by the Foreign Ministry and by the Italian Embassy in Croatia, with strong personal support from Ambassador Emanuela D’Alessandro. The painting, normally housed in the […]

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Press Releases
29 May 2013
MFA Secretary General Michele Valensise in consultations with Turkish Foreign Ministry Secretary General, Feridun Sinirlioglu.

Economic relations between Italy and Turkey and between businesses in the two countries, relations with the European Union and the situation in the Mediterranean. These were the topics discussed in consultations between the Secretary General of the Italian Foreign Ministry, Michele Valensise, and the Secretary General of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Feridun Sinirlioglu. The talks […]

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