Dei/Sole 24 Ore – Construction: 9.5 billion in turnover for Italian firms in 2013 (+ 8.6% annually)
The high levels of technology achieved, along with intense economic diplomacy efforts, have led over the past year to doubling the value of contracts awarded in G20 countries, markets notoriously more competitive and difficult to penetrate. The new contracts awarded in 2013 in this area surpassed the 8 billion euro mark to account for 46% […]
Read moreFarnesina: Under-Secretary Della Vedova closes conference on Western Balkans
Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs BenedettoDella Vedova delivered the closing address at today’s Western Balkans conference organised by the NATO Defence College Foundation, the Delegation for the Italian Presidency of the Council of the EU and the Balkan Trust for Democracy. Speakers at the four conference sessions (regional cooperation, Serbian-Kosovo relations, the Western Balkans’ European and […]
Read moreFarnesina: presentato il Rapporto Ance 2014 – Comunicato congiunto
Italian construction firms were awarded a full 17 billion euro in foreign contracts over the past year, making 2013 the ninth consecutive growth year on foreign markets: + 8.6%. Turnover from 2004 through 2013 has tripled (+206%) from 3 to over 9.5 billion euro, and currently represents 60% of the total. The data emerged […]
Read moreAzerbaijan: Della Vedova attends Baku Forum. Freedom and Rights must complement globalisation
At the invitation of the Azerbaijani Government, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Benedetto Della Vedova, spoke today at a round table on “Challenges of Globalisation: between tradition and transformation”. “Globalisation has a economic dimension that is clear but which must be complemented in the sphere of freedom and individual rights. Each country enters the globalisation […]
Read moreM.O.: Farnesina, nuovi insediamenti Gerusalemme ostacolo su via pace
Israel’s decision to build 2160 homes at Givat Hamatos, near Jerusalem, is an obstacle to the efforts to reach a definitive solution to a conflict that has already affected, if not broken, the lives of too many generations. It is a provision that appears incompatible with the Israeli Government’s several times reiterated intention to reach […]
Read moreThe UN and the world’s water resources: Italy-UNESCO collaboration
The work of the United National Nations World Water Assessment Programme (UN WWAP) will be illustrated tomorrow, 3 October 2014, at the Chamber of Deputies in Rome. The UN’s World Water Development Report 2014, Water and Energy, will be presented during the event. Those attending the event, organised at the initiative of the Under-Secretary for […]
Read moreUNESCO Forum, Florence. “In a world that seems to be degenerating into extremism or crises, the escape routes from the idea of an inevitable clash and decline are culture and creativity”, says Under-Secretary Giro
“We must never forget that the places of creative production, places that cradle the meaning of a community, are important to development. They are the places where today’s reality, difficult, crisis-ridden and violent as it may be, can be transformed in the imagined future”. This was the comment by Under-Secretary Mario Giro, speaking at the […]
Read moreItaly-Azerbaijan: Della Vedova meets Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister in Baku
The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Benedetto Della Vedova, met the Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, Khalav Khalafov, in Baku today. Their friendly discussion focused on developing the strategic partnership opened by Prime Minister Renzi and the Azerbaijani President, Aliyev, in Rome in July 2014. “Building on our very important and well-established relationship in the energy […]
Read moreIran: Mogherini, appello madre Reyhaneh sia ascoltato anche in Iran
Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini has given an assurance of her commitment to the case of Reyhaneh Jabbari, the young Iranian condemned to death. “The appeal by Reyhaneh’s mother cannot leave us unmoved”, she said. “Italy, by tradition, is opposed to the death penalty and we have been campaigning for years in the United Nations on […]
Read moreHong Kong: Dialogue needed for agreed solution, says Farnesina
We are following events in Hong Kong very closely and hope that, in response to the peaceful demands of so many citizens, the authorities there and in mainland China show wisdom and willingness to listen. A dialogue should be opened to reach an agreed solution that responds to the legitimate aspirations of those asking for […]
Read more