Meeting of Minister Moavero Milanesi with the United Nations Special Representative for Libya
Today at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation is holding a meeting with Ghassan Salamè, United Nations Special Representative for Libya. Watch the Press Conference live.
Read moreItaly’s Economic Diplomacy 19 April: Latest News from the World
TUNISIA – Italian-Tunisian Business Forum is scheduled to take place at the end of April in TunisA Business Forum dedicated to cooperation between Italy and Tunisia will be held in Tunis during the next Italian-Tunisian intergovernmental summit, scheduled for 29 and 30 April. The event is organized by the Italian Trade Agency – ICE, Confindustria […]
Read moreDuty Only, Beyond Duty – Stories of four diplomats who, in the face of the Holocaust, chose to resist
Four diplomats chose to resist and to not surrender to the Holocaust. The figures of Guelfo Zamboni, Giuseppe Castruccio, Gustavo Orlandini and Roberto Venturini emerge from the documents gathered for the exhibition entitled ‘Duty Only, Beyond Duty. Italian diplomacy in the face of the persecution of Jews. 1938-1943’. While many diplomats abided by the new […]
Read moreMinister Moavero Milanesi meets with the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean Yves Le Drian
Today, a meeting is being held at the Farnesina between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, and the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean Yves Le Drian. A joint press point by the two ministers is scheduled at the end of the meeting.
Read moreVancouver: the Italian Research Day in the World
On 16 April 2019, the Italian Cultural Centre in Vancouver hosted the 2nd edition of the Italian Research Day in the World, a celebration that is part of the promotional programme of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation entitled “The Italian Way of Life“. ARPICO (the Association of Italian Researchers and Professionals in […]
Read moreHearing of the Director General for Italians Abroad, Luigi Maria Vignali, before the Chamber of Deputies
The Director General for Italians Abroad, Luigi Maria Vignali, was heard today in a hearing before the Standing Committee on Italians in the World and Cultural and Economic Promotion and Innovation chaired by Hon. Simone Billi. At the hearing, the Director General listed the Foreign Ministry’s priorities for the ever-growing number of Italians residing abroad, […]
Read moreSecretary General, Elisabetta Belloni, visits the exhibition “Only duty. Beyond duty: Italian diplomacy in the face of the persecution of the Jews. 1938-1943.”
The Secretary General of the Farnesina, Ambassador Elisabetta Belloni, accompanied by the President of the Jewish Community of Rome, Ruth Dureghello, by the President of the Union of Jewish Communities in Italy, Noemi Di Segni and by the Holocaust survivor, Sami Modiano, today visited the exhibition “Only duty. Beyond duty. Italian diplomacy in the face […]
Read moreTask Force for Disputed Minors
Today the Farnesina hosted the second meeting in 2019 of the Task Force for Disputed Minors. The meeting was held at the Directorate General for Italians Abroad and was attended, as is customary, by the senior officials of the Ministry of Justice – the Central Authority designated in compliance with the 1980 Hague Convention on […]
Read moreItaly’s Economic Diplomacy, 18 April: latest news from the world
The city of Genoa on mission to Warsaw The Italian Embassy in Warsaw held a meeting on 16 April to promote the city of Genoa before a selected audience of Polish professionals operating in the tourist sector, maritime shipping logistics and the silver economy. Organised in partnership with the ICE Agency, the local ENIT broadcaster, […]
Read moreApplause for the Sanremo Giovani World Tour and Mahmood in Brussels
Cheering and excitement in a sold-out auditorium: Brussels bid farewell to the finalists of Sanremo Giovani on the last stop of their World Tour, organised by the Foreign Ministry in cooperation with Rai, which featured seven concerts across five continents. The most eagerly-anticipated guest in the capital of Europe was the winner of the last […]
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