Italy-Bosnia: workshop on eco-sustainable building
“Building while respecting the environment, saving energy and improving the quality of citizens’ lives – these are the challenges that Italian and Bosnian professionals and experts are facing as they attempt to make our cities more livable and raise awareness among the younger generations”, asserted Italian Ambassador Ruggiero Corrias as he joined ICE Director for […]
Read moreExpo 2015 – UN signs on – indispensable, says Bonino
The United Nations will be a participant in the 2015 Milan EXPO, thanks to the contract signed today at FAO by EXPO Commissioner Giuseppe Slala and Deputy Director of FAO Eduardo Rojas Briales. “Truly a major step”, Minister for Foreign Affair Emma Bonino called it. The UN system’s participation in the EXPO was “an absolutely […]
Read moreDiplomazia Economica Italiana – 14 November: Latest World News compiled in collaboration with Il Sole 24 ORE Radiocor – Australia: Government of Victoria reconsiders shale gas
Australia: Government of Victoria reconsiders shale gas The government of the State of Victoria is getting ready to examine an ad hoc technical report that proposes to issue new exploration licenses and to either eliminate or limit a moratorium on “fracking” dating to late 2012. While he awaits the report’s complete examination, Minister for Energy […]
Read moreLithuania – Mission handover ceremony
The foreign ministry held a ceremony for the symbolic handover to representatives of the Lithuanian government of a floor in Palazzo Blumensthil to be used as the diplomatic mission of Vilnius in Italy, in accordance with an Italo-Lithuanian agreement signed in February 2013 that went into effect in September of this year, and which grants […]
Read moreDubai – Italian artisanship and luxury on display
The third edition of Italian Luxury Interiors, which opened in Dubai on 11 November, will come to a close on Thursday the 14th. The 34 Italian firms participating exhibited a vast selection of high quality home furnishings, all exclusively Made in Italy. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreMorocco – Rabat remembers Fellini
The third edition of CineItalia in Rabat featured a film series dedicated to Federico Fellini on the 20th anniversary of his death. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreBonino, inviata missione Unita’ di crisi Farnesina (in translation)
Per contrastare i devastanti effetti del tifone Haiyan “l’Italia c’è, si è mossa in tempo” e ha già stanziato circa un milione di euro in aiuti. E’ quanto ha assicurato il Vice Ministro Lapo Pistelli al termine di una riunione sull’emergenza Filippine svoltasi questa mattina presso la Direzione Generale per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo della […]
Read moreBaku – Italo-Azerbaigian forum on oil, gas and infrastructure
The Italo-Azerbaigian economic forum, organised by the Embassy of Italy, the ICE, Confindustria, ANCE and Federprojetti, took place in Baku. Participants included 133 Italian representatives of 75 oil, gas, infrastructure and construction firms. Read more, in Italian.
Read morePhilippines – Italy sends typhoon aid to Red Cross
With the intention of providing humanitarian assistance to 100,000 families (500,000 persons) for 18 months, Italy made a new multilateral contribution of €350,000 to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies following the Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, which falls within its broader plan of one million euro in overall aid. Read […]
Read moreExpo 2015 – Bonino cites EXPO on women’s leadership
“The role of women in EXPO 2015 will not be a marginalo ne. Our ambition is that this is the first Expo on women’s leadership”, saud Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino in the margins of the “Women in Diplomacy” event held yesterday evening at Villa Madama. Expo 2015: like the 1960 Rome Olympics , […]
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