Workshop “Internazionalizzazione e Crescita – AmCham e Simest: l’unione fa la forza”
Lunedì 28 gennaio 2013 si è tenuto il Workshop "Internazionalizzazione e Crescita – AmCham e Simest: l'unione fa la forza" a Salerno alle ore 10.00 e a Napoli alle ore 17.00. L'evento puntava a mettere in luce il ruolo che l'American Chamber of Commerce in Italy può avere nel favorire i rapporti, le relazioni, la creazione di partnership e future c...
Proroga mostra "Partono i Bastimenti" Cosenza – Palazzo Arnone fino al 27 ottobre 2013
A seguito del grande successo di pubblico e per consentire agli studenti di poter visitare un'esposizione interessante e coinvolgente, la mostra Partono i Bastimenti, allestita a Palazzo Arnone in Cosenza, sede della Soprintendenza per i Beni Storici, Artistici ed Etnoantropologici della Calabria e della Galleria Nazionale di Cosenza, prolungherà l...
Exports Spell Success for Italian Firms
Italian exports in the glass sector continue to grow; most recently, thanks to companies in the field of flat glass. According to Eurostat, in the first six months of 2013 Italy captured first place among exporting countries within the EU. It is no secret that approximately 80% of the turnover of Italy's manufacturers of machines and accessories f...
Europe-US trade talks delay upsets Italy
Italy has sounded the alarm over the pace of Europe's landmark trade negotiations with the US, warning that they are in danger of failure unless negotiators can secure an agreement by the end of next year. Carlo Calenda, Rome's trade envoy and vice-minister for economic development, said that only weeks remained to make a "fresh start" and rescue...
Italy celebrating the 50th anniversary of the launch of its first satellite
by Claudia Astarita In December 1964, first Italian satellite San Marco-1 was launched from the Nasa base in Wallops Island, in Virginia, on the east coast of the United States. This achievement made Italy the third country – after the Soviet Union and the US – to send a satellite into the space. The 1970s were a period of economi...
Retaking Rome with Virginia Vitalone
American expats in Rome hear the same question all the time from fellow Americans visiting the Eternal City: "Rome is SOOO beautiful! But why is there so much trash and graffiti around? Don't the Romans care about their amazing city?" Well, the answer is complicated and I admit that it's hard for me to understand, too. But today on my podc...
Finding an Italian Family in a Handwritten Note
by Kerry-Lynne Demarinis Alison Greene is four-foot-something with a gregarious personality, dark eyes, curly hair and a quick smile. You like her as soon as you meet her. I first met Alison at a meeting for an Italian memorial in Portland, where she intrigued me with the admission that she had discovered she was Italian only 8 years ago....
15 reasons why you should go to Portofino
by Claudia Baroncelli "A small village, Portofino, stretches crescent shaped along the edge of this calm bay" these are the words French writer Guy de Maupassant used to describe the charming and peaceful town of Portofino in 1889, a real piece of heaven on earth on the wonderful Tigullio gulf. Best known for its picturesque port,...
A Roma la presentazione del Rapporto 2015 della Migrantes
Il Rapporto Italiani nel Mondo della Fondazione Migrantes giunge, nel 2015, alla decima edizione. Ben 53 autori, dall'Italia e dall'estero, hanno lavorato a 50 diversi saggi articolati in cinque sezioni: Flussi e presenze; La prospettiva storica; Indagini, riflessioni ed esperienze contemporanee; Speciale: Eventi e Mestieri; Allegati socio-statisti...
Monica Bellucci, an Italian Bond Lady for 007
by Jonathan Bazzi On the cover with Daniel Craig in a beautiful photo taken by the great Rankin, Monica Bellucci is more enchanting than ever. The photo immortalises the magnificent couple in Spectre, the highly anticipated new film recounting the latest escapades of English secret agent James Bond, filmed in London, Rome, Mexico City, the Alps an...
Paolo Sorrentino wins European Oscars with Youth
Youth, Paolo Sorrentino's first feature length endeavour since his crowning glory and Oscar winning masterpiece The Great Beauty, is a touching reflection on creativity, the passing of time and those eternal subjects like the friendship which unites a director (Harvey Keitel) and a composer (Michael Caine), the difficult relationship between father...
Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea) wins Golden Bear for best film in Berlin
by Michael Roddy Gianfranco Rosi's "Fuocoammare" (Fire at Sea), about the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean off the Italian island of Lampedusa, won the Golden Bear prize for Best Film at the Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday. The Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize went to "Smrt u Sarajevu" (Death in Sarajevo) and its dir...