Italy aims at bringing Kosovo closer to Italian culture and business, in the perspective of its European integration. This was stated by the Italian Ambassador to Kosovo, Antonello De Riu, speaking at the national conference held in Trieste on 'Italy and the Western Balkans: growth and integration'. Italy is Kosovo's fifth largest trading partner and is pursuing...
Read moreIl destino dell’Europa in questi mesi si sta giocando, drammaticamente, attorno all’Ucraina. Ma il futuro del nostro continente è legato anche a quanto avverrà nei Balcani Occidentali. La storia ci insegna l’importanza strategica che questa regione riveste per la nostra sicurezza. E le ...
Read moreUnited Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Kosovo and the Embassy of Italy to Kosovo signed today an agreement to collaborate in support of youth from all ethnic communities to improve their employability through a range of tailor-made digital skills trainings. To address the digital skills gap in the job market -...
Read moreThe exhibition “Italian Routes. Mountains, mountaineering, climate change”, curated by landscape photographer Fabiano Ventura and promoted by Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the Italian Embassy to Kosovo and the Italian Cultural Institute of Tirana, has come to Peja. The inauguration...
Read more"Italy supports the European Union's efforts to find a solution that aims at normalization of relations between Serbia and Kosovo, but our role is also important in the framework of the NATO Mission that our country has led 13 times out of 27, with a military contingent of almost 800 men". This was said by the Italian Ambassador to Kosovo, Antonello De Riu, on...
Read more"The Balkans represent both an opportunity and a necessity for Italy. They are strategic for a series of reasons, such as migration, but the latter is not the main one. It is an area that borders our country and we have pushed with other countries in order to grant Bosnia Herzegovina the status of EU candidate. We are in favour of accelerating the accession times...
Read moreLast night in Pristina almost 15 minutes of applause greeted the premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata, conducted by the Bulgarian director Nayden Todorov and supported by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Embassy to Kosovo as part of the 2022 cultural programme. Over a thousand spectators flocked to the Spots Hall "1 Tetori"(1 October)...
Read moreThe Italian research center Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, operated as an international multidisciplinary user facility, featuring a 2.0/2.4 GeV third-generation synchrotron light source (Elettra), a free-electron laser light source (FERMI) and a variety of support laboratories, published the call: "Western Balkans initiative at Elettra: Scientists from Western...
Read more“Di quell’amor ch’è palpito | dell’universo intero, | misterioso, altero, | croce e delizia al cor.” This is probably the verse that encapsulates the insightful meaning of one of the most popular Italian operas of all time and, not surprisingly, one of the absolutely most performed ope...
Read moreThe Embassies of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States and the EU Office/ EUSR welcome the decision by the Kosovan government and the political party leaders to postpone the municipal and mayoral elections in the four northern municipalities at this time. This constructive decision advances efforts...
Read moreVolontari nel Mondo- RTM NGO (RTM) is looking for an in-country external consultant/company to undertake the finalevaluation of the three-years Project PEDAKOS – Preschool Education Development Alliance for Kosovo AID011860 (1September 2019 – 15 February 2023) funded by Italian Development Agency AICS. The project has the general objective of su...
Read more«The Balkans should not become the new Libya. They are very close to us, are crossed by important migratory flows and are objects of interest and influence by non-allied powers. We need to oversee the situation to strengthen democracy in those countries and prevent the worsening of new crises between Serbia and Ko...
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