UNDP and Italian Embassy signed an agreement on Digital Skills Programme
United 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 – based on feedback provided […]
Read moreMountains and climate change: the “Italian Routes” exhibition comes to Peja
The 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, in the presence of Ambassador Antonello De Riu and the Mayor of […]
Read moreConference of Italian Ambassadors, De Riu: «Investment opportunities for our businesses in Kosovo»
“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 […]
Read moreMinister Tajani at the Conference of Italian Ambassadors: «The Balkans, an opportunity and a necessity»
“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 […]
Read morePristina welcomes “La Traviata” with open arms and roaring applause. Italian Ambassador De Riu: “Culture, a tool for peace”
Last 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 […]
Read more“La Traviata” and those timeless love questions. In Pristina the eternal opera of Verdi
“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 operas. ‘La Traviata’ speaks about love, the contradictory feeling […]
Read moreItalian FM Tajani: “Western Balkans, we should speed up the EU integration process”
«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 Kosovo: the situation […]
Read more25 November: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Farnesina and its foreign network fully join the awareness-raising campaign “UNITE! Activism to End Violence against Women & Girls. Orange the World: End Violence against Women Now!”, promoted by UN Women, which in 2022 focuses on the fundamental contribution given by movements, organisations […]
Read moreMission to Kosovo of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs Tajani and of Defense Crosetto
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Antonio Tajani and the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto visited Belgrade and Pristina, to meet with the Presidents of the Republic and the Prime Ministers of Serbia and Kosovo, as well as with their respective Foreign and Defence counterparts. Appealing to the sense […]
Read moreThe Recipes of Dialogue. Week of Italian Cuisine in Kosovo (14-20 November, 2022)
Food is passion, tradition, innovation, but it is also – and above all – culture. For this reason, it can become a powerful tool to promote dialogue. This is what the Italian Embassy in Kosovo believes in, therefore for the “Week of Italian Cuisine in the World” (14-20 November) it presented a calendar of events […]
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