Messaggio dell’Ambasciatore Armando Varricchio in occasione della Festa della Repubblica

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Care e cari connazionali, amici italo-americani

Nel celebrare oggi il 72mo anniversario della Repubblica ricordiamo la scelta di libertà che le Italiane e gli Italiani effettuarono il 2 giugno 1946. Una scelta che ha consentito al nostro Paese di incamminarsi sulla strada della democrazia e del progresso nell’alveo transatlantico ed europeo.

Amb Varricchio speaking at the White House’s celebration of Italy’s Republic Day

Quest’anno ricorre anche il 70mo anniversario della nostra Carta Costituzionale, i cui principi ispiratori continuano a guidare il nostro Paese. Saldamente ancorato a questi valori, il rapporto tra Stati Uniti ed Italia ha continuato a crescere e a rafforzarsi sotto ogni profilo, in ogni disciplina e campo di attività.

Lo dimostrano lo stretto raccordo tra i nostri Governi e a tutti i livelli l’impegno comune per la per la pace e la sicurezza, per la promozione dello sviluppo, dei diritti umani e di un ordine internazionale basato su regole liberamente condivise.

Ma soprattutto ne sono chiara testimonianza la forza e la vivacità delle relazioni culturali, sociali e economiche di cui siete protagonisti. Nell’incontravi nei numerosi viaggi che ho effettuato attraverso il Paese, ho potuto toccare con mano come la vostra determinazione e il vostro impegno, uniti all’amore per l’Italia e per l’America, rappresentino il motore di un rapporto che è unico al mondo, vero e proprio volano di crescita e prosperità. In ogni angolo degli Stati Uniti, la professionalità, la creatività, la cultura e la lingua italiane godono di una stima particolare. Quest’anno, con la partecipazione alle elezioni politiche in Italia, avete dato un ulteriore, importante contributo alle nostre istituzioni democratiche.

Cari amici,

rappresentate un patrimonio prezioso per l’Italia e per la nostra profonda amicizia con gli Stati Uniti. Su tali solide fondamenta continueremo a lavorare insieme per costruire rapporti ancora più intensi e articolati e opportunita’ per i nostri giovani.

È con quest’auspicio che rivolgo a tutti voi e alle vostre famiglie l’augurio più affettuoso di una buona Festa della Repubblica.

Viva l’Italia. Viva gli Stati Uniti.

Italian-American club celebrates 100th anniversary in Rockford – MYSTATELINE

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The Saint Ambrogio Society Club celebrated its 100th anniversary on Saturday. The Saint Ambrogio Society began as a club exclusive to those Italian-Americans who migrated to America from the Ferentino region of Italy, but today opens its doors to all peoples and cultures.

Source: Italian-American club celebrates 100th anniversary in Rockford – MYSTATELINE

Italian wine exports: numbers and considerations | DoctorWine

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The latest data on Italian wine exports show that they have not been able to break the threshold of six billion euros in value. But even at 5.989 billion euros they were a good result compared to 5.623 billion euros in 2016, representing an increase of around 6%. On the downside, if there is one, is that the lion’s share continues to go to the three leading importers of Italian wine: the United States, Germany and Britain that continue to account for 53% of exports. Downside because the prospects are not good, in a least two of them, due to Brexit and the protectionist policies of the Trump Administration.

Source: Italian wine exports: numbers and considerations | DoctorWine

Vinitaly Brings Italy’s Wine Superstars to Verona 

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Vinitaly, Italy’s annual wine and spirits trade fair, kicked off April 14 with OperaWine, a tasting presenting 107 of Italy’s top wine producers, selected by Wine Spectator.

Held at Verona’s historic Palazzo della Gran Guardia, the seventh edition of OperaWine drew more than 2,000 invited guests from around the world, including American restaurateur and vintner Joe Bastianich, and Argentina’s Alejandro Bulgheroni, who has recently amassed a stable of wine estates on four continents, including some Italian properties.

Source: Vinitaly Brings Italy’s Wine Superstars to Verona | News | News & Features | Wine Spectator

Brera Modern to open after Palazzo Citterio revamp – English – ANSA.it

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Some 40 years of vicissitudes later, Palazzo Citterio will become part of the Brera Art Gallery with its over 6,500 square meters of modern and contemporary art. The official handover to museum director James Bradburne is expected to come in June after all the various systems installed have been tested, the culture ministry’s Lombardy region museum chief Marco Minoja said during the presentation of the restoration. Then the Brera Modern will begin being set up, with twentieth-century collections from the art gallery and such works as Carlo Carrà’s ‘Allegory of Work’, which the ministry purchased last year.

Source: Brera Modern to open after Palazzo Citterio revamp – English – ANSA.it

Annual report on migration to Italy reveals increasing difficulties for those in need – Vatican News

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Less migrants and refugees are setting foot in Italy than in previous years but they face greater difficulties in having their requests for protection processed and in integrating into society.

This is one of the findings of the annual report presented on Monday in Rome by the Jesuit-run Centro Astalli that offers assistance and accompaniment to refugees and forced migrants.

 

Source: Annual report on migration to Italy reveals increasing difficulties for those in need – Vatican News

‘Once we’re dead, we’re dead’: Dolce and Gabbana say label will die with them

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“Once we’re dead, we’re dead. I don’t want a Japanese designer to start designing Dolce & Gabbana,” Gabbana, 55, said in an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

Dolce, 59, added that the pair had refused “every offer to buy the brand”.

“You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not free, what do you do? You don’t go to the grave with a coffin stuffed with money,” he said.

Source: ‘Once we’re dead, we’re dead’: Dolce and Gabbana say label will die with them

Vintage election meddling: Italian-Americans urge relatives to vote against communism in 1948

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In 1948, the United States worried Italians would vote socialist in the country’s upcoming election. Thousands of Central New York Italian-Americans wrote letters to their native home urging them not to.

With the Cold War heating up, both the United States and the Soviet Union sent bags of money to the Italian political party they favored. (By its own admission, the CIA gave $1 million to Italy’s “center parties.”)

American agencies funded the publishing of books, made numerous short-wave radio broadcasts and wrote millions of letters to help influence the election.

Source: Vintage election meddling: Italian-Americans urge relatives to vote against communism in 1948